KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least 16 people were killed and dozens were wounded Wednesday when Russian shelling struck a market in a city in eastern Ukraine, officials said. The deadly attack came as U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kyiv and was expected to announce more than $1 billion in new American funding.
Twenty shops, power lines, administrative building and the floor of an apartment building were damaged, according to the prosecutor general’s office. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that U.S. assistance to Ukraine “can’t influence the course of the special military operation” — Moscow’s euphemism for the war.
Those alternatives may include new overland routes, or ships hugging coastlines to keep out of international waters where they could be targeted by Russia’s navy. Shmyhal said Ukraine is grateful the money is coming in the form of grants, not loans that would drive it into debt. The trip was Blinken’s fourth visit to Ukraine since the war began, including one very brief excursion over the Polish-Ukrainian border in March 2022, just a month after the Russian invasion. But it will be the first time America’s top diplomat spends the night in the capital since he visited Kyiv in January 2022, before the invasion.Shared priorities will be discussed with the state of Ukraine’s counteroffensive high on the agenda, a senior U.S.
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