president of the united states Joe Biden promised this Tuesday that Ukraine will “never” be a victory for Russia And praised Kiev’s resistanceBiden, who is “still standing” a year after the start of the Russian invasion, which is the 24th anniversary, told hundreds of people in his expected speech in Moscow gardens, “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. Never!” Former royal castle in Warsaw.
Biden, who made a highly symbolic visit to Kiev on Monday, said he could testify that the Ukrainian capital was “still standing” despite the Russian armed forces trying to conquer it with an offensive at the beginning of the war. “One year after the bombs began to fall and the Russian tanks entered Ukraine, the country is still independent and free today. “Those lands, from Kherson to Kiev, have been recaptured,” Biden said.
The US president has placed the war in Ukraine in a broader context: World War II. He spoke of the dominant values of the liberal global order created after World War II and the struggle between democracies and autocracies “We see once again today that the people of Poland and people in Europe have lived for decades. The hunger of autocrats cannot be satisfied, it must be resisted. And there is only one word that autocrats understand: no, no, no. You have won. Biden said, ‘Don’t take my country, take my freedom. You will not take my future, you will not take my future.
However, he admitted that there will be “difficult and painful” days He assured that the United States would continue to support Ukraine for the remainder of the war, however, and reaffirmed its commitment to NATO by specifically referring to Article 5 of mutual defense in its founding treaty.
Biden similarly explained US to host NATO summit next year.
The castle where Biden gave his speech was one of the scenes of the 1944 Warsaw uprising against Nazi Germany, which later invaded the country. The building is decorated with numerous American, Polish and Ukrainian flags and illuminated with the Ukrainian colors of yellow and blue. Among the audience were Polish citizens and Ukrainian refugees, happily waving small flags of their country and the United States as they listened to Biden’s speech despite the cold and the hours of waiting.