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Kiev, Apr 9 (EFE), (Camera: Sergey Dolzhenko).- Ukraine does not want a war with Russia but it is ready to defend itself if it is attacked, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said Friday in an exclusive interview with Efe.“I would like to make it clear that Ukraine does not want war. We are not preparing any escalations, any offensive operations, any limited military operations on the ground," he said.Kuleba blamed Russia for the biggest military buildup along the border with Ukraine since 2014, saying this was an attempt to intimidate Ukraine. According to the chief of staff of Ukrainian armed forces Ruslan Khomchak, as of March 31 Russia had sent 28 tactical military groups to the Ukrainian border.SOUNDBITES OF UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DMYTRO KULEBA.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
As NATO celebrates its 75th anniversary in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asks allies for more Patriot air defence systems. SOUNDBITE
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk welcomes his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau in the Polish capital Warsaw. During an earlier visit to Kyiv on the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Trudeau appeared to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of assassinating his political opponent Alexei Navalny. IMAGES
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urges members of the US Congress to approve a Ukraine aid package. "We should be standing up for freedom, standing up for the right of this country to defend itself and making sure that Putin doesn't win," he says while on a visit to Bulgaria. The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives blocked war aid for Ukraine on February 13, ignoring President Joe Biden's plea that passing the bill was vital for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. SOUNDBITE
Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrives by helicopter at the UK Prime Minister's country residence, Chequers, in an unannounced visit. The UK has pledged to send new deliveries of "hundreds" of both air-defence missiles and long-range attack drones to fend off Russia's invasion. IMAGES
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