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Ukraine can win war with right kind of arms: Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin

Blinken said the US will reopen its embassy in Ukraine soon and that Russia had failed and Ukraine had succeeded in terms of "war aims", and promised more military aid

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US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin (left), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (centre) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine | PHOTO: AP/PTI

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The United States said it believes Ukraine can win the war, given it has the right weapons.  “We believe that we can win, they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support,” Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said during his visit to Kyiv with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
 
Blinken said the US will reopen its embassy in Ukraine soon and that Russia had failed and Ukraine had succeeded in terms of “war aims”, and promised more military aid, hailing the fight against Russia’s invasion.
 
But Moscow’s ambassador to Washington told Russian state television that Russia

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