#Biden makes secret visit to #Ukraine #shorts

President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a gesture of solidarity that comes days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country.

Speaking alongside Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace, Biden recalled the fears nearly a year ago that Russia’s invasion forces might quickly take the Ukrainian capital. “One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden said, jamming his finger for emphasis on his podium decorated with the U.S. and Ukrainian flags. “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you, and the world stands with you.”

The Ukraine visit comes at a crucial moment in the war as Biden looks to keep allies unified in their support for Ukraine as the war is expected to intensify with both sides preparing for spring offensives. Zelenskyy is pressing allies to speed up delivery of pledged weapon systems and is calling on the West to deliver fighter jets to Ukraine — something that Biden to date has declined to do.

In Kyiv, Biden announced an additional half-billion dollars in U.S. assistance, including shells for howitzers, anti-tank missiles, air surveillance radars and other aid but no new advanced weaponry.

Zelenskyy said he and 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.

Biden also got a short firsthand taste of the terror that Ukrainians have lived with for close to a year, as air raids sirens howled over the capital just as he and Zelenskyy were exiting the gold-domed St. Michael’s Cathedral, which they visited together. Looking solemn, they continued unperturbed as they laid a wreath and held a moment of silence at the Wall of Remembrance honoring Ukrainian soldiers killed since 2014.

Biden’s mission with his visit to Kyiv, which comes ahead of a scheduled trip to Warsaw, Poland, is to underscore that the United States is prepared to stick with Ukraine “as long as it takes” to repel Russian forces even as public opinion polling suggests that U.S. and allied support for providing weaponry and direct economic assistance has started to soften. 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. and European allies to provide more advanced weaponry and to step up the pace of delivery.

[bobbobbington]

Is he there to get one of their investigative prosecutors fired again?!

[sizaar]

JOE BIDEN BRAVE AND STRONG MAN IN DIFFICULT TIMES 👏👏👏👏

[rytkosenjussi]

Like secret service would allow this poor old senile man to be outside in warzone.

[teenasnyder]

I wanna know what was his sign in there. What did he sign while he was there? Everybody should know. What kind of secret thing did he sign off to everybody there at Ukraine?

[ScarlettOHara]

How can anyone support these people anymore. It's sickening.

[mikeanthony]

Checking on your kids investments huh?

[chuckbabbs]

Walnut sauce for everyone! I just saw a video of them harvesting organs from live little kids in Ukraine

[oliviadestandau]

Jeez, they are both SO pathetically evil...

[.xG]

One well placed Russian bomb could have made things a whole lot easier for “we the people”

[kimberlyjordine]

Just like them secret visits to Epstein Island 🏝️! 😎

[jerrynemec]

Senile puppet looks so weak and feeble

[cybertroll]

For all the billions potato joe gave them he's probably getting that good ukranian pudding.

[jerrywimberley]

Only thing I want to hear about biden is how many years he gets in