The White House National Security Council has denied reports that President Joe Biden warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call that Kyiv would soon be “sacked” in an invasion by Russian military forces. Emily Horne, a National Security Council spokeswoman, took to Twitter on Thursday to dismiss the alleged comments, which were reported by CNN. Horne re-tweeted a post by CNN’s Senior National Security Correspondent Alexander Marquardt which cited a senior Ukrainian official. “A Russian invasion is now virtually certain once the ground freezes, Biden said to Zelensky … Kyiv could be ‘sacked,’ Russian forces may attempt to occupy it, ‘prepare for impact’, Biden said,” the tweet reads. However, Horne insisted that the report was “not true” and that “President Biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February.” “He has previously said this publicly and we have been warning about this for months. Reports of anything more or …
White House Denies Biden Warned Ukraine’s Zelensky That Kyiv Would Soon Be ‘Sacked’ in Russian Invasion
January 28, 2022
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