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EU foreign ministers held their first-ever meeting outside the bloc in Ukraine on October 2. The meeting is reported to be a show of support for Kyiv after a pro-Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the US Congress omitted funding for the war-torn nation from a spending bill. EU High Representative Josep Borrell posted on X about the meeting. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that he was proud to host the meeting.

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00:00 EU foreign ministers held their first ever meeting outside the bloc in Ukraine on October

00:07 2.

00:08 The meeting is reported to be a show of support for Kyiv after a pro-Russian candidate won

00:13 an election in Slovakia and the US Congress omitted funding for the war-torn nation from

00:19 a spending bill.

00:20 EU High Representative Josep Borrell posted on X about the meeting.

00:25 His post read, "We are convening a historic meeting of EU foreign ministers here in Ukraine,

00:31 candidate country and future member of the EU.

00:33 We are here to express our solidarity and support to the Ukrainian people."

00:38 Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that he was proud to host the meeting.

00:43 He said, "For the first time in history, outside current EU borders, but also within its future

00:49 borders."

00:50 In the meantime, the US insists that its firm military and political support for Ukraine

00:54 has not wavered, despite Congress having excluded Ukraine funds from an emergency spending deal

01:00 reached at the weekend to avert a government shutdown.

01:03 Although right-wing Republican supporters of former President Donald Trump have increasingly

01:08 called for funding of Ukraine to be halted, President Joe Biden's administration says

01:13 it expects the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to pass a measure to keep

01:18 the aid flowing.

01:19 On Sunday, Biden pressed congressional Republicans to back the aid, saying that he was "sick

01:25 and tired" of the political brinkmanship that had nearly closed the government down.

01:29 Kuleba told reporters that he was still confident of US backing.

01:34 He said that the question was whether what happened in the US Congress at the weekend

01:38 was an incident or a system.

01:40 In Europe, pro-Russian former Prime Minister Robert Fico won the most votes in an election

01:45 in Slovakia on Sunday and will get a first chance to form a government.

01:50 His campaign had called for not sending ammunition from Slovakia's reserves to Ukraine.

01:56 Slovakia is a NATO state with a small border with Ukraine.

01:59 In the past, it has taken in refugees and under the outgoing government has provided

02:04 a major supply of weapons and was among the first to send fighter jets to Ukraine.

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