Zelenskyy meets top-level US delegation, gets aid promises

By DAVID KEYTON
Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the U.S. secretaries of state and defense in the highest-level visit to Kyiv by an American delegation since the start of the Russian invasion. Zelenskyy’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was shrouded in secrecy and came as Ukraine pressed the West for more powerful weapons in its fight against the Russian invasion. Blinken and Austin promised Zelenskyy a more than $300 million package of foreign military financing and a $165 million sale of ammunition. They also said President Joe Biden would announce his pick for a U.S. ambassador to Ukraine