Biden urges NATO allies to keep backing Ukraine

Biden urges NATO allies to keep backing Ukraine

President Joe Biden urged NATO allies to keep backing Ukraine in its war against Russia as he made his farewell visit to Germany Friday just weeks before US elections.

As Ukraine faces a third winter at war and battlefield losses in the east, Kyiv and its allies fear a potential return of Donald Trump to the White House would mean reduced US military support.

Steinmeier said that just a few years ago in the United States-Germany relationship “the distance had grown so wide that we almost lost each other.

“When you were elected president, you restored Europe’s hope in the transatlantic alliance literally overnight,” Steinmeier said, before awarding Biden the Grand Cross special class of the Order of Merit.

Biden was originally due in Germany last week for a four-day state visit that would have included a major Ukraine defence meeting with Zelensky.

He cancelled that trip to coordinate the response to Hurricane Milton, but was nonetheless at pains to make his valedictory Germany trip, albeit with a stripped-down programme squeezed into a one-day visit.

AFP.