U.S. President Joe Biden pledged Wednesday that western allies 'will not waver' in defense of Ukraine, casting the struggle against Russian aggression as one of the world's central challenges.
U.S. President Joe Biden pledged Wednesday that western allies "will not waver" in defense of Ukraine, casting the struggle against Russian aggression as one of the world's central challenges.He made the pledge at the NATO summit in the capital of Lithuania, a country that he said knows the "transformational power of freedom" after spending decades under Moscow's thumb.
The president was headed next to Finland, the newest member of NATO, for a meeting of Nordic leaders. During his speech, Biden hailed an agreement to advance Sweden's membership in NATO after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to drop his objections.The U.S. president's enthusiasm for expanding NATO has not extended to Ukraine.
Biden lauded Zelenskyy and Ukrainians for their courage by saying it's "been a model for the whole world to see." Zelenskyy thanked Biden and the American people for billions of dollars in military assistance, saying that "you spend this money for our lives." The meeting came after a few other encounters between Biden and Zelenskyy at the summit. They sat close to each other at the inaugural meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a new forum that's intended to give Kyiv a greater voice within the alliance.
And by then, Zelenskyy had softened his tone considerably. En route to Vilnius on Tuesday, he had blasted NATO's vague plans for Ukraine's eventual membership, tweeting, "It's unprecedented and absurd when a time frame is set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine's membership."
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