Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Western countries would step up support for Ukraine’s power sector and remain united against efforts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to divide Europe over energy supplies
BUCHAREST—Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Western countries would step up support forand remain united against efforts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to divide Europe over energy supplies.
“His strategy has not and will not work,” Mr. Blinken told reporters following meetings of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies. “We will continue to prove him wrong,” said Mr. Blinken, who added that “heat, water, electricity—for children, for the elderly, for the sick—these are President Putin’s new targets.”
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