US President Joe Biden made an unannounced trip to Kyiv early on Monday for the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago.
Biden arrived in Kyiv at 8 a.m. local time (1:00 a.m. ET), according to reporters travelling with him inside the country, and was greeted by the US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. His motorcade arrived at the Mariinsky Palace just after 8:30 a.m. local time. He was greeted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife, Olena Zelenska.
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“Thank you for coming,” Zelensky said, shaking Biden’s hand.
Also, Biden declared from Kyiv on Monday that a year after invading Ukraine, “Putin’s war of conquest is failing.”
“Putin thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided,” Biden said standing alongside Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky. “He thought he could outlast us. I don’t think he’s thinking that right now.”
“He’s just been plain wrong,” Biden said of Putin. “One year later, the evidence is right here in this room. We stand here together.”
Biden’s visit to Ukraine, his first since the invasion, was a highly symbolic moment meant to demonstrate lasting American support for the country and its people.
He harkened back to the start of the war, when the world was anxiously watching the buildup of Russian troops along Ukraine’s border.
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In his speech, Biden recalled how he and Zelensky spoke by phone as “Russian planes were in the air and tanks were going across your border.”
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