US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that the United States is “rushing” with military aid to get it to the front "to protect soldiers, to protect civilians." Kuleba meanwhile says that Ukraine “urgently” needs seven more air defence systems and that the northeastern region of Kharkiv, which came under Russian attack last week, needs two systems. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES