President Biden: the United States will continue to help Ukraine
The United States will continue to help Ukraine, providing missile systems and ammunition, but will neither prolong the war nor pressure Kyiv to make concessions to russia.
U.S. President Joseph Biden stated this in an article for The New York Times entitled What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine.
"America's goal is straightforward: We want to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression," Biden said.
The American President wants Ukraine to be able to fight on the battlefield and take the strongest position at the negotiating table.
"That's why I've decided that we will provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.
We will continue cooperating with our allies and partners on Russian sanctions, the toughest ever imposed on a major economy.
We will continue providing Ukraine with advanced weaponry, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, Stinger antiaircraft missiles, powerful artillery and precision rocket systems, radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, Mi-17 helicopters and ammunition.
We will also send billions more in financial assistance, as authorized by Congress," Biden said.
The President added that the United States would work with allies and partners to overcome the global food crisis, exacerbated by russia's aggression.
He promised to help European allies and others reduce their dependence on russian fossil fuels and speed up the "speed our transition to a clean energy future."
Biden also added that the United States would continue to strengthen NATO's eastern flank and that Finland and Sweden's accession to the Alliance would strengthen overall security.
"We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia. As much as I disagree with Mr. Putin, and find his actions an outrage, the United States will not try to bring about his ouster in Moscow.
So long as the United States or our allies are not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict, either by sending American troops to fight in Ukraine or by attacking Russian forces.
We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia.
My principle throughout this crisis has been "Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine." I will not pressure the Ukrainian government — in private or public — to make any territorial concessions. It would be wrong and contrary to well-settled principles to do so," he said.
The American President stressed that the talks between Ukraine and russia were not stopped because Ukraine had turned away from diplomacy, but because russia continues to wage war to take control of as much of Ukraine as possible.
"The United States will continue to work to strengthen Ukraine and support its efforts to achieve a negotiated end to the conflict," Biden promised.
"If Russia does not pay a heavy price for its actions, it will send a message to other would-be aggressors that they too can seize territory and subjugate other countries.
It will put the survival of other peaceful democracies at risk. And it could mark the end of the rules-based international order and open the door to aggression elsewhere, with catastrophic consequences the world over," Biden explained.
He also stressed that any use of nuclear weapons in this conflict would be completely unacceptable to the United States and the rest of the world.
"Americans will stay the course with the Ukrainian people because we understand that freedom is not free. That's what we have always done whenever the enemies of freedom seek to bully and oppress innocent people, and it is what we are doing now.
Vladimir Putin did not expect this degree of unity or the strength of our response. He was mistaken. If he expects that we will waver or fracture in the months to come, he is equally mistaken," Biden said.
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To recap, since the start of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States has been one of Ukraine's biggest supporters. Besides introducing sanctions against russia and a complete oil embargo, the Americans have made a historical decision by reenacting a lend-lease program created during World War II to help the allies to win the war against Nazism.
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress passed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act last month. The Senate unanimously supported the document on April 6, and the House of Representatives voted for the measure on April 28.
The document allows the U.S. president to use the military lend-lease program to speed up the transfer of weapons, military equipment, medicines, food, etc., to Ukraine.
