Justin Sink y Jennifer Jacobs
Hoy 16:02
US President Joe Biden said he did not believe Vladimir Putin could continue to wage his war in Ukraine for years, citing the economic and political cost in Russia.
“I don’t think Russia can keep the war going,” Biden said Thursday at a news conference in Helsinki, when asked by a reporter if the war — now approaching 18 months — could drag on for years.
“I think there will be a circumstance where President Putin will ultimately decide that it is not in Russia’s best interest – economically, politically or otherwise – to continue this war, but I cannot predict exactly how. that will happen”, Biden added. “Putin has already lost the war. Putin has a real problem.”
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Biden visited Finland after attending the NATO summit in Lithuania earlier this week. The alliance’s handling of Ukraine caused major drama at the alliance meeting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his disappointment before the meeting to learn that his country would not be given a specific deadline or conditions for joining NATO.
In a tweet before arriving in Vilnius, Zelensky called the lack of specificity “unprecedented and absurd.”. He also expressed concern that the US and other allies may be holding up NATO membership as a possible concession in future peace talks with Russia.
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But the Ukrainian leader moderated his tone once at the summit, saying he was pleased with a package signaling intent to admit Ukraine in the future, along with promises of new security guarantees from the US and other Group nations. of the seven
Biden and Zelensky held a bilateral meeting for almost an hourand the US president said Thursday that he believed Ukraine’s leader “ends happy.”
Biden previously said that Ukraine is not yet ready for membership and should not be invited until the war with Russia is resolved and Ukraine adopts economic and democratic reforms, as well as changes to make Kiev’s military more interconnected with the forces of NATO.