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Biden, Zelenskyy sign security pact as G7 backs using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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President Biden signed a defense pact with Ukraine on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Italy. The major industrialized powers also agreed on a plan to take Russian assets held in Europe and use that money to aid Ukraine in its fight. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Adam Smith, a former senior adviser in the Treasury Department during the Obama Administration. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

President Biden signed a defense pack today with Ukraine on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Italy.

0:07.0

The group of seven major industrialized powers also agreed on a plan to take Russian assets held in Europe and use that money to aid Ukraine

0:16.0

in its fight against Russia's invasion.

0:18.6

Here's Nick Schifering.

0:21.6

Another day, another direct Russian hit on a Ukrainian apartment in Harkiv.

0:26.0

But this day proved different.

0:30.0

A man buried alive was saved.

0:32.0

Providing hope to a country struggling to hold the line.

0:37.0

An historic new bilateral security agreement.

0:41.0

And so it was 2,000 miles away. A security agreement gave Ukraine's

0:44.9

leader hope US support would hold. Our goal is the strength of Ukraine's

0:50.1

credible defense and deterrence capabilities for the long term.

0:54.0

It is a truly historic day and we have signed the strongest agreement within Ukraine and the US since our independence.

1:07.0

Today's US-Ukraine bilateral security agreement commits the US for 10 years to quote support Ukraine's efforts to win today's war and

1:14.8

deter future Russian military aggression with weapons, intelligence sharing and

1:19.4

long-term training as well as joint weapons production.

1:24.0

Nowhere has the risk to Ukraine and the importance of Western support

1:27.3

been more pronounced than in Harquive.

1:31.8

Just a few weeks ago, the center of Vove Chance along the Harkiv Russia border had been

1:36.1

gutted at risk of occupation. Now US and Ukrainian officials say newly arrived Western ammunition and permissions to fire U.S.

1:45.4

weapons into Russia allowed Ukraine to hold the line.

1:49.1

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at NATO today.

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