The people of Ukraine will continue their fight and NATO is stronger, bigger and more united than ever, Biden said.
President of the United States Joe Biden has appealed to his country’s congress in his statement on the second anniversary of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, so that the new support package for Ukraine would finally be approved.
The aid package has tripped up the far-right wing of the Republicans and the likely presidential candidate Donald Trump’s to resistance.
– After two years of war, the people of Ukraine continue to fight with great courage, but they are running out of ammunition, published on the X platform in the statement let’s tell.
The president also emphasized that supporting Ukraine is an investment in the US’s own defense industry.
In addition, Biden repeated his message about the fact that the president of Russia Vladimir Putin made a bad miscalculation when attacking Ukraine.
– He believed that he could easily bend a free people to his will and break their willpower. That he could attack a sovereign state, and the world would give him too. — Two years later, we see even more clearly what we already knew from day one: Putin made a bad miscalculation, says Biden.
In his statement, Biden also referred to the expansion of NATO to Finland’s membership. Sweden’s membership still awaits Hungary’s approval.
– The brave people of Ukraine continue to fight, not giving up in their struggle to defend their freedom and future. NATO is stronger, bigger and more united than ever.
†The stakes of the war extend beyond Ukraineâ€
Biden also said that the American people and people around the world understand that the stakes of the war extend far beyond Ukraine.
– Ten years ago, Putin occupied the Crimean peninsula and created puppet governments in the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. Two years ago, he tried to wipe Ukraine off the map. If Putin does not have to pay the price for the death and destruction he caused, he will continue his actions, Biden says.
In his statement, Biden also discussed the new sanctions imposed by the United States on more than 500 entities, which are related to Russia’s attack in Ukraine.
Biden cited not only the war in Ukraine as the reason for the sanctions, but also an opposition politician To Alexei Navalny death in a Russian prison. Among other things, the targets of the sanctions are people who have a connection to Navalny’s prison sentence.
On Saturday, February 24, it will be exactly two years since Russia started its large-scale attack in Ukraine.