Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, arrives to address members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
The late Alexei Navalny is not popular among the citizens of Ukraine due to past statements supporting Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
"The fact that Team Biden wanted to host Yuliya Navalnaya and Alyona Zelenskaya in the same room is screaming evidence that they have no clue about the cultural, ethnic, and political dynamics between the Russians and Ukrainians, Moscow and Kiev, etc," Russian-born U.S. military intelligence analyst Rebekah Koffler told Fox News Digital.
President Biden delivers his 2023 State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
"You have to be a thinking person, intellectually curious, and competent, to dig into all of these details," Koffler told Fox News Digital. "And Biden as well as people surrounding him are simply looking at what’s on the surface. They have no in-depth understanding of the regional dynamics in Eurasia and how the world works."
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington for comment.
Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
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