Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making his way to Washington for a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden and to address Congress in his first known trip outside the country since Russia's invasion began.
Ukraine president due to meet Biden, address Congress as coveted Patriot missiles could be deliveredUkraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy awards a Ukrainian service member in the front-line town of Bakhmut on Tuesday.
The highly sensitive trip is taking place after 10 months of a brutal war that has seen tens of thousands killed and wounded on both sides of the conflict, along with devastation for Ukrainian civilians. It also comes as U.S. lawmakers are set to vote on a year-end spending package that includes about $45 billion US in emergency assistance to Ukraine and as the Pentagon prepares to send Patriot surface-to-air missiles to the country to defend itself.
In an earlier pre-war visit to the U.S., Zelenskyy met with Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 1, 2021. It was the two leaders' first face-to-face meeting. The White House consulted with Zelenskyy on security for his departure from Ukraine and travel to Washington, including the risk of Russian action while Zelenskyy was briefly out of the country, the official added, declining to detail the measures taken to safeguard the Ukrainian leader. The official said the U.S. expected Russia to continue its attacks on Ukrainian forces and civilian infrastructure targets despite the trip.The tranche of U.S.
Biden has repeated that while the U.S. will arm and train Ukraine, American forces will not be directly engaged in the conflict. . Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy has said his party's lawmakers will not write a "blank check" for Ukraine.Putin admits to Russia’s difficulties in Eastern UkraineRussian President Vladimir Putin made a rare admission that things are not going well for the Russians in Eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met his troops in and around the city of Bakhmut, where the fighting is fierce.
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