US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Zelenski at the White House Pool / ABACA / GTRES
The president of Ukraine, Volodomir Zelenski, achieved his long-awaited meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
The neighboring country of Russia was for a time a fundamental piece in American politics due to the use that former President Donald Trump made of it to investigate the alleged corruption of the current president, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter.
The long-awaited meeting of the two leaders had to be delayed for two days due to the crisis in Washington after the chaotic withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan.
It has been almost two years since Trump and Zelenski were caught in a case that led to
Donald Trump's
first
impeachment
due to the accusation by the US Congress that Trump asked Zelenski - a comedian who came to power by surprise. in 2019 - to launch a corruption investigation against the Biden family, to harm the Democratic hopeful in the 2020 election.
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Since occupying the White House, Biden has only received one other European leader, who was also outgoing, as was the case with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. However, sources from the Biden Administration, quoted by the agency France Presse, assured that "President Zelenski and Ukraine have received as much, if not more, attention from this Administration than any other European country."
The meeting between Biden and Zelenski staged the commitment that the United States has towards the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, since since that former country under Soviet orbit achieved its independence more than 30 years ago, strategic collaboration “has never been as strong as now, ”according to the White House. Kiev fears Moscow's continued war escalations in connection with the dispute over Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and supports the separatists who control much of eastern Ukraine.
The Biden White House decision to lift sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the Russian state energy giant Gazprom, did not sit well with the Zelenski government.
The Joe Biden Administration is concerned about the geostrategic implications of the pipeline, which will transport natural gas between Russia and Germany, leaving Ukraine out.
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