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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Saturday, March 5, 2022
Ukraine FM asks Blinken for jets, air defense systems
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks in Copenhagen, Denmark, on January 27, 2022. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)
Ukraine’s foreign minister tells his US counterpart in a face-to-face meeting his country needs fighter jets and air-defense systems, and called NATO’s refusal to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine a “sign of weakness.”
“It’s no secret that the highest demand that we have is in fighter jets, attack aircraft, and air-defense systems,” Dmytro Kuleba says he told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in talks at the Ukraine-Poland border.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center) meets with refugees at a reception center at the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing in Korczowa, on March 5, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP)
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