Ahead of his meeting with President Biden, President Zelenskiy took issue with Biden’s comment that the country still has “to clean up corruption”

before it can join NATO. “It’s very popular to accuse Ukraine of corruption — and it’s not that I hold these views only since I became president, but I’ve always felt offended by this,” Zelensky said in an interview with The Washington Post and three other US media outlets. “Because you know what? No country is free of corruption.” Asked about the US-Germany agreement on the Nord Stream 2 Russia-Germany gas line, he said: “Certainly, I’m not happy about this arrangement, if I can call it that, and the format in which it was achieved.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Kyiv on Sunday.