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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Pavel Polityuk

Ukraine sees no deviation from U.S. policy in Biden 'incursion' remark

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden is seen through a glass doorway as he speaks by phone with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

Ukraine sees no deviation from U.S. policy in a remark by President Joe Biden that Russia could bear a lower cost for an "incursion" rather than for an "invasion" of Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian adviser said on Thursday.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office, said Ukraine welcomed the fact that Biden had signalled that there would be a coordinated Western response in the event of Russia making a move on Ukraine.

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