The official visit of the US Secretary of State to Kyiv can be taken as a ‘rapid diagnostic test’, or a geopolitical ‘biopsy’, so to speak. Antony Blinken clearly acted as a seasoned professional examining Ukraine to see if it lives up to the status of the US ‘strategic partner’; his talks with the Ukrainian government officials were set to help Washington to work out the US strategy for relations with Kyiv.
Our Constitution makes foreign policy a prerogative of the Ukrainian president and this makes him responsible for wins and losses of our diplomacy.
In an interview with the Financial Times the Ukrainian president urges to have 'Normandy format' “extended and expanded” and rejects Volodymyr Putin’s demand to hold talks with separatists.