US president Joe Biden made a shock go to to Kyiv on Monday, shoring up assist for his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy days earlier than the primary anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The stopover, which comes forward of Biden’s preannounced journey this week to Poland’s capital Warsaw, marks the primary time the US chief has visited Kyiv since taking on as president. He visited a number of instances whereas serving as vice-president within the Obama administration.
Movies posted on Ukrainian social media together with by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser at Ukraine’s inside ministry, confirmed Biden and Zelenskyy strolling exterior a golden-domed church in downtown Kyiv as air raid sirens went off in Kyiv and far of the nation.
“President Biden is in Kyiv,” Gerashchenko wrote.
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