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By AFP
07 June 2024 | 2:25 p.m.
US President Joe Biden connected Friday pledged his enactment for Ukraine and announced different $225 cardinal successful information assistance to Kyiv arsenic helium met Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelensky for talks successful Paris.
US President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) arsenic they clasp a bilateral gathering astatine the Intercontinental Hotel successful Paris, connected June 7, 2024. – US President Joe Biden pledged his enactment for Ukraine and announced different $225 cardinal successful assistance to Kyiv arsenic helium met Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelensky for talks successful Paris. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)US President Joe Biden connected Friday pledged his enactment for Ukraine and announced different $225 cardinal successful information assistance to Kyiv arsenic helium met Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelensky for talks successful Paris.
“The United States volition basal with you,” Biden told Zelensky aft some attended hugely symbolic D-Day commemorations successful bluish France connected Thursday. Biden besides expressed regret for the hold successful getting caller assistance done Congress.
“You haven’t bowed down. You haven’t yielded astatine all. You proceed to combat successful a mode that is conscionable remarkable, conscionable remarkable,” Biden told Zelensky.
The caller bundle includes aerial defence interceptors, artillery ammunition and different “critical capabilities”, the White House said successful a statement.
“The president emphasized that US enactment for Ukraine is unwavering,” the connection said, adding that the 2 leaders agreed to conscionable again astatine the coming G7 acme successful Italy.
In a abstracted statement, the US Department of Defense said the information bundle would supply Ukraine with weapons to “meet its astir urgent battlefield needs” and see Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, ammunition for HIMARS systems, and 155 mm and 105 mm artillery rounds.
Zelensky was besides acceptable to clasp talks with French President Emmanuel Macron aboriginal Friday.
Macron said Thursday that Paris would transportation Mirage 2000 combatant jets to Ukraine and bid Ukrainian pilots arsenic portion of a caller subject cooperation.
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US President Joe Biden connected Friday pledged his enactment for Ukraine and announced different $225 cardinal successful information assistance to Kyiv arsenic helium met Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelensky for talks successful Paris.
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