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Secretary of state Antony Blinken and secretary of defense Lloyd Austin also promised $322m in military financing during secretive trip to UkraineRussia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 61 of the invasionFortress Zaporizhzhia prepares to fight as war closes inUkrainian cities take heavy shelling as top US officials meet Zelenskiy in Kyiv‘We don’t want people to know’: Moscow-aligned Easter service in KyivUS diplomats will begin returning to Ukraine this week, the US State Department has said, after secretary of state Antony Blinken and secretary of defense Lloyd Austin returned from a secretive visit to Ukraine to meet president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.The top US envoys also promised more $300m in foreign military financing and have approved a $165 million sale of ammunition, according to Associated Press. 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.Zelenskiy had announced Saturday that he would meet with the US officials in Kyiv on Sunday, but the Biden administration refused to confirm that and declined to discuss details of a possible visit even though planning had been underway for more than a week.Journalists who traveled with Austin and Blinken to Poland were barred from reporting on the trip until it was over, were not allowed to accompany them on their overland journey into Ukraine, and were prohibited from specifying where in southeast Poland they waited for the cabinet members to return. Officials at the State Department and the Pentagon cited security concerns. Continue reading...