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Biden is working hard to support Zelensky, visiting Washington
Joe Biden, who receives Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, is working hard to support Ukraine while he still can, 39 days before an extremely close presidential election, on which the future of American support for Kiev depends. the Kremlin once again raises the nuclear threat, the Ukrainian president was received at the Capitol by the leaders of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the Senate, who both wore yellow ties and blue shirts, the Ukrainian colors.Volodymyr Zelensky , dressed as always in a khaki outfit, did not stop in front of the journalists who asked him if he was going to meet the former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump, author of fierce criticism against him. “I am announcing an increase in security assistance to Ukraine and a series of additional actions to help Ukraine win this war,” the US president said in a statement released Thursday morning, which did not mention however, not the green light hoped for by kyiv to fire long-range missiles manufactured in the United States towards Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed this announcement which, according to him, will promote the “victory” of his country in the war waged by Russia. Russia. – 8 billion – In addition, Joe Biden called for a high-level summit to be held in Germany with 50 allied countries of Ukraine “in order to coordinate efforts”. The 81-year-old Democrat, a great architect of Western support to Ukraine since the invasion by Russia in February 2022, has decided to deploy 8 billion in aid in total. Joe Biden, who has given up running for a second term and who will therefore leave power next January, continues thus to break down the envelope of 61 billion dollars voted painfully last April by a politically divided Congress, in the hope of making aid to Ukraine long-term. The Ukrainian head of state must be received in the day by Joe Biden but also by the vice-president and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who promises to continue the policy of support of the current president. He must make statements to the press with her. Volodymyr Zelensky comes to Washington to present his “victory plan” the day after Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a proposal to change the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons by Moscow. This would involve responding to “Russia’s aggression by a non-nuclear country but with the participation or support of a nuclear country”, launched the Russian president. – “Specific signal” -In a new Russian warning on Thursday, the Kremlin stressed that this change in doctrine should be considered as a “specific signal” for the West. Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Ukrainians would “never” accept a possible peace agreement with Moscow that would be “imposed” on them by the great powers. “We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” Donald Trump denounced Wednesday during a campaign rally. “Every time he came to our country, he left with 60 billion dollars, I think he’s the best salesman on the planet,” quipped the former president. A meeting between Donald Trump, very critical of the amounts disbursed by Washington for kyiv, and the Ukrainian leader had been discussed , but has not materialized for the moment. Volodymyr Zelensky will also not see the Republican boss of the other component of Congress, the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. This faithful ally of the Republican billionaire reported an impediment. Moscow, whose troops have been advancing in recent months against the forces of kyiv, claimed Thursday the capture of Ukraïnsk, a town in the Donetsk region in the east of Ukraine. The conquest of Donbass, the Ukrainian industrial basin which includes the Donetsk region, is President Putin’s “number one priority”.bur-aue/eml
