Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed frustration with outgoing President Joe Biden's decision to not impose preemptive sanctions on Russia before the 2022 invasion. Zelensky called threats of sanctions only after an invasion 'bullshit' in a recent interview, emphasizing the need for stronger action against Moscow prior to the conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lamented the hesitation on the part of outgoing President Joe Biden to preventatively sanction Russia before the 2022 full-scale invasion of his country in an interview published on Sunday, describing threats to sanction Moscow only after an invasion “bullshit.”
Zelensky recalled in his interview with Fridman that the sanctions lifting, as well as the refusal by Biden and European allies to impose further sanctions on Russia to deprive it of resources to invade Ukraine, infuriated him. The six months before February 2022 were marked by tensions between Biden and Zelensky boiling over into the public eye, beginning with an infuriated interview Zelensky gave to the Washington, DC, outlet Axios in which hehe found out that Biden lifted Trump’s Nord Stream sanctions from television and lamented that empowering the Russian natural gas industry was a direct national security threat to Ukraine.
In December 2021, two months before the Russian “special operation,” Zelensky condemned the lack of sanctions on Russia using language very similar to that in the interview with Fridman this week.
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