Biden apologizes to Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

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PARIS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly apologized to Ukraine for a monthslong congressional holdup in American military assistance that let Russia make gains on the battlefield.

The apology came as Biden met in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who appealed for bipartisan U.S. support going forward “like it was during World War II.”

A day earlier, the two had attended ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, where Biden had drawn common cause between the allied forces that helped free Europe from Nazi Germany and today’s effort to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and Zelenskyy had been greeted with a rapt ovation.

“I apologize for those weeks of not knowing what’s going to happen in terms of funding,” Biden said, referring to the six-month holdup by conservative Republicans in Congress to a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine. Still, the Democratic president insisted that the American people were standing by Ukraine for the long haul. “We’re still in. Completely. Thoroughly,” he said.

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Blue lies Friday, 07 June 2024 07:17 PM

When you promise to give you should give. However better late than never. Rajapakse lied to the UN Secretary General Banki moon that he will give not 13 but 13 . A liar. It only goes to show ones upbringing.

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Deva Saturday, 08 June 2024 10:12 AM

Commenting out of context , sorry , you sound little mentally unbalanced.

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Tamil Historian Friday, 07 June 2024 07:48 PM

James Baker the American Secretary of State under President Bush Snr, promised the Russians at the end of the so called “ Cold War” in 1990 that they would never expand the NATO. Russians foolishly believed the Americans until they increasingly realised that NATO was moving closer and closer to Russian boarder. But when Putin realised that Ukraine ,which is literally next to Russia, had now become the NATO’s latest “target of acquisition” then he had no option other than to go militarily, that was why he invaded Ukraine. But the Western propaganda machine which exists to protect and promote the interests of North Americans , Europeans, Australians and New Zealanders is fooling the whole of third world and masking the truth. I can’t hep thinking how America and other Western countries would react if Russia forms a military cooperation, on America’s boarder, with Mexico. What is Mexico to America is exactly what Ukraine is to Russia.

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kondaya77 Saturday, 08 June 2024 12:46 AM

Take cover the sky is falling.

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Sokrates Saturday, 08 June 2024 09:03 AM

Unfortunately, what you are saying is not historically correct. 1. The promise that Bush made was never recorded in a treaty. 2. NATO is a purely defensive alliance and, according to its statutes, may never attack another country or carry out a first strike. All member states applied to join NATO for security reasons and no country was forced into NATO. 3. Even before the war of aggression against Ukraine, many NATO countries had a direct border with Russia. 4. In 1994, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan renounced nuclear weapons. In return, Russia guaranteed their sovereignty. 5. Putin's reasons for his barbaric, illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, constantly committing war crimes, are just a pretext. Putin, who has never been able to get over the fact that the Soviet Union dissolved, dreams of a Greater Russian Empire which will be built under him.

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Sokrates Saturday, 08 June 2024 11:26 AM

Unfortunately, what you are saying is not historically correct. 1. The promise that Bush made was never recorded in a treaty. 2. NATO is a purely defensive alliance and, according to its statutes, may never attack another country or carry out a first strike. All member states applied to join NATO for security reasons and no country was forced into NATO. 3. Even before the war of aggression against Ukraine, many NATO countries had a direct border with Russia. 4. In 1994, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan renounced nuclear weapons. In return, Russia guaranteed their sovereignty. 5. Putin's reasons for his barbaric, illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, constantly committing war crimes, are just a pretext. Putin, who has never been able to get over the fact that the Soviet Union dissolved, dreams of a Greater Russian Empire which will be built under him.

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Mahinda Saturday, 08 June 2024 11:58 AM

Very true !!!!

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