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Blinken hopes Ukraine offensive a ‘success’ to force Putin to talk
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani arrive to speak to members of the media in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, June 12, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/ Pool Photo via AP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope that a successful offensive by Ukraine would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending his invasion of Ukraine.
“Success in the counteroffensive would do two things — it would strengthen its position at any negotiating table that emerges, and it may have the effect as well of actually causing Putin to finally focus on negotiating an end to the war that he started,” Blinken tells reporters.
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