The decision comes after the visit to kyiv of the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and his meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski.
Euskaraz irakurri: AEBren diplomazialariak Ukrainara itzuliko dira asteon
USA will resume diplomatic activity in Ukraine this week, for the first time since the invasion of Russia began two months ago, a decision that comes hours after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited kyiv.
According to official sources reported to local US media, Washington’s diplomacy will initially return to the city of Lvivin western Ukraine, a town near the border with Poland that has hardly suffered from the bombings by the Russian Army.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have taken refuge in Lviv during the two months of the war, many of whom have managed to flee from the bombing to other European countries.
According to New York TimesThe decision was announced at a briefing for journalists in Poland by a senior State Department official and a senior defense official who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
American diplomats will begin crossing the Ukraine border this week, the State Department official said, and will reopen the kyiv embassy as soon as possible to begin reestablishing contacts across the country in person, according to New York Times.
This is the first step to reopen the United States embassy in the Ukrainian capital, official sources have confirmed to Washington Post. To the Ukrainian capital they have already returnedat least, 17 diplomatic delegationsmost of them from European countries.
The announcement comes just hours after Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin paid a brief, low-key visit to kyiv on Sunday, the first high-level US visit since the start of the war. on February 24 and in which they met with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Blinken and Austin have also conveyed to Zelenski that the Biden administration will provide some $713 million additional in military aid to Ukraine and a dozen other countries. Ukraine will receive more than $300 million, the State Department official has said, allowing it to buy more advanced air defense systems and stockpile weapons compatible with those used by NATO nations rather than those designed by the Russians. .
Source: Eitb
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