Zelenskyy visits White House as partisan divide grows ahead of US vote
Al Jazeera
Biden administration has pledged ‘surge’ in support, but friction has increased between Trump and the Ukrainian leader.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House, and was later set to meet with Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris, in a flurry of diplomacy ahead of the United States election in November.
The series of Washington, DC meetings on Thursday come as the Ukrainian leader has sought to shore up support for continued US military aid to his embattled country, regardless of who wins the vote in November.
Biden and Harris have both pledged that continued support, while the Republican candidate, former US President Donald Trump, and several vocal members of his party have continually called it into question.
“The United States will provide Ukraine with the support it needs to win this war,” Biden said in a statement on Thursday ahead of his White House meeting with Zelenskyy.
Biden further pledged to ensure that all funding so far approved for Ukraine is disbursed before he leaves office in January 2025, in what he described as a “surge in security assistance” totalling nearly $8bn.
