MADRID, 11 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
US President Joe Biden criticized his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelensky, on Friday for allegedly ignoring warnings from US intelligence services that Russia would invade his country in the run-up to the 24th attack. February.
“I know that many people thought that perhaps I was exaggerating, but I knew, and we had data to support it, that (Russian President Vladimir Putin) was going to enter through the border. There was no doubt. And Zelensky did not want to hear it, nor not many people either,” Biden said in statements collected by the newspaper ‘Deadline Hollywood’.
Likewise, Biden has accused Putin of “trying to erase the culture, not just the nation” of Ukraine. In addition, the American president has maintained that his Russian counterpart considers the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, as “the seat of mother Russia”.
Biden, who made these statements after attending the IX Summit of the Americas — held in Los Angeles — at a benefit event for film producer Andrew Hauptman, insisted on several occasions to Ukraine about the possible Russian invasion.
“We are in a window where an invasion could start at any time and, to be clear, that includes the possibility of it happening during the Olympics,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on February 10.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan also justified the US alarm by saying that Russia had brought between 100,000 and 130,000 soldiers to the Ukrainian border equipped “with a strong arsenal and arranged around almost the entire country.”
