{"id":36020,"date":"2022-04-24T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/24\/ukraine-leader-pushes-for-more-arms-us-officials-to-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:57:07","slug":"ukraine-leader-pushes-for-more-arms-us-officials-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/04\/24\/ukraine-leader-pushes-for-more-arms-us-officials-to-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine leader pushes for more arms; US officials to visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Ukraine\u2019s leader petitioned for more powerful Western weapons as he prepared to meet with top U.S. officials in the war-torn country\u2019s capital Sunday and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/04\/21\/putin-claims-mariupol-win-but-wont-storm-ukrainian-holdout\/\">Russian forces concentrated<\/a>&nbsp;their attacks on the east, including trying to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops holding out in the battered port city of Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a lengthy Saturday night news conference held in a Kyiv subway station. The White House has not commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy said he was looking for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/04\/21\/small-group-of-ukrainian-troops-begins-training-on-us-howitzers\/\">the Americans<\/a>&nbsp;to produce results, both in terms of arms and security guarantees. \u201cYou can\u2019t come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/04\/21\/biden-pledges-800-million-in-new-aid-to-ukraine-will-ask-congress-for-more\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22051610460675.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Biden pledges $800 million in new aid to Ukraine, will ask Congress for more<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Biden says he will send $800 million more in military aid to help Ukraine, adding that as his authority to draw from U.S. military stockpiles surpasses $3 billion, he will need to ask Congress for more funding.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visit would be the first by senior U.S. officials since Russia&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\">invaded Ukraine 60 days ago<\/a>. Blinken stepped briefly onto Ukrainian soil in March to meet with the country\u2019s foreign minister during a visit to Poland. Zelenskyy\u2019s last face-to-face meeting with a U.S. leader was Feb. 19 in Munich with Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting was set to take place as Ukrainians and Russians&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-lifestyle-religion-9d076d8ea61a6d5d4ac054108d7b1f83\">observed Orthodox Easter<\/a>, when the faithful celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, considered the most joyful holiday on the Christian calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking Sunday from the ancient St. Sophia Cathedral, Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, highlighted the allegorical significance of the occasion to a nation wracked by nearly two months of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe great holiday today gives us great hope and unwavering faith that light will overcome darkness, good will overcome evil, life will overcome death, and therefore Ukraine will surely win!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"7033\" height=\"4859\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg 7033w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg?resize=300,207 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg?resize=768,531 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,707 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1061 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22114353600513.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1415 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 7033px) 100vw, 7033px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A men holds military helmet with traditional cakes and painted eggs as Ukrainian priest blesses believers during Easter celebration in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Apr. 24, 2022. (Efrem Lukatsky\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-europe-religion-soviet-union-world-war-ii-c8a4785266692df05d421ebdb748cf2e\">the war cast a shadow<\/a>&nbsp;over celebrations. Residents of rural villages battered by the war approached the day with some cautious defiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do I feel? Very nervous. Everyone is nervous,\u201d Olena Koptyl said as she prepared her Easter bread in the northern village of Ivanivka, where Russian tanks still littered the roads. \u201cThe Easter holiday doesn\u2019t bring any joy. I\u2019m crying a lot. We cannot forget how we lived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, during his nightly address to the nation, Zelenskyy claimed that intercepted communications recorded Russian troops discussing \u201chow they conceal the traces of their crimes\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-business-europe-moscow-67da12473ccd75fe02992f0eb751c5f4\">in Mariupol.<\/a>&nbsp;The president also highlighted the death of a 3-month old girl in a Russian missile strike Saturday on the Black Sea port of Odesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy said the military equipment received from Western supporters had been a big help so far, but he also has stressed that Ukraine needs more heavy weapons, including long-range air defense systems, as well as warplanes to fend off the Russian attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/04\/21\/white-house-appoints-ukraine-security-aid-coordinator\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP061217014531.