Vice President Kamala Harris pledge support for Ukraine
27/9/2024 6:07
Vice President Kamala
Harris pledged support for Ukraine on Thursday and - in a veiled
reference to Donald Trump, her U.S. election rival - said those
who would have Ukraine swap land for peace with Russia were
supporting "proposals of surrender."
Harris, the Democratic candidate for president, spoke
alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White
House, a day after Trump assailed him for not making a deal with
Russia that Trump said could have ended the war.
The vice president said she would work to ensure Ukraine
prevails in the war, now in its third year, and achieves a just
peace. She then criticized former President Trump, her
Republican rival in the Nov. 5 election, without naming him.
Trump later said he would meet Zelenskiy on Friday morning
at Trump Tower in New York. While Trump and Zelenskiy spoke by
phone in July, they have not met in person since Trump's
presidential term ended in 2021.
She said "there are some" in the United States who would
force Ukraine to give up large parts of its territory and
abandon its security relationships with other nations.
"These proposals are the same as those of (Russian President
Vladimir) Putin, and let us be clear, they are not proposals for
peace. Instead, they are proposals for surrender, which is
dangerous and unacceptable," she said.
Trump has said U.S. aid to Ukraine is a waste of money and
has declined to say whether he wants Ukraine to win.
This week Trump said the U.S. gives "billions of dollars to
a man who refuses to make a deal: Zelenskiy" and added: “There
was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been
better than the situation you have right now. You have a country
that has been obliterated.”
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