US President Joe Biden refers to Zelensky as 'Vladimir' during NATO meet | Watch
New York Post, this gaffe occurred just a day after Zelensky expressed frustration at Ukraine not receiving an invitation to join the North Atlantic alliance, only to retract his statement shortly afterwards. “Vladimir and I … I shouldn’t be so familiar," Biden said during a press conference in the Lithuanian capital.
“Mr. Zelensky and I talked about the kind of guarantees we could make in the meantime when I was in Ukraine and when we met in other places," he corrected himself as he stood feet from the Ukrainian leader.
The official White House transcript, which typically highlights President Biden's misstatements, did not acknowledge this particular error and incorrectly states that the president said, "Volodymyr." New York Post further noted that "Volodymyr" and "Vladimir" are different variations of the same name, both meaning "ruler of the world" or "ruler of peace." However, "Volodymyr" is the more commonly used version of the name in Ukraine. President Biden has previously made several misstatements regarding the war-torn former Soviet state.
In his 2022 State of the Union address, President Biden made a misstatement, referring to "Ukrainians" as "Iranians" when discussing President Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February of that year. Biden mistakenly stated, “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people." Additionally, in the same year, he inadvertently mentioned that Russian troops were withdrawing from "Fallujah," a city associated with the Iraq war, when he actually intended to refer to the city of Kherson in southeastern Ukraine.
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