The following statement was released by the Ukrainian World Congress on April 28.
The Ukrainian World Congress is deeply dismayed with the April 25 joint statement by President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin commemorating the 75th anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe between U.S. and Soviet troops at the end of World War II.
“There can be no ‘putting aside differences, building trust or cooperation in pursuit of a greater cause’ until Russia ends it ongoing war against Ukraine and de-occupies Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula,” stated UWC President Paul Grod. “Thousands of innocent Ukrainian men and women have died and tens of thousands wounded as a result of Russia’s ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. Russia continues to camouflage its current imperial ambitions and whitewash the millions of victims of the Soviet legacy.”