FOG BLOG U.S. LOG: PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AWARDS BIDEN WITH MEDAL FROM UKRAINIAN SOLDIER DURING MEETING!

Ukraine's Zelensky awards Biden medal during White House visit It was Zelensky’s first trip outside his country since the beginning of the war in February. Ten months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky landed at the United States capital for a historic meeting with President Joe Biden and a special address to a joint session of Congress.

He gave Biden the Ukrainian cross for military merit, offered by a captain it had been awarded to. Biden promised to give the captain a command coin from a US battlefield in Iraq, where his son Beau had fought.

It was Zelensky’s first trip outside his country since the beginning of the war in February.

According to a senior administration official, the visit was first discussed during a call last week, with the visit itself confirmed just Sunday.

Zelensky was greeted by the president and first lady Jill Biden at the White House’s South entrance before the two leaders headed to their meeting. It was their second face-to-face meeting, as Zelensky visited the White House in September 2021.