{"id":1783238,"date":"2022-12-21T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783238"},"modified":"2022-12-21T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:19:00","slug":"zelensky-gives-biden-military-medal-as-thank-you-for-giving-him-a-ton-of-our-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-gives-biden-military-medal-as-thank-you-for-giving-him-a-ton-of-our-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Gives Biden Military Medal as &#8220;Thank You&#8221; for Giving Him a Ton of Our Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelensky-gives-biden-military-medal-as-thank-you-for-giving-him-a-ton-of-our-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-zelenskyy\">Zelenskyy<\/a> to the White House on Wednesday with renewed assurances of U.S. support amid Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you first of all,\u201d Zelenskyy told the U.S. president in a meeting in the Oval Office. \u201cIt\u2019s a great honor to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president, who said he had wanted to come to the United States earlier, offered his appreciation to Biden, the U.S. Congress, and ordinary Americans for their support.<\/p>\n<p>He gave Biden the Ukrainian cross for military merit, offered by a captain of a HIMARS rocket unit it had been awarded to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, undeserved but appreciated,\u201d Biden said, promising to give the Ukrainian captain a command coin from a U.S. battlefield in Iraq, where his son Beau had fought.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also pledged to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s ability to defend itself, particularly its air defense. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re going to be providing Ukraine with a Patriot missile battery and training your forces to be able to accurately use it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are the man of the year,\u201d the U.S. president then told Zelenskyy of Time Magazine\u2019s decision to put him on cover.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also said Russian President Vladimir Putin is \u201cescalating his assaults on civilians\u201d and trying to \u201cuse winter as a weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4938510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/12\/21\/Zelenskyy-Biden-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy wp-image-4938510 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Zelenskyy-Biden-2-1200x793-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zelenskyy Biden\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4938510 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Zelenskyy-Biden-2-1200x793-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zelenskyy Biden\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) in the Oval Office at the White House on Dec. 21, 2022. (Leah Millis\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>Zelenskyy arrived at the White House\u2019s South Lawn in a black Chevrolet with tinted windows, wearing his trademark olive green sweater and cargo pants. He stood between Biden and his wife Jill for a photo, then Biden put his arm around him as he guided him inside.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said he would hold talks with Biden to strengthen Kyiv\u2019s defense capabilities against Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>He will participate in a joint news conference with Biden, and then Zelenskyy will go to Congress on Capitol Hill to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-reuters\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/reuters-logo-.jpg\" alt=\"Reuters\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House on Wednesday with renewed assurances of U.S. support amid Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\u201cThank you first of all,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9369,9124,6962,11053,3620,5458,6565,4507,9462,4830,4505,4755,3819,11054,6540,8630],"class_list":["post-1783238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-for","tag-our","tag-the","tag-thank","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-gives","tag-giving","tag-him","tag-medal","tag-military","tag-money","tag-report","tag-ton","tag-you","tag-zelensky"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}