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U.S. President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still ______ what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion. The White House would not go into specifics, but national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that it notified Moscow of Mr. Biden’s visit to Kyiv shortly before his departure from Washington “for deconfliction purposes” in an effort to avoid any miscalculation that could bring the two nuclear-armed nations into direct conflict.
“One year later, Kyiv stands,” Mr. Biden declared after meeting Mr. Zelensky. “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you, and the world stands with you.”
Mr. Biden spent more than five hours in the Ukrainian capital, consulting with Mr. Zelensky on the next steps, honouring the country’s fallen soldiers, and seeing U.S. embassy staff in the besieged country.
The visit comes at a crucial moment: Mr. Biden is trying to keep allies unified in their support for Ukraine as the war is expected to intensify with spring offensives. Mr. Zelensky is pressing allies to speed up the delivery of promised weapon systems and calling on the West to provide fighter jets — something that Mr. Biden has declined to do.
The U.S. President got a taste of the terror that Ukrainians have lived with for close to a year when air raids sirens howled just as he and Mr. Zelensky wrapped up a visit to the gold-domed St. Michael’s Cathedral. In Kyiv, Mr. Biden announced an additional half-billion dollars in U.S. assistance for shells for howitzers, anti-tank missiles, air surveillance radars, and other aid but no new advanced weaponry.
Mr. Zelensky said he and Mr. Biden spoke about “long-range weapons and the weapons that may still be supplied to Ukraine even though it wasn’t supplied before.” But he did not detail any new commitments.