(Kiev) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Tuesday to “stop the Russian aggressor” “as soon as possible”, during a telephone interview with his American counterpart Joe Biden.
Posted at 12:40 p.m.
Updated at 12:46 p.m.
“I just spoke with the American president […] We must stop the aggressor as soon as possible,” Zelensky tweeted after the interview, on the sixth day of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
During their meeting, the two presidents discussed, among other things, Western sanctions against Russia and the assistance provided by the United States and other countries to Ukraine in defense matters, Zelensky added.
The phone conversation comes as Ukraine faces a major military offensive from Russia, which appears to have intensified its assault on the capital Kiev and the country’s second city, Kharkiv (east).