US President Biden: American weapons will not be used to strike Moscow and the Kremlin

Lina Portman4 weeks ago

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Like US President Joe Biden is visiting Normandy in France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, he wanted to reassure that American weapons would not be used to strike Moscow or the Kremlin.

Biden said this during an exclusive interview with ABC News at the Normandy American Cemetery.

President Biden was asked if US-made weapons had ever been used in Russia since he approved their use, limiting their use to areas near Kharkiv Oblast.

The president did not respond directly, but made clear that they would not be allowed to be used to target the Russian capital or the seat of government.

“They are authorized for use near the border when used across the border to attack specific targets in Ukraine,” » Biden said.

Additionally, Biden stated that “We do not authorize strikes 200 miles inside Russia and we do not authorize strikes on Moscow, on the Kremlin.”

The reporter asked Biden if he was concerned about Vladimir Putin's comments overnight that “the supply of high-precision weapons to Ukraine for strikes on Russian territory is direct participation in this war.”

Biden responded by saying he had “I have known him for over 40 years. It has worried me for 40 years. He is not an honest man.

“He is a dictator and he is fighting to hold his country together while continuing this assault,” » Biden said.

“We're not talking about giving them weapons to hit Moscow, to hit the Kremlin, to hit — just across the border, where they're getting significant fire from conventional weapons used by the Russians to get into Ukraine and kill Ukrainians,” Biden said.

D-Day

Biden is in France to commemorate the day Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944, setting off a chain of events that led to the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II .

Later Thursday, Biden plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the war effort.

At the commemoration, the President of the United States said: “We live in a time when democracy is under greater threat around the world than at any time since the end of World War II. Isolationism was not the solution 80 years ago and is not the solution today. »

Speaking in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied operation, Biden drew direct parallels between Nazi Germany and the threats facing Western democracies today, including in Eastern Europe.

The US president made special reference to Ukraine, which was “invaded by a tyrant seeking to dominate.”

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