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Watch as US secretary of state Antony Blinken, UK foreign secretary David Lammy and Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha speak at a press conference on Wednesday 11 September, following their meeting in Kyiv.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has today called for “strong decisions” to be made as he ramped up the pressure on the West for permission to use long-distance missiles in Russia.
Mr Lammy and his US counterpart Mr Blinken are on a joint visit to the Ukrainian capital in a show of support.
The foreign secretary announced on Wednesday over £600 million worth of support for Ukraine, including aid to meet immediate humanitarian, energy and stabilisation needs.
Mr Zelensky has repeatedly pushed for permission to use Western missiles to strike at targets within Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and US president Joe Biden and Sir Keir Starmer are set to discuss the issue in Washington DC on Friday.
For their trip, Mr Lammy and Mr Blinken took an overnight train from eastern Poland and reached the Ukrainian capital shortly before midday.
Mr Blinken travelled from London, where he accused Iran of providing Russia with Fath-360 short-range ballistic missiles, calling the move a “dramatic escalation” of the war.
