{"id":555783,"date":"2021-06-07T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555783"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:51:14","slug":"unpleasantly-surprised-biden-never-told-ukraine-he-was-waving-sanctions-on-russian-pipeline-ukraine-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unpleasantly-surprised-biden-never-told-ukraine-he-was-waving-sanctions-on-russian-pipeline-ukraine-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unpleasantly Surprised\u2019: Biden Never Told Ukraine He Was Waving Sanctions On Russian Pipeline, Ukraine President Says"},"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%2Funpleasantly-surprised-biden-never-told-ukraine-he-was-waving-sanctions-on-russian-pipeline-ukraine-president-says%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=555783&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky learned of President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to waive sanctions on Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which entails significant national security interest for Ukraine, through the the media.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky claimed that the White House never warned him that the U.S. would be waiving Trump-era sanctions designed to hamper or stop Russia from completing another natural gas pipeline to Germany. The pipeline, Nord Stream 2, was completed late last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, to be honest, we were very surprised,\u201d Zelsnksy told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20798133-zelensky-interview-transcript?responsive=1&#038;title=1\">Axios<\/a> is an interview on Friday. Zelensky was also apparently unaware that Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced the pipeline\u2019s completion that same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly thought that when it came to Nord Stream 2, the United States remained the last standing outpost, so to say,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cWe understand that only the U.S. is capable of stopping this construction. You know, we had this first conversation with President Biden, it was a phone conversation, and I received all the signals. They were direct signals, and I was very happy about it. I know that we\u2019ve always had bipartisan support in the United States. But I\u2019ve always said, indeed, all the experts and the diplomats have had the same understanding, that Biden knows Ukraine better than any other previous, former President, and therefore he understands all the issues, and, what\u2019s most important, all the security risks. That is why, again, we were very unpleasantly surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the completion of the pipeline, Zelemsky fears that Ukraine has lost some of its leverage with Russia. The two countries have been at war since 2014 when Russia invaded and annexed part of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine, the weaker of the two, has been able to force Russia into diplomatic discussions, however, because Ukraine has served as the middle man for Russia to sell natural gas in the European market. The new pipeline will carry gas from Russia directly to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said that Biden had the ability to alleviate much suffering of the Ukraine people if Biden had carried through with the sanctions. \u201cWhat is definitely true, is that he can help, so that fewer people have to suffer. This is exactly what he has the power to influence,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president said that he was angry when he first heard the news, but that anger has turned to disappointment in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feeling of anger \u2014 it is over now,\u201d Zelensky told Axios. \u201cI feel that \u2026 you know \u2026 it is quite a different feeling. It is a feeling of disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said that the Biden administration had effectively supplied Putin with \u201ca real weapon\u201d to use against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that this is a weapon, a real weapon, and I speak openly about it. A weapon in the hands of the Russian Federation, and it is not very understandable, I feel, and definitely not expected, that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the United States because it is an exemplary civilization, an exemplary democracy in the world,\u201d Zelensky said, adding that Biden\u2019s decision to waive sanctions \u201cis definitely not aimed at supporting Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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