'Significant rebuttal': Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky responds to Biden's 'minor incursion' gaffe, and not in a good way

Greg P. | 11:35 AM on January 20, 2022

Welp.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is NOT HAPPY with President Joe Biden’s apparent authorization of a Russian invasion of his country as long as it’s a “minor incursion”:

We want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations. Just as there are no minor casualties and little grief from the loss of loved ones. I say this as the President of a great power 🇺🇦

— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 20, 2022

Yeah, he’s pissed:

Damn they are pissed https://t.co/t7HT8hDSC3

— Simon Shuster (@shustry) January 20, 2022

And it’s a “big bungle”:

The "minor incursion" line from Biden was a big bungle https://t.co/h75OYYkM1t

— Will Ricciardella (@WillRicci) January 20, 2022

The WaPo’s Aaron Blake called it a “significant rebuttal”:

Significant rebuttal from Ukraine President Zelensky on Biden's comment yesterday –> https://t.co/hWjXzCx1k1

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 20, 2022

It doesn’t seem like Biden’s great reset is going too well:

Despite the valiant efforts of aspiring Twitter flacks, no practitioner of statecraft could fail to recognize that Joe Biden exposed in no uncertain terms a lack of will within the Atlantic Alliance to prevent Putin from doing something a little less than his absolute worst. https://t.co/XhOjfzKqlF

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) January 20, 2022

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