Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was en route to Washington on Wednesday to meet President Joe Biden.
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.”..Weapons, weapons and more weapons. It is important to personally explain why we need certain types of weapons,” Podolyak said. “In particular, armoured vehicles, the latest missile defence systems and long-range missiles.”He will hold a meeting with Biden at the White House at 2:30 p.m. , participate in a joint news conference with the U.S. president and then go to Capitol Hill to address a joint session of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb.
Biden will be face-to-face with the man he has spoken with regularly over the past 10 months but not met in person since the war broke out. He will not use the talks to push Zelenskyy towards the negotiating table with Putin, the U.S. official said. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy called it a trip to “Fortress Bakhmut” in Donetsk, a province Russia claimed in September. Most countries reject Russia’s claim as an illegal occupation.Article content
Video footage released on Ukrinform TV, part of Ukraine’s state news agency, showed servicemen in Bakhmut handing Zelenskyy a Ukrainian flag with their signatures on it. Ukraine’s Luhansk regional military administration said Russian mining had slowed down Ukrainian forces in the area.
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