Joe Bien spoke to Volodymir Zelensky about US aid to Ukraine

US President Joe Biden called on his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymir Zelensky on Wednesday to keep him aware of “continued U.S. support” for his country, the White House reported.

The Ukrainian president, for his part, said on Twitter that the two leaders had “talked about a new plan for military and potentially economic aid.”

“The constant dialogue with the president of the United States continues. We're evaluating Russian war crimes. We discussed an additional package of defensive aid and possible macro-financial aid. We agreed to increase the sanctions,” the Ukrainian wrote on Twitter.

Meanwhile, through his Telegram channel, Zelensky insisted on Wednesday with the call for more weapons to continue to face the Russian invasion and warned that “the war is far from over” and that what has been experienced so far has been “only the first round”.

” Several experts assured that Ukraine would not last more than a week. Not only have we arrested the Russian army, but we have pushed it back. But our war is far from over,” Zelensky said.

” Russia does not plan to stop in Ukraine. Russian propaganda openly declares that Europe is the next logical goal,” he added. “If the West does not help Ukraine stop Putin now, it will continue to expand its empire and kill women and children. It has already done so in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Bucha and other Ukrainian cities.”

To continue to cope with the invasion Ukraine needs, according to Zelenseky, “heavy artillery, armored vehicles, air defense systems and aircraft”.

Then he adds a more concrete list in which he orders parts and shells of 155 and 152 mm caliber artillery, multi-missile launch system “Grad”. “Uragan” or “American M142 Himars”, T-72 tanks and other armored transport vehicles.

Zelensky believes that, after withdrawing for the time being from the area around Kiev, Putin is changing his strategy to try to press harder on Kharkiv and the entire Donbas region, including the strategic Mariupol.

For his part, Biden ordered to extend for another year the declaration of national emergency regarding Russia, implemented in April 2021 for “harmful foreign activities” of Moscow.

That declaration of emergency was approved in the face of the “harmful” activities of the Russian Government, especially because of Moscow's efforts to “undermine the holding of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its partners and allies.”

In addition to this, action was also taken on the Kremlin's “malicious cyber activities” against the White House and for encouraging “transnational corruption to influence foreign governments,” Biden recalled in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

“I determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 with regard to harmful foreign activities specific to the Russian Government,” the president added in his letter.

As early as early as March, the US Administration also extended the declaration of national emergency in respect of Ukraine, adopted in 2014 in the context of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine at that time in the Donbas region and in Crimea.

(With information from AFP, EuropaPress)

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