艾森豪威尔行政楼南礼堂
美国东部时间下午 1点零1分
 
总统：各位下午好。首先，我要感谢泽连斯基总统今天早上发表的充满热忱的讲话。我是在私人住宅倾听他的演说，非常具有说服力——也非常重要。
通过他的演说，我们看到一个在残酷的侵略战争面前表现出非凡勇气和力量的民族——这种勇气和力量不仅鼓舞了乌克兰人民，也鼓舞了全世界。
普京正在对乌克兰进行骇人听闻的破坏和恐怖袭击——对公寓楼、产房和医院进行狂轰滥炸。
我认为，这种行为令人发指。我刚才正和我们的军事首领——站在我身后的米利将军 (General Milley) ——谈到这件事情。我认为，这种事情简直令人难以置信。
昨天我们看到有报道称，俄罗斯军队在马里乌波尔 (Mariupol) 一家最大的医院劫持了数百名医生和病人作为人质。这些都是暴行，是对全世界犯下的暴行。全世界和我们团结一致支持乌克兰，决心让普京付出沉重代价。
美国与盟国及合作伙伴一起领导这项努力，提供巨大的安全和人道主义援助，包括今天增加的部分，我们将在未来几天和几周内继续提供更多援助。
我们正在通过惩罚性的制裁从经济上削弱普京。随着时间的推移，在整个北约和欧盟以及许多其它国家的支持下，这种制裁将使普京的处境每况愈下。
这场战争的结局关系到美国和世界各国所秉持的原则，关系到自由，关系到人们决定自己未来的权利。关系到确保乌克兰永远——无论普京在战场上取得怎样的进展，他永远也无法在乌克兰取胜。
美国人民响应泽连斯基总统提供更多援助的呼吁，为乌克兰提供更多自卫武器，提供更多抗击俄罗斯侵略的工具。我们正在这样做。
事实上，我们在这场战争开始之前就已经开始向乌克兰提供援助，当他们开始在乌克兰边境举行军事演习时——我是说俄罗斯人——从去年三月份开始。
我们对普京的侵略威胁采取了十分严肃的态度，并对其采取了行动。去年，我们向乌克兰提供了更多安全援助——6.5 亿美元的武器，包括入侵前提供的防空和反装甲设备——比我们以往任何时候提供的都要多。因此，当入侵开始时，他们已经获得了对抗俄罗斯进攻所需的各种武器。
在战争一开始，我们立即追加了 3.5 亿美元的援助，以进一步满足他们的需求：数百个防空系统、数千件反坦克武器、运输直升机、武装巡逻艇和其它高机动性车辆、能够跟踪火炮和无人驾驶飞机的雷达系统、安全的通信设备和战术装备、卫星图像以及——分析能力。无疑，这些武器装备对乌克兰重创俄罗斯军队发挥了重要作用。
周六，本届政府又授权 2 亿美元，以保证武器和弹药源源不断地运往乌克兰。现在，我再次行使总统权力启动额外的安全援助，以继续帮助乌克兰抵御俄罗斯的攻击——这次追加的援助达 8 亿美元。这使得美国对乌克兰的最新安全援助总额仅在本周就达到了 10 亿美元。这些是最大——这些是从我们的国防部直接转运给乌克兰军队的装备，以帮助他们对抗这场入侵。  
另外，我要感谢国会为这些资金提供拨款。
仅仅这一批新装备就为乌克兰提供了前所未有的援助。它包括 800 个防空系统，确保乌克兰军队能够继续阻击那些一直对平民发动攻击的飞机和直升机，保卫乌克兰领空。
应泽连斯基总统的要求，我们已经确定并正在帮助乌克兰获得更多的远程防空系统以及用于这些系统的弹药。
我们新的援助计划还包括 9000 个反装甲系统。这些是便携式、高精度的肩式导弹，乌克兰军队一直在使用这些武器摧毁入侵的坦克和装甲车，效果非常好。
这一计划还包括 7000 款小型武器——机枪、霰弹枪、榴弹发射器——为乌克兰人民提供装备，包括那些为保卫城市而奋勇作战的男女平民，他们也在乡村作战。并且，我们还提供弹药、火炮和迫击炮弹，与这些轻武器一起使用——总共有两千万发。两千万发弹药。这一计划还包括无人机，这这表明，我们致力于将我们最先进的武器系统送到乌克兰用于防御。
而且，并非只是我们一个国家在这样做。我们的盟友和合作伙伴已加紧提供大量安全援助，并将继续为促进这些武器的交付提供帮助。
美国与其盟国以及合作伙伴坚定不移地向乌克兰人民提供大量的武器援助。一旦获得可以运送的额外订货，我们将会提供更多援助。
但是——但是，我要对大家开诚布公地说：这很可能是一场漫长而艰苦的战斗。但是，面对普京对平民发动的丧尽天良、违背道德原则的攻击，美国人民将坚定不移地支持乌克兰人民。我们全国人民都对普京发动的野蛮攻击深恶痛绝，我们将继续支持他们为自由、民主和生存而战。我们将为乌克兰提供武器，让他们在未来艰难的岁月里能够自始至终地战斗和保卫自己。
我们将继续组织人道主义救济，为乌克兰境内的人们和那些被迫逃离乌克兰的人们提供支持。
仅在过去几周内，我们就已经向乌克兰及其邻国人民提供了 3 亿美元的人道主义援助，包括数万吨食品、饮水、药品和人们急需的其它基本物资。
我们在波兰、摩尔多瓦以及其它邻国境内的专家，对当地迅速演变的危机进行实时评估，并在需要的情况下为有需要的人们提供人道主义物资，以解燃眉之急。
我们还将通过提供直接财政援助支持乌克兰的经济发展。
我们将与盟友以及合作伙伴一道，继续对普京摇摇欲坠的经济施加压力，让他在全球舞台上陷于孤立。我们的目标是：让普京付出代价，削弱他的地位，同时加强乌克兰人民在战场和谈判桌上的力量。
我们将与盟友和合作伙伴一道，坚持到底。我们将尽一切努力推动结束这场悲剧性和毫无必要的战争。这是一场独裁者的贪欲与人类对自由的渴望之间的对决。
无可怀疑、毋庸置疑和完全可以肯定的是：美国与自由的力量站在一起。我们一直是并将永远是与自由的力量站在一起。
我要感谢大家。上帝保佑你们。我现在要走过去签署这项立法——签署这项法案，授权提供这些物资。
愿上帝护佑那些在战场上保卫国家的年轻乌克兰人。
我在这里签署的是基于 1961 年《对外援助法》第 506(a)(1) 条授权的议案，也就是总计 8 亿美元的国防物资。
（签署授权议案）
问：总统先生，在什么条件下您才会提供泽连斯基总统所要求的波兰米格战机？
总统：我现在不打算对此发表评论。除了我所谈到（听不清）的内容之外，我不会对任何事情作出评论。
谢谢各位。
美国东部时间下午 1 点 10 分
 
