US will not engage in the conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine: Biden
“We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people”, Biden said
US President Joe Biden expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian people in his State of the Union address but reiterated that the US would not deploy troops to Ukraine.
"Let each of us here tonight in this Chamber, if you're able to stand, stand and send an unmistakable signal to Ukraine and to the world," Biden said, adding "We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people", reports the CNN.
The US President told the members of Congress gathered for his State of the Union address: "Let me be clear — our forces are not engaged and will not engage in the conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine,"
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American troops were deployed to Europe not to fight in Ukraine, "but to defend our NATO allies in the event that Putin decides to keep moving west," he said.
"For that purpose, we have mobilised American ground forces, air squadrons, ship deployments to protect NATO countries including Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia," Biden added.
Previously, Joe Biden has said the US would hold fast to NATO's Article 5 principle, which says that an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all member counties.
In his State of the Union address, he pledged, "As I've made crystal clear, the United States and our Allies will defend every inch of territory of NATO countries with the full force of our collective power."
He added that the US and its allies were providing "more than $1 billion in direct assistance to Ukraine," including military, economic, and humanitarian aide.
