24 April 2024,   15:40
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US will help Ukraine, but President Biden didn’t change his position on declaring a no-fly zone - Jen Psaki

“Well, first, let me say that the President watched the speech - I know some of you asked this, so let me just do this now. He watched the speech from his residence, in his private library.

As you heard him say, he thought that President Zelenskyy was passionate, was powerful. And certainly he - and he watched the totality of it.

We are in very close touch with the Ukrainians. Nothing that he asked for or said today was a surprise in that sense. And if we were President Zelenskyy, we would be asking for everything possible as well and continuing to ask for it, because he is watching his country and his people be attacked and brutalized by President Putin and the Russian military.

But how President Biden makes decisions is through the prism of our own national security. And as we’ve said before, a no-fly zone would require implementation, it would require us potentially shooting down Russian planes, NATO shooting down Russian planes. And we are not interested in getting into World War Three”, - said Jen Psaki.

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