If Russia invades Ukraine, the United States and its allies “will respond energetically,” assured US President Joe Biden to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call this Sunday.
“President Biden has made it clear that the United States and its allies will respond vigorously if Russia further invades Ukraine,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
Joe Biden pleads for “de-escalation”
She also indicated that Joe Biden had shown his support for diplomatic efforts, including talks scheduled for January 9 and 10 in Geneva between high-level American and Russian officials.
Joe Biden, who multiplies the warnings to Vladimir Putin and pleads for a “de-escalation”, assured to have again warned the Russian president against an attempted invasion of Ukraine during a telephone interview Thursday. “I made it clear to President Putin that we would adopt severe sanctions and that we would increase our presence in Europe, among our NATO allies,” Joe Biden said on Friday.
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