Time told about the ‘cool’ relationship between Kamala Harris and Zelensky
15- 1.08.2024, 5:57
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The US vice president dismissed the idea of preventive sanctions against Russian Federation just days before the war.
In February 2022, just days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US Vice President Kamala Harris rejected the idea of preventive sanctions against Moscow proposed by the Ukrainian side.
This is stated in the article of the Time.
newspaper.
The author of the article Simon Shuster tells about the meeting between Harris and Volodymyr Zelensky on the margins of the Munich Security Conference in 2022. Both agreed at the time that a Russian attack was very likely to happen in the near future.
Zelensky called on the United States to impose preventive sanctions against Russia, arguing that this would force Vladimir Putin to reconsider his decision to invade, and to provide Ukraine with all the necessary weapons - particularly anti-aircraft systems, fighter jets and artillery.
According to Ukrainian officials present, Harris rejected both offers.
As Time's White House interlocutor explained, the US considered the threat of sanctions to be a more effective deterrent than imposing them, and providing Ukraine with weapons could reinforce Putin's belief that Ukraine is a ‘NATO client state.’
‘Vice President Harris has been a strong advocate of long-term U.S. support for Ukraine and has repeatedly expressed an unwavering commitment to supporting the people of Ukraine as they defend themselves against Russia's brutal aggression,’ he added.
The Time article claims that it was the 2022 meeting that ‘set the tone for the relationship’ between Zelensky and Harris, ‘which has never been particularly warm’ (though it doesn't explain why exactly).
It is mentioned that the vice president has never been to Ukraine, including after the full-scale invasion, although she has met with the Ukrainian president six times, most recently on the margins of the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland in June.
‘In meetings with Ukrainian officials in recent years, she did show sympathy for their fate, as one of them put it ‘but I would call it formal sympathy, according to protocol’,’ writes Simon Schuster.
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