Zelenskyy disappointed after meeting Biden in US
US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (photo: Getty Images)
Ukrainian leaders are disappointed after US President Joe Biden brushed aside their latest request to lift restrictions on the use of US weapons to strike Russian territory, reports Politico.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the issue of the use of American weapons at the end of the bilateral discussion, to which Biden said that both sides should continue to talk.
Anonymous interlocutors of the publication noted that this did not close the door to the possible lifting of restrictions, but it was still a long way from a "yes".
The publication reports that Zelenskyy and the head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak, were extremely disappointed after the conversation.
"The feeling is always the same: They will lift restrictions eventually, but some people have to die first. It seems like destroying a children’s hospital is not enough," said an anonymous source.
For his part, Biden, during his high-profile press conference on Thursday evening, told how he had told Zelenskyy that he would not strike Russia.
"If he had the capacity to strike Moscow, strike the Kremlin, would that make sense? It wouldn’t," Biden said.
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