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By , WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden used a first official phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday to offer staunch support in Ukraine’s standoff over Russian troops near its border.Slideshow Washington has been Ukraine’s most powerful ally since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 but ties were overshadowed by Ukraine’s unwilling involvement in events leading to the impeachment trial of Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump.The conversation came after Western nations and transatlantic military alliance NATO voiced concern over Russian troop movements near the eastern Donbass region where Ukrainian troops are in conflict with Russian-backed forces.“President Biden affirmed the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbass and Crimea,” a U.S. statement said.The call lasted about 50 minutes, according to Zelenskiy’s chief of staff.“We discussed the situation in Donbass in detail. President Biden assured me that Ukraine will never be left alone against Russia’s aggression,” the Ukrainian president said in a video statement afterwards.Russia said this week that an escalation in Donbass could “destroy” Ukraine and warned against any NATO deployment.‘SHOULDER TO SHOULDER’Ukraine, Western countries and NATO accuse Russia of sending troops and heavy weapons to prop up proxies in Donbass who seized a swathe of eastern Ukraine in 2014. Russia says it only provides political and humanitarian support to separatist fighters in what it casts as an internal conflict.“We stand shoulder to shoulder when it comes to preservation of our democracies,” Zelenskiy wrote on Twitter after the call.Biden, a point person for Ukraine when vice president for Barack Obama, also stressed Washington’s support for Zelenskiy’s anti-corruption and reform agenda.Trump was impeached in 2019 over what White House aides described as an effort to withhold nearly $400 million in aid and a coveted White House visit unless Ukrainian officials announced investigations into Biden.Trump denied wrongdoing and the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate acquitted him.Biden also expressed a wish to visit Ukraine again, as he had as vice president, Zelenskiy’s office said.Reporting by Doina Chiacu in Washington and Ilya Zhegulev, Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv; writing by Doina Chiacu and Matthias Williams Editing by Matthew Lewis, Howard Goller and Andrew CawthorneOur Standards:

By , WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden used a first official phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday to offer staunch support in Ukraine’s standoff over Russian troops near its border.Slideshow Washington has been Ukraine’s most powerful ally since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 but ties were overshadowed by Ukraine’s unwilling involvement in events leading to the impeachment trial of Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump.The conversation came after Western nations and transatlantic military alliance NATO voiced concern over Russian troop movements near...

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