Washington, February 20 US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone Monday evening with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a few hours after visiting Ukraine, a country the President will visit soon.
“President Biden spoke to Italian Prime Minister Meloni by telephone tonight following the President’s trip to Ukraine and prior to the Prime Minister’s visit to Ukraine,” the White House said in a brief statement.
The two leaders, he added, “discussed their continued close coordination in supporting Ukraine, including security, economic and humanitarian assistance.”
The US president has invited Meloni to Washington, a trip that will take place “when the schedules align”, the statement concludes.
Biden traveled to Kyiv on Monday to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, and announced an additional $500 million in military aid to Ukraine in a show of solidarity to mark the Feb. 24 anniversary of the invasion. Russian.
After the visit, which was only revealed during the course and which had been kept secret for security reasons, the American traveled to the Polish capital, where an official trip begins tomorrow.
Meloni was in Warsaw on Monday and met with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. During a joint press conference, the leader of the far-right Italian Brotherhood said that “Ukraine knows that it can count on us and that Poland can count on us”.
Although Meloni’s spokesmen have not confirmed the trip to Ukraine for security reasons, the Italian press has assured in recent days that the president will travel to Kiev in the coming hours.