India, May 15 -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged visiting Secretary of State Antony Blinken to increase US military assistance to the Ukrainian defense forces, which are fighting furiously to blunt the Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city.
"We want to get it as soon as possible, and the second point is air defense, the biggest deficit for us. I think the biggest problem is that we really need today two patriots for the Kharkiv region, because there are people - they are under attack, civilians, warriors, everybody - they are under Russian missiles," Zelensky told reporters after his meeting with Blinken.
US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said that at their meeting in Ukrainian capital Ky...