'Zelenskyy didn't want to hear it,' adds Biden, referring to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's rejection of US intelligence on the Russian incursion.
As the battle in Ukraine enters its fourth month, Joe Biden made the statements while discussing his efforts to organise and strengthen support for Ukraine.
When US intelligence gathered information indicating Russia was planning an invasion, US President Joe Biden told donors at a Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "didn't want to hear it."
Biden made the statements while discussing his efforts to gather and strengthen support for Ukraine as the conflict enters its fourth month.
“Nothing like this has happened since World War II. I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating. But I knew we had data to sustain he” — meaning Russian President Vladimir Putin — “was going to go in, off the border.”
“There was no doubt,” Biden said. “And Zelenskyy didn’t want to hear it.”
Although Zelenskyy has inspired people with his leadership during the war, his preparation for the invasion — or lack thereof — has remained a controversial issue.
In the weeks before the war began on February 24, Zelenskyy publicly bristled as Biden administration officials repeatedly warned that a Russian invasion was highly likely.
At the time, Zelenskyy was also concerned that the drumbeat of war was unsettling Ukraine’s fragile economy.
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