Biden reiterates his support for a "just" peace for Ukraine as he receives Zelensky in Washington

The American president, Joe Biden, reiterated this Thursday his commitment to a “just” and “lasting” peace for Ukraine when receiving his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House.

“No nation can be truly safe in a world in which we do not defend the freedom of Ukraine in the face of brutal Russian aggression,” the US president said at the beginning of the meeting and in the presence of the media.

Biden has argued that the conflict in Ukraine will have consequences for the entire world and that, for this reason, Washington and its allies continue to support a “just” and “lasting” peace for Ukraine, a peace that “respects Ukraine's sovereignty and its integrity.” territorial”.

The Biden administration, however, has avoided committing to all of Zelensky's requests to end the war, which began with the Russian invasion of February 2022.

Zelensky presented at the 2022 G20 summit a ten-point decalogue that Moscow has called absurd and in which Kiev assures that it will not stop until it recovers 100% of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. .

The Biden Executive has avoided explicitly committing to the defense of Crimea, although it continues to condemn its annexation by Moscow, and has repeated on several occasions that it is the Ukrainians who must decide the future of their country.

A new aid package for Ukraine

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the United States has provided 43.8 billion dollars (41.081 million euros at today's exchange rate) in aid to Ukraine with the objective, according to the Biden Administration, of making it easier for Zelensky to achieve advances in the field of battle and force an eventual negotiation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

This Thursday, coinciding with the meeting with Zelensky, Biden plans to announce a new military aid package to Ukraine, according to White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a press conference.

However, this package will not include long-range ATACMS missiles, which kyiv has been insistently demanding for months and which Washington has refused to provide for fear of provoking an escalation of war with Russia.