欲查看原稿内容: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/16/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-assistance-the-united-states-is-providing-to-ukraine/
本译文仅供参考，只有英文原稿才可以被视为权威资料来源。

Remarks by President Biden on the Assistance the United States is Providing to Ukraine
MARCH 16, 2022•SPEECHES AND REMARKS
South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building

1:01 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.  I want to begin by thanking President Zelenskyy for his passionate message this morning.  I listened to it in the private residence, and he was convincing.  And — significant speech.
He speaks for a people who have shown remarkable courage and strength in the face of brutal aggression — courage and strength that has inspired not only Ukrainians but the entire world.
Putin is inflicting appalling — appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine — bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals.
I mean, it’s — it’s God awful.  I was speaking about this with the — our — our Commander, behind me here — General Milley.  I mean, it just is amazing.
Yesterday, we saw reports that Russian forces were holding hundreds of doctors and patients hostage in the largest hospital in Mariupol.  These are atrocities.  They’re an outrage to the world.  And the world is united in our support for Ukraine and our determination to make Putin pay a very heavy price.
America is leading this effort, together with our Allies and partners, providing enormous levels of security and humanitarian assistance that we’re adding to today and we’re going to continue to do more in the days and weeks ahead.
We are crippling Putin’s economy with punishing sanctions that’s going to only grow more painful over time with the entire NATO and EU behind us, and many other countries.
What’s at stake here are the principles that the United States and the united nations across the world stand for.  It’s about freedom.  It’s about the right of people to determine their own future.  It’s about making sure Ukraine never — will never be a victory for Putin, no matter what advances he makes on the battlefield.
The American people are answering President Zelenskyy’s call for more help, more weapons for Ukraine to defend itself, more tools to fight Russian aggression.  And that’s what we’re doing.
In fact, we started our assistance to Ukraine before this war began, as they started to do exercises along the Ukrainian border — the Russians — starting in March of last year.
