Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ignored warnings of a Russian invasion shortly before the start of the war, US President Joe Biden said. There was “no doubt” that Russia would “cross the border,” Biden said in Los Angeles on Friday. “Zelenskyj didn’t want to hear that, and neither did many others.” The political leadership in Kiev reacted angrily to Biden’s statements.
“I know a lot of people thought I was exaggerating,” Biden said, referring to US warnings of a possible Russian attack. However, the US government had data to support its assessment.
“The phrase ‘don’t want to hear’ certainly needs some explanation,” Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhiy Nykyforov said on Saturday. Selenskyj has repeatedly called on international partners to impose preventive sanctions to force Russia to withdraw troops already stationed in the border region with Ukraine, Nykyforov told online newspaper Liga.net. “And here you can say that our partners didn’t want to hear us,” he said.
The United States had warned against taking such a step long before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. The statements were met with disbelief and even criticism from some European countries at the time. Some countries accused Washington of alarmism.
Source: Krone
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