Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 17Vladimir Zelensky said he was counting on the visit of US President Joe Biden to Kyiv. «I think he will come. Of course, this is his decision. The issue is safe. But I think how the leader of the United States, he must come here and see,” Zelensky said in an interview with CNN. So he answered the question of whether he wants to see Biden in Kiev. He added that he invited French President Emmanuel Macron to Ukraine. «I invited him when he gets the chance,» Zelensky said. Biden does not plan to go to Ukraine. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