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">White House appoints Ukraine security aid coordinator<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The White House announced Thursday it has appointed a retired three-star general who previously helped coordinate the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition to manage the steadily increasing influx of military assistance for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian military reported that it hit 423 Ukrainian targets overnight, including fortified positions and troops concentrations, while Russian warplanes destroyed 26 Ukrainian military sites, including an explosives factory and several artillery depots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the fighting Sunday focused on the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian forces are concentrated and where Moscow-backed separatists controlled some territory before the war. Since failing to capture Kyiv, the Russians are aiming to gain full control over Ukraine\u2019s eastern industrial heartland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian forces launched fresh airstrikes on a Mariupol steel plant where an estimated 1,000 civilians are sheltering along with about 2,000 Ukrainian fighters. The Azovstal steel mill where the defenders are holed up is the last corner of resistance in the city, which the Russians have otherwise occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, called for a localized Easter truce. He urged Russia to allow civilians to leave the plant and suggested talks to negotiate an exit for the Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Podolyak tweeted that the Russian military was attacking the plant with heavy bombs and artillery while accumulating forces and equipment for a direct assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mariupol has been the focus of fierce fighting since the start of the war due to its location on the Sea of Azov. Its capture would deprive Ukraine of a vital port, free up Russian troops to fight elsewhere, and allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 100,000 people \u2014 down from a prewar population of about 430,000 \u2014 are believed to remain in Mariupol with scant food, water or heat. Ukrainian authorities estimate that over 20,000 civilians have been killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satellite images released this week showed what appeared to be mass graves dug in towns to the west and east of Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy accused the Russians of committing war crimes by killing civilians, as well as of setting up \u201cfiltration camps\u201d near Mariupol for people caught trying to leave the city. From there, he said, Ukrainians are sent to areas under Russian occupation or to Russia itself, often as far as Siberia or the Far East. Many of them, he said, are children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The claims could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In attacks on the eve of Orthodox Easter, Russian forces pounded cities and towns in southern and eastern Ukraine. The 3-month-old baby was among eight people killed when Russia fired cruise missiles at Odesa, Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, citing social media posts, reported that the infant\u2019s mother, Valeria Glodan, and grandmother also died when a missile hit a residential area. Zelenskyy promised to find and punish those responsible for the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe war started when this baby was one month old,\u2019\u2019 he said. Can you imagine what is happening? \u201cThey are filthy scum, there are no other words for it.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Donbas offensive, Russia has reassembled troops who fought&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-europe-2c77447fda4b362dfcd99e4331f9d6ae\">around Kyiv and in northern Ukraine<\/a>&nbsp;earlier. The British Ministry of Defense said Sunday that Ukrainian forces had repelled numerous assaults in the past week and \u201cinflicted significant cost on Russian forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPoor Russian morale and limited time to reconstitute, re-equip and reorganize forces from prior offensives are likely hindering Russian combat effectiveness,\u201d the ministry said in an intelligence update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spiritual leaders of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-lifestyle-religion-pennsylvania-europe-5458f9a894bbac7cb80d4e6f6d55849d\">the world\u2019s Orthodox Christians<\/a>&nbsp;and Roman Catholics appealed for relief for the suffering population of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Istanbul, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I said a \u201chuman tragedy\u201d was unfolding. , Bartholomew, considered the first among his Eastern Orthodox patriarch equals, citing in particular \u201cthe thousands of people surrounded in Mariupol, civilians, among them the wounded, the elderly, women and many children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope Francis, speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter\u2019s Square, renewed his call for an Easter truce, calling it \u201ca minimal and tangible sign of a desire for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe attacks must be stopped, to respond to the suffering of the exhausted population,\u201d Francis said without naming the aggressor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press journalists Yesica Fisch in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Mstyslav Chernov and Felipe Dana in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Cara Anna and Inna Varenytsia in Kviv and Associated Press staff members around the world contributed to this story.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s leader is petitioning for more powerful Western weapons as he prepares to meet with top U.S. officials in the war-torn country\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":13,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,13,24,89,16,26,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3104],"class_list":["post-36020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-flashpoints","category-home","category-middle-column","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"ASFUVFNQX5BCDNIRZSEBMYKANU","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/04\/24\/ukraine-leader-pushes-for-more-arms-us-officials-to-visit\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ukraine leader pushes for more arms; 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