The American president, Joe Bidenapologized to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyfor the delay in the approval of his country’s important military aid package and announced a new item worth 225 million dollars.
Biden and Zelensky met today in Paris within the visits that both make to France within the framework of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the landing of Normandy.
“The United States will be at your side,” said Biden while expressing his regret for the delay of several months in the approval of the almost $61 billion package, which finally received the approval of the House of Representatives last April, after months of blockade.
“I apologize for the weeks in which you did not know what was going to happen with the financing because we had problems with the approval of the bill,” said the US president.
“Some of the very conservative members (of the House of Representatives) were blocking it, but we finally got it passed,” Biden added.
He also expressed his admiration for the resistance of Ukraine: “They have not bowed, they have not given in at all. “They continue to fight in an extraordinary way,” he insisted.
Zelensky thanked Biden for the “tremendous support” and, within the tone of the interventions these days in France, He compared it to the action of the United States in the liberation of Europe during World War II.
“We count on your continued support and that you will be with us,” he added. Washington’s support shows Ukrainians “that we are not alone,” she stressed.
The Ukrainian president considered “very important” the unity that was finally expressed in Congress and that “all the American people are with Ukraine.”
He also thanked the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harriswill be Washington’s representative at the meeting on peace in Ukraine organized by Switzerland this month, with the attendance of more than a hundred countries and international organizations.
White House sources indicated that the new aid from US$225 million It will be used to supply more ammunition, also for air defense against Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid.
Source: Gestion
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