Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made another trip to Ukraine, appearing in Kiev alongside Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, and the US top diplomat vowed that some of the US aid from Biden's recently approved $60 billion for Ukraine is "now on the way".

But Zelensky immediately pivoted to begging for Patriot missiles amid Russia's new Karkhiv assault, saying that "of course we are very thankful for this to Americans, to American people" but that "We need, really we need today two Patriots for Kharkiv, for Kharkiv region because people there are under attack, civilians and warriors, everybody there is under Russian missiles." As we noted earlier of this perhaps awkward moment...

Blinken did not say that Patriots are on the way, instead he simply offered: "We know this is a challenging time"... words which are unlikely to be of much comfort to Zelensky.

And even while there's near universal consensus that Ukraine frontlines are crumbling especially in the north, Blinken claimed that the new military aid from Washington will "make a real difference against the ongoing Russian aggression on the battlefield."