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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
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.
Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov greets his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad. IMAGES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu ahead of the summit in Istanbul which will see leaders from Russia, Turkey, Germany and France discuss the situation in Syria. IMAGES of the encounter
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
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