Joe Biden visits Kyiv in major show of support for Ukraine

[Whyayeman]

Joe Biden has visited the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, defying threats of Russian missile attacks, to announce a new package of additional US weapons supplies worth $500m (£415m), as Ukraine prepares to mark the sombre anniversary of last year’s full-scale Russian invasion.

The US president, closely surrounded by a large security detail, was escorted by his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on a walkabout around central Kyiv as air sirens could be heard, confirming rumours of a visit that had been circulating during the morning.

Joe Biden visits Kyiv in major show of support for Ukraine

US president meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy days before first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion

www.theguardian.com

This is good for the defence of Ukraine and Europe - and the free world. Putin is wrong-footed, again.

 

[HTacianas]

Joe Biden has visited the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, defying threats of Russian missile attacks, to announce a new package of additional US weapons supplies worth $500m (£415m), as Ukraine prepares to mark the sombre anniversary of last year’s full-scale Russian invasion.

The US president, closely surrounded by a large security detail, was escorted by his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on a walkabout around central Kyiv as air sirens could be heard, confirming rumours of a visit that had been circulating during the morning.

Joe Biden visits Kyiv in major show of support for Ukraine

US president meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy days before first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion

www.theguardian.com

This is good for the defence of Ukraine and Europe - and the free world. Putin is wrong-footed, again.

He was overheard telling Zelenskiy, "Listen Jack. Ten percent for the big guy means ten percent for the big guy. Got it"??

 

[GreatLakes4Ever]

He was overheard telling Zelenskiy, "Listen Jack. Ten percent for the big guy means ten percent for the big guy. Got it"??

Citation needed

 

[Desk trauma]

He was overheard telling Zelenskiy, "Listen Jack. Ten percent for the big guy means ten percent for the big guy. Got it"??

Who overheard it and where was it reported?

 

[Brihaha]

Whatever they will say about this visit, it took some courage for Biden to visit a war zone. Putin might eventually acknowledge we are not abandoning Ukraine and postpone his land grab.

 

[Pommer]

Who overheard it and where was it reported?

I look forward to the end of this present day when it is “reported” as gospel.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Marjorie Taylor Greene is so mad about this. I guess she's hoping Russia takes over all of Ukraine, because she supports Eastern interests.

Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Joe Biden for visiting Ukraine: It doesn't go well

On Monday, President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv . This is the first time that Biden has visited�since Russia invaded Ukraine�in late February 2022. Biden’s choice of using President’...

m.dailykos.com

 

[durangodawood]

This kind of principled leadership is more than Id hoped for from Biden back when I voted for him mainly just to keep Trump torpedoing the republic.

 

[wing2000]

This kind of principled leadership is more than Id hoped for from Biden back when I voted for him mainly just to keep Trump torpedoing the republic.

As opposed to this:

She sent out a series of posts that can only have been written by Greene, including one where she wrote, on President’s Day, “This is incredibly insulting. Today on our President’s Day, Joe Biden, the President of the United States chose Ukraine over America, while forcing the American people to pay for Ukraine’s government and war. I can not express how much Americans hate Joe Biden.”

I'll venture to guess that most Americans understand what is at stake in Ukraine.....

 

[Pommer]

Marjorie Taylor Greene is so mad about this. I guess she's hoping Russia takes over all of Ukraine, because she supports Eastern interests.

Even lefty-me won’t link to the dailykos, way, way too left, though they seemed to play this story straight.

 

[Whyayeman]

The White House notified the Kremlin of Joe Biden’s intention to visit Kyiv hours before he departed for Ukraine, it has been revealed, as the details began to emerge of how the US president pulled off his high-profile diplomatic coup.

US informed Russia of Joe Biden’s Kyiv visit hours before departure

Details emerge of how White House planned ‘unprecedented’ visit and meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiyy

www.theguardian.com

In my view President Biden has acted with statesmanship. (He is not the first international leader to go to Kyiv in recent days.)