Blinken and Austin pledge more aid for Ukraine | Al Jazeera

The US has announced new military aid for Ukraine and promised that its diplomats will return to the western city of Lviv in the coming week, as its top diplomat and defence chief completed a secretive trip to the Ukrainian capital.

Blinken and Austin told Ukraine’s president and his advisers that the US would provide more than $300m in foreign military financing and had approved a $165m sale of ammunition.

They also said Biden would soon announce his nominee to be ambassador to Ukraine and that American diplomats who left Ukraine before the war would start returning to the country this coming week.

The US Embassy in Kyiv will remain closed for the moment.