Continued tensions between Ukraine and Russia have led to the U.S. providing 90 tons of “lethal aid” that arrived in Ukraine this week, as roughly 100,000 Russian troops remain stationed along the border.
The shipment is part of the additional $200 million of military aid approved by President Biden in late December and includes ammunition for Ukraine’s frontline defenders. And it comes after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kyiv and met with his Kremlin counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Switzerland earlier this week.
“We didn’t expect any major breakthroughs to happen today,” Blinken said at a news conference following his meeting Friday with Lavrov in Geneva. “But I believe we are now on a clear path in terms of understanding each other’s concerns and each other’s positions.”
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