Zelensky asks Blinken for air defence of Kharkiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Patriot air defence systems for the city of Kharkiv, which is routinely threatened by Russian missiles. Two of these systems are necessary to protect Ukraine’s second biggest city and its surrounding area, which borders Russia, Zelensky said in Kiev during Blinken’s surprise […]


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