KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to make a speech on Tuesday (Feb 21) setting out aims for the second year of his invasion of Ukraine, a day after US President Joe Biden walk
, Biden flew to Poland and on Tuesday will give a speech on how the United States has helped rally the world to support Ukraine and stress American support for NATO's eastern flank.
"The cost that Ukraine has had to pay is extraordinarily high. Sacrifices have been far too great ... We know that there will be difficult days and weeks and years ahead." "This visit of the US president to Ukraine, the first for 15 years, is the most important visit in the entire history of Ukraine-US relations," Zelenskyy said.Biden travelled to Ukraine's capital by overnight train from Poland, arriving after roughly 10 hours at 8am on Monday, before returning there the same way, leaving just after 1pm , according to a White House pool report by a Wall Street Journal reporter.
Russia was notified before Biden's departure, officials in Washington and Moscow said, apparently to avoid the risk of an attack on Kyiv while he was there. He will also give his analysis of the international situation and outline his vision of Russia's development after the West imposed sweeping sanctions on it, the Kremlin said.The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc would approve more sanctions before the anniversary of the invasion on Feb 24, which Russia describes as a"special military operation" to defend Russian sovereignty.
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