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Weekend: Ukraine war: Zelensky to ask US for material support

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24/04/2022 GMT

Ukraine war: Zelensky to ask US for material support

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expected to visit Kyiv on Sunday

As Russia's war on Ukraine enters its third month, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin are due in Kyiv today, the first top US officials to visit since the invasion.  Their trip's been announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky though not confirmed by Washington. Mr Zelensky said he expected them to come with material support.

Journalist Stanislav Aseyev on how war in Eastern Ukraine and imprisonment by Russian backed separatists have transformed him. 

Polls have opened in France's presidential election runoff, with voters facing a choice between Emmanuel Macron and his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.

Joining Julian Worricker are Nataliya Vasilyeva, Russia correspondent for the Telegraph. she joins now from Istanbul, and Georgina Wright, Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Program for Institute Montaigne, a Paris based think tank.

(Photo: President Zelensky. Credit: Getty Images)

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