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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes a surprise trip to Kyiv as the United States unveiled nearly $2.8 billion in new military support to Ukraine and neighbours, to face Russia. Blinken travelled in secrecy on his second trip to Kyiv since the Russian invasion in February. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in Kyiv on Wednesday, hailing the "unconquerable will of the Ukrainians to resist" Russia's invasion, as the nation celebrates its Independence Day and marks the milestone of six months of war. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in Northolt, outside of the capital London, as Russia's assault on Ukraine intensifies. The three leaders are expected to give a joint press conference in Downing Street in the afternoon. IMAGES
British Prime minister Boris Johnson meets with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky at the Mariinskyi Palace in Kyiv. The British and Polish prime ministers are in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Zelensky, as Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the Hungarian leader in Moscow and has held a phone call with the Italian prime minister. Boris Johnson has warned on a trip to Kyiv that Russian forces massed on the border represented a "clear and present danger" to Ukraine as another burst of top-level diplomacy tries to head off a major conflict in Europe. IMAGES
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky on a historic visit to Kyiv, where he is pushing for a solution to end more than two years of war with Russia. Modi embraced Zelensky and signed the guest book at the Mariinsky palace, the president's official residence, in the first ever visit by an Indian premier to Ukraine. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is welcomed at the presidential palace by the country's president Gitanas Nausėda in Vilnius after arriving in the Lithuanian capital for an unannounced visit to the Baltic states, staunch allies of the war-torn country. Lithuania is the biggest donor to Ukraine in terms of GDP, according to the German-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy. IMAGES