The two diplomats reached the Ukrainian capital by train from Poland on Wednesday.
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00:00U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lamey have arrived
00:07in Kyiv for talks with senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky.
00:14Ukraine has been pressing its Western allies to permit the use of long-range missiles against
00:19Russia and is expected to intensify these efforts following accusations Iran has been
00:25providing Russia with short-range ballistic missiles.
00:29The Kremlin says it will respond appropriately if the U.S. agrees to lift the restrictions.
00:36It comes as President Zelensky was joined by leaders from Lithuania, Croatia, Latvia
00:41and the Czech Republic to unveil a Ukrainian memorial for the victims of the Crimean Tatar
00:47genocide in 1944.
00:50Meanwhile, Russia claims to have captured a Ukrainian village near Vuladar in the Donetsk
00:57Oblast region, while its defense ministry says Ukraine launched 144 drones at Russian
01:03regions overnight.