Blinken and Lammy arrive in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian leaders

The two diplomats reached the Ukrainian capital by train from Poland on Wednesday.

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00:00U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lamey have arrived

00:07in Kyiv for talks with senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky.

00:14Ukraine has been pressing its Western allies to permit the use of long-range missiles against

00:19Russia and is expected to intensify these efforts following accusations Iran has been

00:25providing Russia with short-range ballistic missiles.

00:29The Kremlin says it will respond appropriately if the U.S. agrees to lift the restrictions.

00:36It comes as President Zelensky was joined by leaders from Lithuania, Croatia, Latvia

00:41and the Czech Republic to unveil a Ukrainian memorial for the victims of the Crimean Tatar

00:47genocide in 1944.

00:50Meanwhile, Russia claims to have captured a Ukrainian village near Vuladar in the Donetsk

00:57Oblast region, while its defense ministry says Ukraine launched 144 drones at Russian

01:03regions overnight.