President Joe Biden on Friday publicly apologized to Ukraine for the first time for delays in US military aid, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for more US assistance “as in World War II.”
The two men were in Paris where they spoke at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
As conservative Republicans in Congress sought to secure the flimsy defenses of the U.S.-Mexico border and put a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine on hold for six months, Biden apologized to the Ukrainian people for leaving them uncertain for weeks whether more aid was on the way, Breitbart News reported.
An elated French National Assembly President Yaël Brown-Pivet greets an equally excited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris, Friday, June 7, 2024. At right, Valérie Laveau, First Vice President of the French National Assembly (Julien De Rosa/Principal Photo via AP)
The president used the opportunity to say the United States would cooperate fully with Ukraine and to assert that the American people will stand by Ukraine for the long term. “We’re still working together. Fully, thoroughly,” Biden said.
AP Report President Zelensky urged the entire population to support the country’s defense against Russian aggression and thanked lawmakers for their unity in ultimately approving the arms package.
“In this unity of the United States of America, it is very important that all Americans stand with Ukraine as they did in World War II,” Zelensky said. “How America saved lives, how it saved Europe. We count on you to continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with us.”
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The United States will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The latest package includes ammunition for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), as well as mortar systems and various artillery shells, officials said.
