Joe Biden promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, in a historic visit to Washington, that the Ukrainians “will never stand alone” against Russia and that the United States would help Kyiv “as long as it is needed.”
“You will never be alone,” said the US president during a joint press conference with Volodymyr Zelensky from the White House. “When Ukraine’s freedom was threatened, the American people, like generations of Americans before them, did not waver.”
“We realize that the Ukraine fight is part of something much bigger,” added Joe Biden.
“The American people know that unless we stand up to such blatant attacks on freedom, democracy, and fundamental principles like sovereignty and territorial integrity, the world will face much worse consequences.”
“I’m not worried at all”
“We will stay by your side for as long as it takes,” he continued, saying he was “not at all worried” about the strength of the Western alliance.
“I have never seen NATO or the EU so united on anything,” President Biden said. “Putin thought he would weaken NATO, instead he made it stronger,” he said.
For his part, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was making his first trip abroad since the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine on February 24, welcomed the shipment announced by the United States of a Patriot air defense system, the most sophisticated available to the americans. Army.
“This is a very important step in creating safe airspace for Ukraine,” he told reporters, translated by an interpreter, along with President Joe Biden.
But the “just peace” mentioned a little earlier by Joe Biden to end this conflict “does not imply any compromise in terms of the sovereignty, freedom and territorial integrity of my country,” the Ukrainian president insisted.
Source: BFM TV
