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Blinken and Austin to Visit Kyiv as Ukraine Seeks ‘Specific Weapons’

• President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin III, would travel to the capital.
• Despite new attacks in Mariupol and Odesa, Russia has made “no major gains” in the past 24 hours, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said. Here’s the latest.