The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released striking photos of him after a controversial Thursday evening phone call with U.S. President Joe Biden, who rumors claimed told Zelensky to “brace for impact” from a Russian invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told American counterpart Joe Biden to place emphasis on the “economic and financial stability” of the country during a phone call Thursday following multiple public statements urging the Ukrainian public not to fall prey to panic about a potential Russian invasion fueled by Biden.
President Joe Biden spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Thursday to discuss their ongoing tensions with Russia.
Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said on Tuesday that even though China is not directly involved in negotiations with the U.S. and NATO over the fate of Ukraine, “our Chinese friends are paying close attention to the talks.”
Many Ukrainians appear more concerned about the potential economic fallout of panic over a Russian invasion – including a decline in the value of the national currency and potentially soaring natural gas prices – than any military activity on its own, locals told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly asked President Joe Biden to impose sanctions on Russia before an invasion begins, and has been denied every time.
Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov told reporters on Tuesday that Kyiv considers – and intelligence reports from the West agree – that “internal destabilization” caused by panic over a potential further Russian invasion is “the number one issue,” not any potential invasion on its own.
The head of the National Security Council of Ukraine dismissed any further Russian invasion of the country as “impossible” on Tuesday, directly contradicting panicked demands by the administration of President Joe Biden for Americans to flee the country.
Vice President Kamala Harris warned Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine on Tuesday, in an interview in Wisconsin.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday told Americans to leave Ukraine amid Russian aggression.
The Biden administration on Sunday once again rejected pleas from the Ukrainian government to impose sanctions on Russia before an invasion begins.
President Joe Biden has undermined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with his pullout of the families of U.S. embassy staff from Kyiv, signaling fear of a Russian invasion and contradicting Zelensky’s attempts to boost morale.
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine on Monday dismissed the U.S. State Department’s withdrawal of the families of U.S. embassy staff in Kyiv as “premature” given the lack of “drastic change” in tensions between the country and Russia.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a press conference on Thursday that he believed a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be disastrous, and presented himself as a moderator who might be able to avert such a conflict by bringing the presidents of Russia and Ukraine together for negotiations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday asked for the Biden administration to impose sanctions on Russia immediately, rather than waiting for a Russian attack on his country. Zelensky made a similar request of President Joe Biden personally during a phone conference in December, without success.
During a portion of an interview with CNN on Thursday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tweet on Thursday that pushed back against President Joe Biden’s comments at a press conference on Wednesday about a small incursion
President Joe Biden’s “weakness” in signaling he would not respond to any “minor” Russian incursion into Ukraine is destabilizing to the world as well as well as American national security, said Reschenthaler.
Joe Biden’s comment seemed to suggest that unassembled Russian units could cross into Ukraine and not trigger a response, a day after the White House spent several hours trying to clarify the president’s comments.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday rejected comments made the day before by President Joe Biden that appeared dismissive of a potential Russian invasion of his country, affirming in a statement to social media, “There are no minor incursions.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an emergency evening speech to his citizens on Wednesday night in response to a series of bizarre comments by his American counterpart Joe Biden that appeared to indicate the latter’s certainty that Russia would invade Ukraine and assert America would not act in the event of a “minor incursion.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with officials in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, ignoring the mounting dangers facing American athletes at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which President Joe Biden refused to boycott.
Upon assuming the presidency, Joe Biden promised the world, “America is back,” building on his campaign claims that President Donald Trump had severely damaged relations with the country’s allies.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that it would withdraw 10,000 troops from the border of Ukraine, where roughly 100,000 troops are massed, prompting worldwide fears of a Russian invasion.
Frustrated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters Wednesday that the European Union and Biden administration’s tactic of threatening Russia with sanctions in the event that Moscow invades Ukraine “won’t matter to anyone.”
Ukrainian soldiers stationed along Ukraine’s border with Russia in the eastern Donbass region told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Tuesday they “don’t believe a [Russian] invasion is coming” to the region as speculated by Western media in recent weeks.
The Kremlin endeavored to depict a video call between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and American President Joe Biden as a friendly chat between old friends – not the tense showdown the White House described – on Wednesday, noting the two spoke for hours and made several jokes.
A Chinese company called Beijing Skyrizon Aviation Industry Investment announced a $4.5 billion lawsuit against the Ukrainian government on Monday, posing a significant legal and financial menace to Kyiv even as Russian military pressure builds along the eastern border.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Friday he recently received intelligence that Russian-backed actors are planning a “coup d’etat in Ukraine” to overthrow his presidency, according to the state-owned Ukrinform news agency.
As with so many other world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing one of his toughest political challenges due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Mikheil Saakashvili – a former president of Georgia and governor in Ukraine who has spent most of his career combatting Putin regime influence in the region – required “resuscitation assistance” on Sunday after 24 days on hunger strike, his lawyers said on Monday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday vowed the “response will be strong” to an apparent assassination attempt against his top aide, Serhiy Shefir. Zelensky worked his furious response to the attack on Shefir into his fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday afternoon.
Ukrainian police say the car of a top aide to the country´s president came under heavy gunfire, seriously wounding the driver.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Joe Biden the political and energy security issues related to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany were a big concern for Ukraine.
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “not in July, but, in August,” according to recent statements by George Kent, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported Tuesday.
Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova on Wednesday claimed the Russian military is deploying nuclear weapons and their related infrastructure to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Chinese government media outlets confirmed Sunday that Beijing’s Ministry of Commerce had recently signed a reportedly expansive deal to invest in nationwide infrastructure in Ukraine, following the latter’s decision not to co-sign a statement at the United Nations condemning China for committing genocide.
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday on her show “Deadline” that only Republicans have had a partisan approach to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.
Biden’s actions have left Ukraine, a U.S. ally, weakened, just to smooth relations with Putin. Trump was impeached for less.
President Joe Biden dismissed the possibility of an early entry for Ukraine into NATO on Monday, claiming the nation has to “clean up corruption” for the military alliance to trust it.
The administration of President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday that he has scheduled a meeting with Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for June 14, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels that day.
