Great Britain Blinken and other politicians arrive in Kiev for Crimea summit

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart David Lammy have traveled to Ukraine for talks and to participate in the fourth summit of the so-called Crimean Platform. Local media showed their arrival at the train station in the capital Kiev.

Among other things, talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky and the new Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha were announced. The most important topic was Kiev's demand to be allowed to use long-range US and British weapons against targets on Russian territory.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina and the President of the Czech Senate, Milos Vystrcil, also traveled to Kiev for the Crimean Platform meeting.

The so-called Crimean Platform was set up by Kiev in 2021 as a regular summit meeting to draw more international attention to the situation surrounding the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. Ukraine has also been fending off a large-scale Russian invasion of other territories for two and a half years. Kiev's declared goal is also to reclaim Crimea.