KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces pressed their deadly assault on Ukraine’s capital Tuesday, the besieged country received new gestures of important international support: the arrival in Kyiv of leaders of three European nations and a planned trip to Brussels next week by President Joe Biden for an emergency summit at NATO headquarters.
The White House announced that Biden will attend an emergency session of NATO next week as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed his call for urgent military aid in a virtual speech to the Canadian Parliament, a message he is expected to repeat Wednesday to the U.S. Congress.
Biden’s presence at the NATO summit is intended to showcase U.S. commitment to stopping Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and reassure European allies that Washington is a reliable partner, a once-cherished notion that was damaged during the Trump administration’s favoring of an “America first” policy that often seemed to abandon traditional multilateral cooperation.
