Joe Biden apologises to Zelenskiy for delay in US military support

Joe Biden apologises to Zelenskiy for delay in US military support

US president says sorry for ‘weeks of not knowing’, referring to members of Congress holding up $225m aid package

The US president, Joe Biden, has apologised publicly to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for the months of delay in American military assistance that allowed Russia to make gains on the battlefield, and announced a further $225m (£177m) in military aid to Ukraine.

Meeting Zelenskiy in Paris on Friday, Biden told him: “You haven’t bowed down, you haven’t yielded at all, you continue to fight in a way that is … just remarkable. We are not going to walk away from you.”

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