Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding, says US’s Blinken

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meet in Kyiv (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Russia is failing in its war aims and “Ukraine is succeeding”.

His secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv along with Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was the highest-level American visit to the capital since Russia invaded in late February.