Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented President Biden with a Ukrainian military medal during his visit to the White House, a show of thanks to the U.S. amid Ukraine"s war with Russia.

Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Joe Biden a medal from a Ukrainian soldier who requested it be given to “a very brave president”, Zelensky said, per The Independent. Biden thanked his counterpart, and said the award was “undeserved, but much appreciated”. In turn, Biden also promised to give the Ukrainian soldier a command coin from a U.S. battlefield in Iraq, where the president’s son, Beau, had fought.

Zelensky’s visit to Washington, D.C. is his first trip outside Ukraine since the beginning of the war.