KYIV, UKRAINE - MAY 20, 2021 - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a news conference on two years in office at the Antonov State Enterprise, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. (Photo by ddp images/Sipa USA)
News conference of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 2 years of his presidency
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House today.
Ukraine’s president is traveling to the United States in hopes of bolstering security ties with Washington DC and persuading the administration to ramp up sanctions against a new Russian gas pipeline bypassing his country.
Zelenskyy has called the U.S. failure to block the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany a grave political error. He is expected to again raise the issue during his talks today with President Biden.
Zelenskyy has described the new pipeline as a powerful geopolitical weapon for Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and backed a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine wants the U.S. to impose tougher sanctions on the Russian gas pipeline.
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