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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jinsong Oh = U.S. President Joe Biden said on the 10th (local time) that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not heed a warning from the United States that Russia might invade Ukraine.
According to AFP reports, President Biden told reporters he met at a fundraiser in Los Angeles that day, “[President Vladimir Putin]was trying to enter the border. There was no doubt regarding it,” Zelensky said. “I didn’t want to listen, and so did a lot of others,” he said.
“I understand why they didn’t want to hear it,” he added. “But he[Putin]got in.”
“I know a lot of people thought I was exaggerating the situation,” Biden said.
In fact, U.S. intelligence officials warned of an invasion earlier this year following Russia concentrated its forces around the Ukrainian border at the end of last year under the pretext of training. In fact, on February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine.
The AFP reported that the US warning of a Russian invasion was met with distrust and even the European allies were subtly critical of the US as creating too much unrest.
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