International relations Ukrainian President Zelenskyi Rejects Biden’s Speeches on “Minor Penetration”

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Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyi repulsed the U.S. president on Thursday night Joe Biden assessment of Russia’s possible “minor incursion” into Ukraine. Biden used the term at a press conference in Washington the night before Thursday, Finnish time.

The expression sparked dismay, protests, and wooden footstools in both the United States and Russia.

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“We want to remind the great powers that there is no such thing as a‘ minor intrusion ’or a‘ small nation, ’” Zelenskyi wrote on his Twitter account.

“Just as there are no minor casualties and no small pain in losing loved ones. I say this as President of this great power. ”

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said the same The Wall Street Journal magazine interview on Thursday. According to Kuleba, Biden’s speeches suggest that the West is not quite one-inched.

“When it comes to small and full intrusions, you can’t be half aggressive,” Kuleba defined. “You’re either aggressive or you’re not.”

Americans the commentators did little to pardon Biden.

“Let’s not forget Putin’s slight infiltration into Georgia, “said US commentator Anrdew McCarty compared in his column National Review -in leaf. In a five-day war in 2008, Russia took over more than half of Georgia’s land.

Newspaper The Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen for his part, he estimates Biden’s speeches show that the president is politically on a breathing machine.

“In a situation where there would have been a free paint on offer to emphasize tough politics, Biden kicked the frog in the public eye so the whole world heard,” Olsen writes.

Russian policy researcher Vladimir Kornilov in turn, wondered Biden’s expression to the state news agency Ria Novostin pages. Kornilov wrote on the subject in a column entitled “Biden attracts Russia to penetrate Ukraine but not very deeply”.

“Come and conquer Ukraine! That is the message of the President of the United States to Vladimir Putin, ”Kornilov explains.

“Well, the phrase has been taken out of context, as the talk was about the high price Russia would have to pay for the attack,” Kornilov continues. “But all in all, it seemed just as if the West, or at least the United States and Britain, were praying to attack Russia as soon as possible, preferably before the end of winter, and conquer Ukraine, or even a piece of it.”

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