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[global times comprehensive report] us secretary of state blinken and british foreign secretary lamy arrived in ukraine by train on the 11th. the british broadcasting corporation (bbc) said that the joint visit of us and british foreign ministers to ukraine was the first in several years. blinken said that one of the main purposes of this visit was to directly understand what the goals of the ukrainian leadership are and what support they hope to get from the united states and britain. they will hold talks with ukrainian president zelensky.

according to afp, blinken and lamy set out from poland and took a nine-hour train to kiev together. this is blinken's fifth visit to kiev since a new round of conflict between russia and ukraine broke out in 2022.

the u.s. "politico news network" stated on the 11th that mccaul, chairman of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee and republican congressman, disclosed in an interview that blinken will inform ukraine during this visit that it can use the u.s.-provided army tactical missile system (atacms) to cross-border strikes against russia. the system has a range of up to 300 kilometers. once ukraine can use it to strike targets deep inside russia, it means a serious escalation of the situation. the report said that blinken and rami's visit to ukraine together is worthy of attention because the united states and britain were the first countries to provide weapons to ukraine, and many of the weapons provided by the united states and britain are long-range attack weapons. previously, both the united states and britain disagreed with ukraine using u.s. and british missiles to strike targets in russia. "if ukraine finally agrees, it will be tantamount to continuing the previous trend of ukraine using u.s. weapons, that is, the biden administration restricted or disagreed at the beginning, and then slowly opened up."

according to ria novosti, in response to expectations in western media that blinken might approve ukraine's use of the us atacms system to strike russian territory during his visit to kiev, russian presidential press secretary peskov said on the 11th: "of course, all these decisions have probably been made. at present, the media is carrying out propaganda activities." he said that russia will respond accordingly to attacks deep into its territory. volodin, chairman of the russian state duma (lower house of parliament), said that russia will be forced to respond with more powerful and more destructive weapons.

not all western countries are in favor of expanding the conflict between russia and ukraine. according to turkey's anadolu agency, german chancellor scholz said in parliament on the 11th that it is time to find a peaceful way to end the war in ukraine. he said: "we need to hold another peace conference, and this time russia must participate. this is a task we must now advance." (yu wen)