Political game: former MP Hopko on Biden's apology for delaying weapons for Ukraine

She expressed this opinion on Espreso TV.

"It's a political game, it's a campaign, because the US president said why there was a delay, throwing a stone in the garden of the Congress and the Republican Party. If President Biden apologized for the fact that the United States, together with the United Kingdom and other countries, allowed genocide to take place after 8 years of attempts at a political and diplomatic settlement that failed, it would be absolutely serious. If these countries had made efforts to ensure that Ukraine did everything this year to liberate Crimea, provided us with the necessary number of ATACMS, Tomahawk, convinced Scholz from TAURUS, then these apologies would have been perceived as serious in terms of commitment to the defeat of the aggressor state. I see these apologies as part of a game for the domestic American audience,” said Hopko.

According to her, it is important that the United States is aware of the delay in American aid, which has resulted in irreparable human losses at the front and in the Russian advance in some areas. Therefore, on the one hand, it is important that there is this awareness, but I would like to see a clear strategy to bring Ukraine's victory closer.

"I really want the United States to show its readiness to provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons to defeat the enemy, to implement the promised hellish sanctions with complete economic isolation of the Russian Federation, now that the Peace Summit is being prepared. Now is the time to understand what mistakes the West has made over the past 8 years, allowing a full-scale invasion that has become a genocide. When the United States finally recognizes Russia as a terrorist state and Russian aggression as genocide, then these apologies will make sense,” the former MP emphasized.

• On June 6, US President Joe Biden in France, at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, assured Kyiv's allies of their support, saying that “Ukrainians fight with exceptional courage” and “never give up.
• On June 7, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed to US President Joe Biden that Western military instructors be sent to Ukraine for training, but the American president did not agree.