KIEV, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – Outgoing US Vice President
Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine on Monday to support the war-scarred country’s leaders amid concerns that ties could chill under Donald Trump.
Biden’s one-day visit to meet President Petro Poroshenko and Prime
Minister Volodymyr Groysman was his last to Kiev before leaving office and was aimed at underscoring his personal involvement in providing support for the former Soviet country.
Biden has spearheaded efforts by Barack Obama’s outgoing
adminstration to push Ukraine towards reforms as the country struggles with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its support for separatist fighters in the east of the country.
But US president-elect Trump’s praise for Russian President Vladimir
Putin has raised doubts over whether he will provide further assistance for Kiev.
“I wanted to come here one more time in my last trip as vice
president to honour how much progress the people of Ukraine have achieved,” Biden told journalists at a briefing alongside Poroshenko, saying Americans and Ukrainians were united by deep bonds.