US President Joe Biden delivering a speech in Warsaw, Poland. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 2Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News that he hopes US President Joe Biden, whom he called a «great power leader,» is not afraid of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said that there are delays in the delivery of military «aid» to Ukraine.
"If the process continues to be delayed, the transfer of weapons will slow down, people will ask if there is any game behind it. We don't want to believe that our partners are playing behind our backs", he added.
Asked if he attributed the supply slowdown to Biden's fears of Putin, he replied: «I don't know if Biden is afraid of Putin. I want to believe he's not afraid because he's a great power leader.» «I hope that doesn't happen.» not with any US president to be afraid of Russia,” Zelensky added. His remarks were translated into English.Ukraine became a cover operation for reshaping the worldRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation as of March 31, since the beginning of the operation, 81% of Ukrainian military aircraft (124 out of 152), 75% of tanks and other armored vehicles (1815 out of 2416), half of the helicopter fleet have been destroyed (77 out of 149) and so on. According to the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, the Air Force and Air Defense of Ukraine «are practically destroyed», and the Navy «ceased to exist.» Biden's son gave him a lot of trouble again