We took the threat of Putin invading very seriously, and we acted on it.  We sent Ukraine more security assistance last year — $650 million in weapons, including anti-air and anti-armor equipment before the invasion — more than we had ever provided before.  So when the invasion began, they already had in their hands the kinds of weapons they needed to counter Russian advances.
And once the war started, we immediately rushed $350 million in additional aid to further address their needs: hundreds of anti-air systems, thousands of anti-tank weapons, transport helicopters, armed patrol boats, and other high-mobility vehicles, radar systems that help track incoming artillery and unmanned drones, secure communications equipment and tactical gear, satellite imagery and — and analysis capacity.  And it’s clearly helped Ukraine inflict dramatic losses on Russian forces.
On Saturday, my administration authorized another $200 million to keep a steady flow of weapons and ammunition moving to Ukraine.  Now I’m once again using my presidential authority to activate — to activate additional security assistance to continue to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s assault — an additional $800 million in assistance.  That brings the total of new U.S. security assistance to Ukraine to $1 billion just this week.  These are the lar- — these are direct transfers of equipment from our Department of Defense to the Ukrainian military to help them as they fight against this invasion.
And I thank the Congress for appropriating these funds.
This new package on its own is going to provide unprecedented assistance to Ukraine.  It includes 800 anti-aircraft systems to make sure the Ukrainian military can continue to — can continue to stop the planes and helicopters that have been attacking their people and to defend their Ukrainian airspace.
And at the request of President Zelenskyy, we have identified and are helping Ukraine acquire additional longer-range anti-aircraft systems and the munitions for those systems.
Our new assistance package also includes 9,000 anti-armor systems.  These are portable, high — high-accurate — high accurately — high-accuracy shoulder-mounted missiles that the Ukrainian forces have been using with great effect to destroy invading tanks and armored vehicles.
It’ll include 7,000 small arms — machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers — to equip the Ukrainians, including the brave women and men who are defending their cities as civilians, and they’re on the countryside as well.  And we’re — and we — and as well as the ammunition, artillery, and mortar rounds to go with small arms — 20 million rounds in total.  Twenty million rounds.  And this will include drones, which — which demonstrates our commitment to sending our most cutting-edge systems to Ukraine for its defense.
And we’re not doing this alone.  Our Allies and partners have stepped up to provide significant shipments of security assistance and will continue to help facilitate these deliveries as well.
The United States and our Allies and partners are fully committed to surging weapons of assistance to the Ukrainians.  And more will be coming as we source additional stocks of equipment that are — that we’re ready to transfer.
Now — now, I want to be honest with you: This could be a long and difficult battle.  But the American people will be steadfast in our support of the people of Ukraine in the face of Putin’s immoral, unethical attacks on civilian populations.  We are united in our abhorrence of Putin’s depraved onslaught, and we’re going to continue to have their back as they fight for their freedom, their democracy, their very survival.  And we’re going to give Ukraine the arms to fight and defend themselves through all the difficult days ahead.
We’re going to continue to mobilize humanitarian relief to support people within Ukraine and those who have been forced to flee Ukraine.
In just the past few weeks, we’ve provided $300 million in humanitarian assistance to the people in Ukraine and in neighboring countries.  Tens of thousands of tons of food, water, medicine, and other basic supplies to support the people in need.
Our experts on the ground in Poland and Moldova and other neighboring countries are there to make real-time assessments of the rapidly evolving crisis and get urgently needed humanitarian supplies to the people in need when they need it.
And we will support Ukraine’s economy with direct financial assistance as well.
And together with our Allies and partners, we will keep up the pressure on Putin’s crumbling economy, isolating him on the global stage.  That’s our goal: make Putin pay the price, weaken his position while strengthening the hand of the Ukrainians on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.
Together with our Allies and partners, we’re going to stay the course.  And we’ll do everything we can to push for and end this tragic, unnecessary war.  This is a struggle that pits the appetites of an autocrat against humankind’s desire to be free.
And let there be no doubt, no uncertainty, no question: America stands with the forces of freedom.  We always have and we always will.
I want to thank you all.  And God bless you.  And now I’m going to walk over and sign this legisla- — sign this bill to allow the drawdown of those materials.
And may God protect the young Ukrainians who are out there defending their country.
What I’m signing here is the Delegation of Authority Under Section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.  Translated into plain English: a total of $800 million in defense articles.
(The Delegation of Authority is signed.)
Q    Mr. President, what will it take for you to send the Polish MiGs that President Zelenskyy is asking for?
THE PRESIDENT:  I’m not going to comment on that right now.  I’m not going to comment on anything other than what I told you (inaudible).
Thank you.
1:10 P.M. EDT