US President Joe Biden left a handwritten message for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he visited the Ukraine Royal Palace throughout a go to to the war-torn nation. Joe Biden left the be aware within the palace guestbook wherein he wrote that town has “captured part of my coronary heart.”

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“I’m honored to be welcomed once more in Kyiv. I stand in solidarity and friendship with the liberty loving folks of Ukraine,” Joe Biden wrote.

“Mr President, please settle for my deepest respect on your braveness and management. Slava Ukraini!,” he added. Joe Biden used the go to to reaffirm his US’ dedication to supporting Ukraine amid Russian invasion for “so long as it takes.”

The US president additionally pledged an extra half a billion dollars in navy help to Ukraine through the go to. The US has already delivered greater than $100 billion in help to Ukraine.

“When (Russian President Vladimir) Putin launched his invasion almost one 12 months in the past, he thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided. He thought he may outlast us. However he was useless flawed,” Joe Biden mentioned through the go to.

“The associated fee that Ukraine has needed to pay is awfully excessive. Sacrifices have been far too nice. … We all know that there will likely be troublesome days and weeks and years forward,” he added.

US nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan, who accompanied the US president for the journey, mentioned that Russia was not notified of Joe Biden’s journey plans.

“We did so some hours earlier than his departure for deconfliction functions,” Jake Sullivan mentioned, including, that the journey had “required a safety, operational, and logistical effort from professionals throughout the US authorities to take what was an inherently dangerous enterprise and make it a manageable degree of threat.”