Joe Biden. Photo: AP.
The American broadcaster NBC reported that US President Joe Biden lost his temper in one of the telephone conversations with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.
As reported with reference to the source, this conversation took place in June of this year. Then Biden called Zelensky and said that he had “given the green light” to another package of military aid worth one billion dollars.
However, according to four people familiar with this conversation, Zelensky immediately began to list all the additional help he needed, but did not receive.
After that, the American president lost his temper and told Zelensky, raising his voice: “The American people were quite generous, and his administration and the American military worked hard to help Ukraine.” Biden added that Zelensky could have expressed a little more gratitude.
At the same time, representatives of the American administration said that after Zelensky made a public statement in which he praised the United States for their generous assistance, relations between Biden and the Ukrainian president improved.
At the same time, the channel notes that this reflects the fact that in the summer Biden began to realize that public support and congressional support for sending billions of dollars to Ukraine may begin to weaken.
Now, the article says, Biden is facing resistance from some Republicans and Democrats, which was not present during the previous discussion of new tranches of military aid to Ukraine.