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U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on May 14 for his first visit to the Ukrainian capital since the U.S. Congress passed a long-awaited aid bill for Ukraine last month, Reuters reported. The purpose of the previously undisclosed trip is to demonstrate U.S. solidarity with Ukraine. Blinken, who arrived in Kyiv by train early in the morning, hopes to “send a strong signal of reassurance to Ukrainians.” “The Secretary’s mission here is really to talk about how our supplemental assistance is going to be executed in a fashion to help shore up their defenses (and) enable them to inc…

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