保护主权和领土完整

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔・泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelenskyy）于12月21日抵达华盛顿D.C.，与美国总统乔・拜登举行会晤，并在美国国会发表演讲。以下为拜登总统在与泽连斯基总统举行的联合记者会上的讲话摘译。  

拜登总统：“对乌克兰人民，我想对他们所有人说：你们展现了――你们在独裁者专横的欲望前展示了你们反对侵略的坚定立场。这些独裁者错误地认为……他们或许能把强权变成公理，而他们是做不到的…… 

[我们]深信不疑，乌克兰的战斗有更重大的意义。美国人民知道，在对自由、民主，以及主权和领土完整的核心原则如此悍然的攻击面前，如果我们袖手旁观，世界将必然面临更严重的后果…… 

今天，我在此宣布我们对乌克兰的下一批安全援助：一份18.5亿美元的一揽子援助，既包括直接交付乌克兰所需的装备，也包括弹药合约，为乌克兰提供它的枪炮、坦克和火箭发射装置在未来数月将会需要的弹药。 

关键的是，除了精确航空弹药这些新能力，这份一揽子援助还将包括一个爱国者导弹连，这将――我们将训练乌克兰部队操作它。这是正在开展的努力的一部分，用于帮助加强乌克兰的空中防御……  

加在一起，今天的新增安全援助加上人道主义资金，使得我们对乌克兰人民追加的这笔支持达到22亿美元。  

我们应当把俄罗斯当前的所作所为讲清楚。俄罗斯在故意攻击乌克兰的关键基础设施，在一年中最寒冷、最黑暗的时候摧毁为乌克兰人民供暖和照明的系统。俄罗斯正在利用严冬作为武器――让人们饥寒交迫、孤立无援……   

乌克兰人民在今年已承受太多本不必承受的苦难与损失。但是我想要你知道，泽连斯基总统……这一路上的每一步，美国人民都与你在一起，而且我们将继续与你在一起。无论需要多久，我们都将继续与你在一起。” 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/21/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-zelenskyy-of-ukraine-in-joint-press-conference/ 

Protecting Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington, D.C. on December 21 to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and address the U.S. Congress.  Below are excerpts from President Biden’s remarks at a joint press conference with President Zelenskyy.

President Biden: “To Ukrainian people, I say to them all: You have demonstrated — you have shown your strong stand against aggression in the face of the imperial appetites of autocrats who wrongfully believed… they might be able to make might right, and they’re not able to do it…

[We] understand in our bones that Ukraine’s fight is part of something much bigger.  The American people know that if we stand by in the face of such blatant attacks on liberty and democracy and the core principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, the world would surely face worse consequences…

Today, I’m announcing the next tranche of our security assistance to Ukraine: $1.85 billion package of security assistance that includes both direct transfers of equipment to — that Ukraine needs, as well as contracts to supply ammunition Ukraine will need in the months ahead for its artillery, its tanks, and its rocket launchers.

Critically, in addition to these new capabilities like precision aerial munitions, the package will include a Patriot missile battery, which will — and on which we’ll train Ukrainian forces to operate as part of the ongoing effort to help bolster Ukraine’s air defense…

Altogether, today’s new security assistance with humanitarian funding amounts to $2.2 billion in additional support for the Ukrainian people.

We should be clear about what Russia is doing.  It is purposefully attacking Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, destroying the systems that provide heat and light to the Ukrainian people during the coldest, darkest part of the year.  Russia is using winter as a weapon — freezing people, starving people, cutting them off from one another…

This year has brought so much needless suffering and loss to the Ukrainian people.  But I want you to know, President Zelenskyy… the American people have been with you every step of the way, and we will stay with you.  We will stay with you for as long as it takes.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/21/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-zelenskyy-of-ukraine-in-joint-press-conference/