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Blinken Visits Kyiv in New US Show of Support for Ukraine

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Antony Blinken, third right, visits a hospital in Kyiv, on Sept. 8.

Antony Blinken, third right, visits a hospital in Kyiv, on Sept. 8.

Photographer: Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Kyiv Thursday for meetings with Ukrainian officials as the country’s military presses to regain territory that Russia seized in the first six months of its invasion.

The trip to Ukraine is Blinken’s third since the start of the war on Feb. 24 and his fifth since becoming the Biden administration’s top diplomat, according to the State Department.