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Transcript/ScriptUS-NATO-UKRAINE (TV)
HEADLINE: Biden Heads to Europe to Coordinate Next Steps for Ukraine
TEASER: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion approaches the one-month mark
PUBLISHED AT: 3/22/2022; 9:04p
BYLINE: Patsy Widakuswara, Anita Powell
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Brussels/ White House
VIDEOGRAPHER:
PRODUCER:
SCRIPT EDITORS: Holly Franko, Reifenrath, DJ OK
VIDEO SOURCE (S): AP, AFP, Skype
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO __
TRT: 2:49
VID APPROVED BY: Reifenrath
TYPE: TV
EDITOR NOTES: Video cues to come, want to push this now so Anita in Brussels can voice and sleep. Radio track included.))
((INTRO))
[[On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden heads to Brussels and Warsaw to coordinate with Western allies on the next phase of military, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. White House Bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report, narrated by correspondent Anita Powell from Brussels.]]
((NARRATOR))
Russian shelling destroyed civilian buildings, including a shopping mall in Kyiv, as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine approaches the one-month mark.
This week Western allies will coordinate the next phase of assistance to the country, with ...
((NARRATOR))
… U.S. President Joe Biden heading to Europe to attend an emergency NATO summit and to meet with leaders of the G-7 and the European Union,
((NARRATOR))
… said national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
((Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser))
“He will join our partners in imposing further sanctions on Russia and tightening the existing sanctions to crack down on evasion and to ensure robust enforcement. He will
work with allies on longer-term adjustments to NATO force posture on the eastern flank. He will announce joint action on enhancing European energy security and reducing Europe's dependence on Russian gas at long last.”
((Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President (in Ukrainian)))
“You will hear the sound with which we are living already for 25 days.”
((Natsound siren))
((NARRATOR))
The goal is to strengthen Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hand as he negotiates with Moscow. The Ukrainian president has signaled that after a cease-fire agreement is achieved, he is open to discussing the status of the eastern Donbas region — held by Russian-backed separatists — and Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Kyiv is also willing to consider dropping demands for full NATO membership in exchange for security guarantees.
[[Radio track: Jonathan Katz, senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund, via Skype]]
((Jonathan Katz, German Marshall Fund)) ((Skype courtesy))
“What that looks like, what allies and partners are looking at, what they're willing to do, is going to be incredibly important. It's not going to be just enough for Russia to remove its troops. Russia will also have to pay for the rebuilding of what took place in Ukraine.”
((NARRATOR))
Biden will need to navigate divisions between NATO allies who want to supply offensive weapons such as fighter jets and others who want to avoid escalation with Moscow
((Radio track: Sean Monaghan, visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, via Skype))
((Sean Monaghan, Center for Strategic and International Studies)) ((Skype courtesy))
“While a war in Ukraine is clearly awful, a wider war in Europe would be fundamentally catastrophic. And NATO's core role here is essentially to prevent World War III. So NATO has a real job to do to deter, to reinforce, and go back to basics to deter Russia from any wider aggression against European nations.”
((NARRATOR))
Biden will also announce additional aid to respond to the growing flow of refugees, including the millions pouring into neighboring Poland, where he will meet with President Andrzej Duda.
((Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser))
“Poland is where the United States has surged a significant number of forces to be able to help defend and shore up the eastern flank. Poland has to contend not just with the
war in Ukraine but with Russia's military deployments to Belarus, which have fundamentally changed the security equation there.”
((NARRATOR))
The White House has not confirmed speculation that Biden will visit refugees while he is in Poland. It said he will not visit Ukraine, given the dangers of a president entering a war zone.
With Patsy Widakuswara, Anita Powell,
VOA News, Brussels.
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