The presidents of Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are the latest NATO national leaders to visit Ukraine and meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a show of solidarity nearly seven weeks after Russian forces invaded the country, writes Washington Times
The four nations on the front lines of the clash with Russia have been among the strongest voices inside NATO for a tougher, more aggressive stand against the Kremlin.
On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania visited a battlefield in Dmytrivka, a town east of Kyiv, and closely examined a number of Russian tanks that had been destroyed by Ukrainian fighters.
“Heroism, love of freedom, and homeland always triumph over savagery,” Mr Nauseda wrote in a Twitter message. “Ukraine needs weapons for their fight here and now.”
The four presidents join a growing list of European leaders to visit Ukraine in person. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently made a surprise trip there and walked the streets of Kyiv with Mr Zelenskyy.
Officials in Washington said there were no plans for President Biden to join the list of Ukraine visitors. Mr Biden made a trip earlier this month to the Polish border with Ukraine, meeting with U.S. troops and some of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have flooded into the country.
