On the heels of a visit to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters that Russia is clearly “failing” in its war aims and “Ukraine is succeeding,” while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the United States wanted to see “Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
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