U.S. President Joe Biden delivered remarks and met with Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace to announce an additional half-billion dollars in U.S. assistance and to reassure Ukraine of American and allied support as the conflict continues.
The Associated PressU.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walk next to Saint Michael’s cathedral in Kyiv on Monday.
Biden's mission with his visit to Kyiv — and then Warsaw — is to underscore that the U.S. is prepared to continue its support of Kyiv as it repels Russian forces, with the U.S. leader saying "the United States will remain with Ukraine as long as it takes."For Zelenskyy, the symbolism of having the U.S. president stand side by side with him on Ukrainian land as the anniversary nears is no small thing as he prods the U.S.
Though Western surface-to-air missile systems have bolstered Ukraine's defensives, the visit marked the rare occasion where a U.S. president has travelled to a conflict zone where the U.S. or its allies did not have control over the airspace. It wasn't immediately clear whether the U.S. had given advance notice of the trip to Moscow to avoid any miscalculation that could bring the two nuclear-armed nations into direct conflict.
Speculation has been building for weeks that Biden would pay a visit to Ukraine around the Feb. 24 anniversary of the Russian invasion. But the White House repeatedly had said that no presidential trip to Ukraine was planned, even after the Poland visit was announced earlier this month.
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