US President Joe Biden during a speech at the White House in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 28 US President Joe Biden said that the United States will not send troops to Ukraine. Earlier, White House pool journalists reported that Biden intends to ask Congress for an additional $ 33 billion to support Ukraine .
The US Congress has received a new request for assistance to Ukraine, said Blinken «We are not sending troops to fight the Russian military in Ukraine,» Biden said at the White House. He stressed that the declared assistance to Ukraine will not be cheap. «We are not attacking Russia,» the US president added. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. 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 Kyiv 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.
