KYIV — The chief diplomats of the United States and United Kingdom on Wednesday began a visit to Ukraine, where they will discuss further easing rules on firing Western weapons into Russia, whose alleged acquisition of Iranian missiles has raised new fears.

In a rare joint trip, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the nine-hour train from Poland to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, whose two-month-old Labor government has vowed to maintain the UK's role as a key defender of Ukraine.

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