Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba rendezvoused at a Ukrainian town on the Polish border Saturday.

The conference took place as Ukrainian officials pleaded for new anti-aircraft defenses to fend off Russian airstrikes amid soaring civilian death tolls. A report by the United Nations’s human rights office said there have been more than 1,000 civilian casualties since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a massive invasion to overthrow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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