Kiev asked to clarify Biden's words about refusing to hear warnings

Western countries did not impose preventive sanctionsagainst RUSSIA against the backdrop of the threat of the outbreak of hostilities, as requested by the Ukrainian authorities, this allows us to say that Kyiv's partners did not want to hear him,considers Nikiforov Sergey Nikiforov

The words of US President Joe Biden that his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky “did not want to hear” warnings about the threat from Russia are not entirely true, Washington can be presented with similar claims, representative of the President of Ukraine Sergey Nikiforov told LIGA.

He noted that before the start of hostilities, the presidents of the United States and Ukraine had called several times and shared their assessments and thoughts on the situation in detail, and the phrase “did not want to hear” probably needs to be clarified.

“In addition, if you remember, the President of Ukraine called on partners to introduce a package of preventive sanctions in order to encourage Russia to withdraw troops and de-escalate the situation. And here we can already say that our partners “did not want to hear us,” Nikiforov added.

Biden said Zelensky "didn't want to hear" about the Russian threat Politics

We are talking about Biden's statement, which he announced earlier in the afternoon on June 11. The US President assured that he was aware that many doubted Washington's warnings that Russia could use its troops in Ukraine. “I knew, and we had data to confirm, that he was going to cross the border. There was no doubt. And [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky didn’t want to hear that, and neither did many people.”

Zelensky, before the start of the special operation, said that he was grateful to the US intelligence, but he was more inclined to trust the intelligence of Ukraine, which did not consider such a scenario likely. Unnamed CNN interlocutors said that Kyiv's distrust of the transmitted intelligence irritated Biden and White House staff. According to them, the Ukrainian authorities considered the US warnings to be a manifestation of “excessive attention” to the situation.

After the outbreak of hostilities, Zelensky explained that Kyiv did not follow the warnings from the United States, which came a year before the start of the special operation, since “digging trenches and evacuating people from the country” would have a negative impact on the Ukrainian economy.

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Zelensky's office assessed the losses of the Ukrainian army since the start of the special operation Politics

Since the end of last year, the Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly called for the introduction of preventive measures against Russia. The National Security Council (NSDC) noted: “When our country is destroyed, against whom are you going to impose sanctions?” Zelensky also insisted on the need for preventive sanctions, in particular during a conversation with the HEAD of the European Council, Charles Michel, in mid-February. According to Axios, back in January, he called for sanctions against Nord Stream 2, because the Russian authorities "do not understand vague threats."

At the same time, Western countries did not support Kyiv's initiative, threatening to impose sanctions only if the conflict escalated. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, ruled out preventive sanctions: "We are discussing what should be done if something happens." US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken explained that prevention could deprive sanctions of a deterrent effect, and the Pentagon agreed with this assessment.

Since the end of February, the United States, the European Union, CANADA, Japan and other countries have introduced several packages of restrictive measures against Russia. The Kremlin called the restrictive measures "the madness of sanctions restrictions." Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed before the start of the special operation that Western countries intended to impose sanctions, regardless of the reason: sanctions would be imposed in any case.

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