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Biden Says Zelenskiy Brushed Off Warnings of Russia’s Invasion

US President Joe Biden at the Port of Los Angeles on June 10.
US President Joe Biden at the Port of Los Angeles on June 10.Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg

President Joe Biden said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tuned out warnings that Russia would invade his country in the lead-up to the Feb. 24 attack. 

“I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating, but I knew, and we had data to sustain, he was going in off the border. There was no doubt. And Zelenskiy didn’t want to hear it, nor did a lot of people,” Biden said Friday during a political fundraiser in Los Angeles.