President Joe Biden reaffirmed U.S support for Ukraine in a call Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowing that the U.S. and its European allies would mount a strong response should Russia launch a military offensive.
Biden told Zelenskyy that the U.S. and its European allies are prepared to pursue "strong economic measures" to punish Russia and provide additional defense hardware, in addition to boosting the capabilities of NATO allies near Ukraine, if the Kremlin moves forward with an invasion.
In Thursday's phone call, which lasted just under 90 minutes, Biden told Zelenskyy that he made it clear to Putin this week that "one nation can't force another nation to change its border, one nation cannot tell another to change its politics, and nations can't tell others who they can work with," the senior administration official said.
The military standoff could present Biden with his biggest foreign policy test since the chaotic U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, followed by the Taliban's regaining control of the country, drawing bipartisan criticism.As vice president, Biden was heavily involved in U.S. relations with Ukraine. At the time, Russia had invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
The Biden administration has said any decision about Ukraine's entering NATO would be made between those countries.
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