{"id":170902,"date":"2023-12-12T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=170902"},"modified":"2023-12-12T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T21:30:20","slug":"president-biden-hosts-a-bilateral-meeting-with-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=170902","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Hosts a Bilateral Meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;President Biden Hosts a Bilateral Meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12122023-11823-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12122023-11823-PM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12122023-11823-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12122023-11823-PM-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Fullscreen-capture-12122023-11823-PM-570x322.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ue7XDjMkN8\" title=\"President Biden Hosts a Bilateral Meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Transcript<\/p>\n<p>0:00<br \/>\nwell Mr President welcome back thank you<br \/>\n0:03<br \/>\nso much welcome back to the White House<br \/>\n0:04<br \/>\nthank you so much and the Oval Office<br \/>\n0:07<br \/>\nand uh it&#8217;s great to be at your side<br \/>\n0:09<br \/>\nonce again we&#8217;re going to stay at your<br \/>\n0:10<br \/>\nside you know we stand at a real<br \/>\n0:13<br \/>\ninflection point in history I know you<br \/>\n0:15<br \/>\nand I have talked about this where the<br \/>\n0:16<br \/>\ndecisions we make now are going to<br \/>\n0:19<br \/>\ndetermine the future for decades to come<br \/>\n0:22<br \/>\nparticularly in Europe this is one of<br \/>\n0:24<br \/>\nthose moments Congress needs to pass a<br \/>\n0:27<br \/>\nsupplemental funding Ukraine before they<br \/>\n0:30<br \/>\nbreak the holiday recess before they<br \/>\n0:33<br \/>\ngive Putin the greatest Christmas gift<br \/>\n0:35<br \/>\nthey could possibly give him and uh so<br \/>\n0:38<br \/>\nbecause we&#8217;ve seen what happens when<br \/>\n0:40<br \/>\ndictators don&#8217;t pay the price for the<br \/>\n0:42<br \/>\ndamage and the debt and destruction they<br \/>\n0:44<br \/>\ncause and they keep going when no price<br \/>\n0:47<br \/>\nis paid the threats to America to Europe<br \/>\n0:50<br \/>\nand the world will only keep Rising if<br \/>\n0:53<br \/>\nwe don&#8217;t act and I intend that we act<br \/>\n0:56<br \/>\nAmerican people Democrats and<br \/>\n0:58<br \/>\nRepublicans uh iike I think understand<br \/>\n1:02<br \/>\nthis and they understand the very real<br \/>\n1:04<br \/>\nfight that&#8217;s going on right now in the<br \/>\n1:07<br \/>\nwinter this winter Putin plans once<br \/>\n1:09<br \/>\nagain to bombard Ukraine&#8217;s electric grid<br \/>\n1:12<br \/>\nintends to with rockets and plunging<br \/>\n1:15<br \/>\nfamilies in the darkness in the coldest<br \/>\n1:17<br \/>\npart of the year and doing great damage<br \/>\n1:20<br \/>\nwe can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t let him succeed we<br \/>\n1:22<br \/>\nmustn&#8217;t let him succeed that Mr<br \/>\n1:25<br \/>\nPresident I&#8217;ve called on Congress to do<br \/>\n1:27<br \/>\nthe right thing to stand with Ukraine<br \/>\n1:29<br \/>\nand stand up for freedom and I want to<br \/>\n1:32<br \/>\nthank you for being here you&#8217;re going to<br \/>\n1:33<br \/>\nhelp the cause and I don&#8217;t want you<br \/>\n1:35<br \/>\ngiveing up hope thank you so much Mr<br \/>\n1:38<br \/>\nPresident dear journalists um are really<br \/>\n1:41<br \/>\nglad to be here at the White House today<br \/>\n1:44<br \/>\nand share some very important messages<br \/>\n1:46<br \/>\nthank you for invitation and I like to<br \/>\n1:48<br \/>\nthank American our partners for the<br \/>\n1:50<br \/>\nsupport and today the special day a<br \/>\n1:54<br \/>\nspecial day for Ukraine Ukrainian people<br \/>\n1:55<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a