The visit of the Ukrainian delegation, headed by the country’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko, began in Washington, the Ukrainian Presidential Office reported on its Telegram channel.
It was noted that the first meeting took place with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustam Umerov, together with the head of the office of Ukrainian President Andrey Ermak, met with the Pentagon chief and discussed the situation on the front lines and the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The previous day, CNN reported that Ermak and Umerov would hold a meeting with representatives of the administration of US President Joe Biden. They I will try Convince the American side to lift restrictions on strikes deep into Russian territory with long-range US weapons.
According to a CNN source, Kiev plans to present Washington with a list of “priority targets” that would “be difficult to change the course of military operations against Ukraine.”
August 28, Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry statedThe US is prepared to give Kiev a free hand to use Western weapons to attack Russian territory.
Previously in Britain statedThe West has “handcuffed” Ukraine.
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Source: Gazeta
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