The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, assured NATO on Wednesday that Joe Biden’s Government will reinforce its support for Ukraine in the few months until Donald Trump’s return to the presidency and will try to strengthen the alliance during that time.
In a meeting in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Blinken also said that The deployment of North Korean soldiers to help Russia in the Ukraine war would receive a “firm response”.
President-elect Trump, who has questioned US military support for Ukraine, says he will quickly end Russia’s war without saying how, raising concerns among US allies that he might try to force kyiv to accept peace on Moscow’s terms. Biden will leave office on January 20.
Blinken said that, after meeting with Rutte at Alliance headquarters, they discussed support for Ukraine, where the Russian army has been gaining ground on the Eastern Front.and the work that NATO must do to strengthen its defense industrial base. The outgoing US administration “will continue to strengthen everything we are doing for Ukraine,” he said..
“President Biden has every intention of overcoming the bureaucracy and taking advantage of every day to continue doing what we have done these last four years, which is to strengthen this alliance”Blinken stated. Rutte stated that “Russia has not won” in Ukraine, a country it invaded in February 2022.
“Obviously, we need to do more to ensure that Ukraine can stay in the fight and is able to push back the Russian onslaught as much as possible. and prevent (President Vladimir) Putin from succeeding in Ukraine,” he said.
Blinken is scheduled to meet later with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybihaaccording to the State Department agenda. He will also meet on Wednesday in Brussels with NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, with senior EU officials and with the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.
