He said this during a press conference during a visit to South Africa.
“We hope to see, like the Ukrainian president, that this will be resolved diplomatically after a while,” RIA Novosti quoted Blinken as saying.
As the Secretary of State noted, at the same time, the United States believes that it "should defend the message" about the importance of Ukraine's sovereignty "for the Ukrainians themselves and the whole world."
Earlier it was reported that Blinken will visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia, Rwanda, the Philippines and South Africa from August 2 to 12.
In these countries, he plans, among other things, to discuss the situation around Ukraine.