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| US Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarks his plane after arriving for his visit to Vilnius, Lithuania, Mar 6, 2022. (Photo by =Olivier Douliery/Pool via REUTERS) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met on Ukraine's border with Poland on Saturday (Mar 5) to discuss Western efforts to support Ukraine and isolate Russia during the current war, now in its 10th day, Reuters reported.
Amid tight security, Blinken and Kuleba held talks in a tent on the border where refugees, mostly women and children, were also crossing with their belongings in rolling luggage and backpacks. The two men walked on both sides of a painted line that appeared to mark the end of Polish territory. "The entire world stands with Ukraine, just as I am standing here in Ukraine with my friend, my colleague," Blinken said. Kuleba added: "I hope the people of Ukraine will be able to see this as a clear manifestation that we have friends who literally stand by us."
Blinken earlier met Poland's prime minister and foreign minister and visited a center hosting refugees. Meanwhile, the number of refugees could rise to 1.5 million by the end of the weekend from a current 1.3 million, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Saturday. Russia describes its actions as "a special military operation" whose aim is to disarm Ukraine, counter what it views as NATO aggression and capture Ukrainian leaders it calls neo-Nazis.
