A pair of Republican lawmakers traveled to Kyiv Thursday, making them the first U.S. officials known to visit Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion in late February.
Daines said he was invited to meet with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv and Bucha after he met with leaders in NATO countries bordering Ukraine. Late last month, he joined a bipartisan congressional delegation that visited Poland and Germany.to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the Biden administration to redeploy U.S. diplomats to Lviv to help with coordination in Ukraine.
“We must be engaged to stop this atrocity and bring back peace and order to the European content,” she wrote. State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters at a briefing Thursday that the agency is "constantly evaluating and re-evaluating the safety and the security situation," saying the goal is to re-establish a U.S. diplomatic presence as soon as it is "safe and practical" to do so.
He argued that the lack of U.S. diplomatic presence on the ground "has in no way hampered our ability to coordinate and to consult with our Ukrainian partners."
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