US President Joe Biden addressing the NATO summit in MadridWASHINGTON, June 30 President United States Joe Biden at a press conference following the NATO summit made a reservation and expressed his intention to protect the Ukrainians from themselves.
«We will be with the Ukrainians to make sure that the Ukrainians will not defeat them. That is, that the Russians will not defeat them,» he said. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to liberate Donbass. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» It is attended by about 40 heads of state and government, including 30 allied countries, four invited countries of the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea), four other EU member countries, but not members of the alliance , as well as the heads of the European Commission and the European Council.Biden got «excited» and confused Sweden with Switzerland