Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released a video alongside top government officials, as Russian forces threatened the capital, Kyiv.
RELATED: Ukrainians in America worry about their homeland as Russia invades
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke with President Joe Biden on Friday about strengthening sanctions against Russia and other steps to retaliate for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Strengthening sanctions, concrete defense assistance and an anti-war coalition have just been discussed with @POTUS,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter, thanking the U.S. for its strong support” of Ukraine.
The White House confirmed that Biden spoke with Zelenskyy for 40 minutes but provided no other details.
The United States and Europe have already hit Russia with sanctions that will impact multiple sectors of the Russia economy. Ukraine has argued that a tougher economic response is needed and has asked for additional defense assistance.
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The highest respect for the president of Ukraine
Thats the real president👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
🇨🇦🇱🇨🇺🇲🇺🇦
God help Ukraine
I love this guy!
True leader's don't need to bluster, shout, threaten, to feed their ego. True leader's are quiet, firm, resolved. They don't start a fight,but by God, they will surely finish it! What magnificent men!
ZELENSKY is a WAR CRIMINAL stop glorifying a US puppet who bombed shelled his OWN CITIZENS leaving 15 000 DEAD and another 33 000 wounded .. INSANE the media is making this Nazi loving both on a hero .. Everyone should Google "AZOV BATTALION" a NAZI group who have taken over Ukraine's Military, they all follow orders from this coward ZELENSKY and POROSHENKO his predecessor
God bless the ukraine
Lowkey drippy tho….
I'm sure if it comes to it , this man will take down a Dozen of the Putin's minions… I wish him safety and indipendence..
Слава Україні Glory to Ukraine ウクライナに栄光あれ Pray from Japan…
Tanrı yardımcınız olsun amen
Tuuth
Putin is off of his rockers. However, people tend to forget, Ukraine for years has essentially CUT OFF THE WATER SUPPLY FOR YEARS IN CRIMEA!!. That’s millions of people without water, and one of the bombing targets was the Damn the Ukrainians built to prevent this water! Maybe this war is bigger than what we think and nothing is really getting shown in the media.
Ukraine must be NEUTRAL. We won’t a WW3 and the end of the world.
When a comedian becomes the leader of a country, then the tragedy of the country begins.All he knows is how to act a hero, not how to save a country and its citizens from peril
I can see Zelenskyy’s balls for miles.
Dumb but stupid
Posers! Kiev is not in danger yet. So they flaunt …)) These so-called "heroes" are murderers of their own civilians. For 8 years, people have been being killed in Ukraine (Donbass). Instead of school, children sit in basements. You (who calls the killer a hero) do you know that? And by order of the moron Zelensky, they gave weapons to everyone without registration, to whom they give them. Thus, they condemned the country to lawlessness for many years. Murders of each other have already been recorded in Ukraine. For Ukrainians, he is Mr. Nobody.
The media is spreading lies. Also fact check me for the facts I state below
-Ukrainian father crying as he hugged his daughter was actually a pro-Russian rebel in Donbas preparing to fight Nazi Azov Battalion
– 13 Ukrainian soldiers "killed" on Snake Island actually surrendered and are believed to be alive and well
– Russian tank that ran over civilian car in – Kyiv was a Strela-10 Ukrainian air defense system
– Photos of Zelensky in military garb with a – helmet on are from 2021 border inspection
– Video of Ukrainian MiG-29 shooting down a Russian Su-35 was a Digital Combat Simulator animation
– Russian cruise missile that blew up the side of a residential building was actually a Ukrainian air-defense missile fired by the Ukrainian military
– Viral video of Ukrainian pilot shooting down Russian jet was a screen recording from Arma 3 video game
Share your death
tutttt…………………………..
This video looks like it's been edited, looks so fake. Focus on the border of the people.
He definitely has my full respect also. I'm south korean but his statement makes me feel patriotic for this country. Captain Ukraine! He is certain to survive and could be one of our global leader.