KABUL (Pajhwok): The Biden administration says the United States is not prodding Ukraine to launch attacks on Russia.
The US, however, would keep lending Ukraine the military assistance the former Soviet republic needed to defend itself, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
Following US-Australia talks in Washington on Tuesday, TASS news agency quoted the top American diplomat as saying: “The US neither has encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside Russia.”
Also on Tuesday, Russia’s top negotiator said talks with Ukraine would begin in the Gomel Region of Belarus today (Wednesday).
Russian delegation chief Vladimir Medinsky said . . .
