It has been confirmed the US Secretary of State's visited Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
Antony Blinken is pledging 320-million dollars in new foreign military financing for the country.
He also confirmed American diplomats will gradually start returning to Ukraine from this week.
However, they will work from Lviv to begin with rather than returning to the US embassy in the capital.
Meanwhile, Micheál Martin says we have to do more when it comes to providing for Ukrainian refugees.
The Taoiseach was speaking yesterday at the new refugee centre in Millstreet, Co Cork.
Around 100 Ukrainian families are being housed in the centre, which he says in an example of Ireland's "innovative" approach to the crisis.
The Taoiseach insisted that Ireland's "humanitarian effort" will continue .
"We are part of a European-wide response," he added.
"We are not a military power; the thing we can do best is humanitarian.
"It's a shared humanity and we have to do everything we can to protect women and children and those who are vulnerable, in the first instance."