day of Our Land forces almost<br \/>\n1:58<br \/>\n600,000 incredibly Brave Ukrainian sons<br \/>\n2:02<br \/>\nand daughters are on the battlefield and<br \/>\n2:04<br \/>\nthey were powerful this is their day and<br \/>\n2:07<br \/>\nand really they prove everything day<br \/>\n2:10<br \/>\nthat Ukraine can win and our forces are<br \/>\n2:13<br \/>\nadvancing and we&#8217;ve successfully<br \/>\n2:15<br \/>\ndefeated Russia in the Black Sea and<br \/>\n2:17<br \/>\nRussia is hiding the Rems of its Neville<br \/>\n2:22<br \/>\nFleet in remote base and meanwhile<br \/>\n2:26<br \/>\nUkraine has set up an expert Corridor in<br \/>\n2:28<br \/>\nthe Black Sea that that&#8217;s really<br \/>\n2:30<br \/>\nboosting our economy and Global Food<br \/>\n2:33<br \/>\nsecurity yesterday I met with the IMF<br \/>\n2:36<br \/>\nand World bank and they impressed with<br \/>\n2:39<br \/>\nthe Ukraine&#8217;s economic growth almost 5%<br \/>\n2:43<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s significant Ukraine is<br \/>\n2:44<br \/>\ngradually becoming less depend on Aid<br \/>\n2:48<br \/>\nand we are moving to the right I think<br \/>\n2:50<br \/>\nright direction and I want to discuss<br \/>\n2:52<br \/>\nwith the president how how to strengthen<br \/>\n2:54<br \/>\nit especially enhancing our air defense<br \/>\n2:58<br \/>\nand ability to destroy Russia&#8217;s<br \/>\n3:00<br \/>\nLogistics our goals for 24 are clear<br \/>\n3:03<br \/>\ntake away Russia&#8217;s superiority and<br \/>\n3:06<br \/>\ndisrup their offensive operations and I<br \/>\n3:10<br \/>\nthink it&#8217;s real and also some other<br \/>\n3:13<br \/>\nimportant things I met with the heads of<br \/>\n3:15<br \/>\nAmerican defense companies yesterday<br \/>\n3:18<br \/>\nthank you very much Mr President really<br \/>\n3:19<br \/>\npowerful companies I thank them and<br \/>\n3:23<br \/>\nthanks all the workers Engineers<br \/>\n3:26<br \/>\nmanagers who buil and build the strength<br \/>\n3:30<br \/>\nof American weapons helping Ukraine<br \/>\n3:33<br \/>\nboost the development of arsenals of<br \/>\n3:36<br \/>\ndemocracy President Biden agreed and we<br \/>\n3:39<br \/>\nspoke about it in September to join<br \/>\n3:42<br \/>\nweapon Co production is very important<br \/>\n3:44<br \/>\nfor us and we&#8217;ll discuss how to speed up<br \/>\n3:47<br \/>\nthis and all we also need to work faster<br \/>\n3:51<br \/>\nwith the Frozen Russian assets over 300<br \/>\n3:54<br \/>\nbillion<br \/>\n3:55<br \/>\npren uh assets from terrorists and we<br \/>\n3:59<br \/>\nshould should use it to protect against<br \/>\n4:01<br \/>\nRussian Terror and I want to talk about<br \/>\n4:04<br \/>\nsome details regarding our reforms and<br \/>\n4:07<br \/>\nEU integration Ukraine continues to<br \/>\n4:10<br \/>\nreform its institutions even during the<br \/>\n4:12<br \/>\nwar is very important for us and we are<br \/>\n4:15<br \/>\nsuccessful I think that&#8217;s very important<br \/>\n4:18<br \/>\nand people need to be confident that<br \/>\n4:19<br \/>\nfreedom is secure and strong enough to<br \/>\n4:22<br \/>\nwin thank you very much Mr thank you<br \/>\n4:25<br \/>\nbefore the<br \/>\n4:26<br \/>\nPress before the Press whoa<br \/>\n4:31<br \/>\nwhoa hush up a second okay I got one<br \/>\n4:33<br \/>\nmore thing to say I just signed another2<br \/>\n4:37<br \/>\nmillion draw down from the Department of<br \/>\n4:40<br \/>\nDefense for Ukraine that&#8217;ll be coming<br \/>\n4:43<br \/>\nthank you thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;President Biden Hosts a Bilateral Meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine Transcript 0:00 well Mr President welcome back thank you 0:03 so much welcome back to the White House 0:04 thank you so much and the Oval Office 0:07 and uh it&#8217;s great to be at your side 0:09 once again we&#8217;re going 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