Biden APOLOGIZES to Zelensky for Republican delays to massive aid package and promises US will stand with Ukraine as it battles renewed Russian offensive: ‘We’re still in … completely, thoroughly’

President Joe Biden apologized to Volodymyr on Friday Zelensky because of the way hardline Republicans postponed a massive financing package earlier this year and promised that the US would continue to support Ukraine in times of need.

“We are still… fully and thoroughly engaged with it,” Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart during their meeting at a Paris hotel.

Both leaders are in the French capital on Thursday following the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which proved an opportunity to underline international alliances against totalitarianism.

Washington does Kievthe country’s largest supplier of weapons and cash, at a time when Ukraine faces an intensified Russian offensive in the east. But isolationist Republicans, egged on by the former president Donald Trumphave sometimes hindered efforts to pass funding bills Congress.

“You continue to fight in a way that is simply remarkable. It is remarkable. And we’re not going to walk away from you,” Biden said.

President Joe Biden met with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at a Paris hotel on Friday and pledged that the US would continue to support his country

‘I apologize for the weeks of not knowing what was going to happen in terms of funding, because we had problems getting the bill passed… we had the money… some of our very conservative members had it in hands.

“But we finally did it.”

As a result, Russia has tried to take advantage of Ukraine’s weapons shortages with its new momentum.

The meeting comes amid a new round of US support. Washington announced Thursday it will send another $225 million in aid, including ammunition for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, mortar systems and artillery rounds.

President Joe Biden used the D-Day commemorations to underline the importance of alliances

This week the French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will provide Ukraine with its Mirage fighter jet.

The American president and his Ukrainian counterpart were both in Normandy a day earlier for the 80th anniversary of D-Daytheir planes were parked next to each other at Caen airport.

Biden took the opportunity to warn of the dangers of isolationism and to underline his commitment to it Ukraine.

“Isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and it is not the answer today,” Biden said in his speech at the American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, drawing his biggest applause.

“We will not walk away,” Biden said. “Because if we do that, Ukraine will be subjugated and it won’t stop there.”

President Zelensky had an emotional meeting with D-Day veteran Melvin Hurwitz, 99, a former U.S. Air Force pilot. “You saved Europe,” he told Hurwitz

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron join hands upon arrival at the ceremony. France said this week it will send Mirage fighter jets to Kiev

Zelensky shared a moving moment with a D-Day veteran during his visit. When 99-year-old Melvin Hurwitz told him, “You are the savior of the people,” Zelensky quickly leaned over to hug him and said, “No, no, no. You saved Europe.’

The Ukrainian president was honored by world leaders during the international ceremony commemorating the D-Day landings.

Macron said: ‘We are all children of the landings.

“As we look at those who want to change borders by force to rewrite history, let us stand with dignity and look at those who ended up here. Let us have their courage.

“Here, President of Ukraine, your presence here today shows us this in a very powerful way.”