(11 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kiev, Ukraine - 11 September 2024
1. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arriving
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State:
"The foreign secretary and I came to Ukraine today to really hear from our partners how we can continue to work together to help Ukraine defend its people, defend its territory through the fall fighting season into the winter as Putin continues his vicious war of aggression. And also, how to continue to set up Ukraine for success as a strong, independent country for the long term."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State:
"It's important that the Ukrainian people continue to hear directly from us. We remain fully committed to Ukraine's victory, to not only ensuring that Ukraine can defend itself today, but can stand on its own feet strongly, militarily, economically, democratically, for many, many days ahead, to securing the path the Ukrainian people have chosen toward greater integration in the Euro-Atlantic community, including the European Union and NATO, to getting a just and lasting peace."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State:
"The bottom line is this: We want Ukraine to win and we're fully committed to keep marshaling the support that it needs for its brave defenders and citizens to do just that. Now, support for Ukraine will endure because it doesn't depend on any one country, any one party, any one election. Here today, the United States, the United Kingdom, are united in support of Ukraine and its success. But we're united along with dozens of other countries, including the enduring coalition of more than 50 countries that have provided more than $100 billion in security aid to Ukraine since February of 2022 and continue to materially support Ukraine today. Our message, our collective message to Putin is clear. Our support will not wane. Our unity will not break. Putin will not outlast the coalition of countries committed to Ukraine's success. And he is certainly not going to outlast the Ukrainian people. They've never wavered in their belief that they and they alone will decide their future."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State:
"As we're meeting here today, we're again seeing Putin dust off his winter playbook, targeting Ukrainian energy and electricity systems to weaponize the cold against the Ukrainian people. That's why today we're announcing $325 million in new funding to help repair Ukraine's energy and electric grid and will rally additional support from the G7 plus countries, when we have a meeting of the energy coordination group in the next couple of weeks. I'm also announcing today $290 million in new humanitarian support to help provide vital services like safe drinking water, food, shelter, medicine to millions of people in Ukraine and around the region who have been displaced by Putin's war. And finally, we're announcing $102 million in additional funding in humanitarian demining to help remove landmines and unexploded ordnance that Russia has left behind across Ukraine."
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STORYLINE:
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced more than $700 million in aid for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv, aiming to bolster the energy grid that Russia has repeatedly pounded ahead of what's expected to be a difficult winter.
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