Ukraine has hit back at Joe Biden’s suggestion that a “minor incursion” by Russian forces into the country might not prompt a severe allied response, forcing the US president to publicly reassure Kyiv that any attack by the Kremlin would trigger strong sanctions.
“We want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations,” Volodymyr Zelensky, the pro-western Ukrainian president, wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
The White House sought to clarify Biden’s remarks almost immediately after he made them at a Wednesday evening news conference. The president suggested allies may end up “having a fight” over sanctions if the Kremlin stopped short of a full-scale invasion.
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