The president of the United States formally apologized to Ukraine
PARIS (Associated Press) For the first time, Joe Biden, the president of the United States, formally apologized to Ukraine on Friday for a months-long legislative stalemate in American military aid, which allowed Russia to make military progress.
As Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris, the latter pleaded for bipartisan American assistance moving forward “like it was during World War II.”
The two had attended events commemorating the eighth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy the day before. Biden had drew parallels between the allied forces that liberated Europe from Nazi Germany and the current endeavour to defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, and Zelenskyy had received a standing ovation.
Referring to the six-month holdup by conservative Republicans in Congress to a sixty-one billion-dollar military assistance package for Ukraine, Biden said, “I apologize for those weeks of not knowing what’s going to happen in terms of funding.” The Democratic president continued, nonetheless, to believe that the citizens of America would support Ukraine indefinitely. “We are still here. Wholeheartedly. Quite thoroughly, he said.
