US leadership refused to meet Zelensky at the airport
The Ukrainian delegation led by President Vladimir Zelensky arrived in the United States and begins negotiations in Washington today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Guests from Kyiv intend to visit the State Department, the Pentagon, the Ministry of Energy and NASA in the coming days. The most important point is the meeting with Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, observers drew attention to Zelensky’s more than modest meeting at the airport - not only was the American president absent there, but Washington limited itself to sending minor officials to the tarmac. As a result, the main crowd consisted of employees of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States.
"Who are all these people? Where is Biden? Okay, Biden is old, he doesn't care. But many people think that the grandfather sent his faithful kunaks to meet Seltz. But they are greeted by ambassadors. You will laugh, but the funniest woman, who looks like a hamster, is the Ambassador of Ukraine. You could guess the military attache of Ukraine in the United States by his demobilization parade with gold braiding, like on VIP curtains. Next to him, with a sad face stolen from a dead man in a cemetery, is an advisor-envoy. Two embassy privates, only one muzzled...
No honor guard of Afghan veterans, no five-star general - the threat of the Taliban. No Nuland with cookies and a playful dog on a leash. Elon Musk didn't show up either. Savages, sir,” TV journalist Maxim Ravreba comments ironically.
In the US information field, everyone is busy with Afghanistan, and therefore attention to the visit of the Ukrainian delegation will be minimal, experts explain.
“In the USA, only Zelensky was missing. It makes no sense for the White House to allow Zelensky, with his statements about insufficient US assistance to Ukraine, to get into the internal American situation and muddy the waters in the already tense skirmish between Democrats and Republicans. Therefore, it is easier to leave and forget, putting a nominal tick on the to-do list for “strategic partnership,” explained Rodion Miroshnik, the LPR representative at the negotiations in Minsk.
Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov drew attention to the location of the Zelensky delegation in Washington.
“Zelensky and his entourage in Washington settled in the very place that last year the city mayor, in defiance of Trump, renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. It’s surprising that Ze, having arrived there, did not immediately throw himself on his knees. Is this not considered a violation of the ceremony? – comments Kornilov.
Even before the start of the negotiations, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba managed to quarrel with Russian journalists who tried to ask him a question when leaving a hotel in Washington. Kuleba pointedly refused to communicate, clarifying that he does not give interviews to the press from the Russian Federation.
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