The US president, Joe Biden, receives the Ukrainian chiefThe Ukrainian chief will converse earlier than the United States CongressWashington confirms the cargo of Patriot missiles to Ukraine
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, has left his nation for the primary time for the reason that begin of the struggle launched by Russia on February 24. On a shock journey, for safety causes, he arrived within the United States this Wednesday.
Zelensky has traveled by practice to Rzeszow, Poland, which is close to the border with Ukraine, earlier than boarding a US Air Force airplane that has arrived at Joint Base Andrews, outdoors Washington, shortly after midday, as reported by The Hill.
The US president, Joe Biden, and the primary woman, Jill Biden, have obtained Zelensky on the White House, the place a purple carpet and the flags of Ukraine and the United States have been deployed. There they are going to maintain a two-hour assembly.
The Ukrainian chief has mentioned he’s in Washington to thank the American individuals, President Biden and Congress for his or her “much-needed assist.”
Zelenski will go to the United States Capitol to present a speech throughout a joint assembly of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Before the information broke, the nonetheless Speaker of the Lower House, Nancy Pelosi, launched a press release hours earlier than asking parliamentarians to attend in individual and warning that Congress would have a session on Wednesday evening with “a really particular give attention to democracy”.
The go to, which didn’t materialize till the final minute and has been stored secret for safety causes, coincides with the Biden Administration’s announcement to produce Ukraine with a army assist package deal that features Patriot missiles valued at $1.85 billion. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has confused that this expertise is “able to taking pictures down cruise missiles, short-range ballistic missiles, and plane at a considerably greater altitude than earlier protection programs supplied.”
As he printed on his social networks, Zelenski has traveled to the United States to “strengthen Ukraine’s resilience and protection capabilities” and to debate “cooperation” between the 2 nations with the US president.
On my method to the US to strengthen resilience and protection capabilities of 🇺🇦. In specific, @POTUS and I’ll talk about cooperation between 🇺🇦 and 🇺🇸. I can even have a speech on the Congress and plenty of bilateral conferences.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 21, 2022
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky had not left the nation, regardless of presents from some nations to take refuge from the aggression of Russian forces. The Ukrainian president had declined all presents, stressing that he, as the top of state of his nation, should stay there throughout the struggle. Until now, solely the primary woman of the nation had represented Ukraine overseas in individual; the president had all the time accomplished it by videoconference.