Biden: U.S. 'will never recognize' Crimea annexation:
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told lawmakers in Ukraine’s parliament that "Russia is occupying sovereign Ukrainian territory" in Crimea and has violated international law by illegally annexing the Ukrainian peninsula.
In a much anticipated speech on December 8, Biden said "the world is watching" them and their "fight against the unrelenting aggression of the Kremlin."
He said "the United States will never recognize" Russia's annexation of Crimea, and will continue to support Ukraine against Russian aggression.
Biden told Ukrainian lawmakers that they have “an obligation to their homeland to answer the call of history" and build a united democratic nation that "stands through time."
He said teach lawmaker will be judged upon by future generations upon whether they put the greater good of all Ukrainian people over local interests that have divided the country.
Biden’s visit is his fourth to Kyiv since Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March 2014 and gave its backing to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.