Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Joe Biden for the pact but said “the question has to be for how long the unity will last,” given upcoming US elections.
US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday signed a long-term agreement designed to bolster Ukraine’s defences against Russia’s invasion.
Biden said the agreement to tap into the windfall profits on some $US280 billion in frozen Russian assets held in Europe would put that money to work for Ukraine. Biden then added: “China is not supplying weapons but the ability to produce those weapons and the technology to do it. So it is, in fact, helping Russia.”The deal to back a $US50 billion loan for Ukraine was hashed out hours before Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni opened the summit at a luxury resort in southern Italy, saying she wanted the message of the meeting to be one of dialogue with the global south and unity.
Along with Zelensky, other guests included Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fresh off his own election, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes.
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