Sat 26 March 2022:
US President Joe Biden on Saturday portrayed Ukraine’s resistance against Russian forces as part of a “great battle for freedom” and said the world should prepare for a “long fight ahead”.
Speaking at Warsaw’s Royal Castle in Warsaw, Biden said Russia “has strangled democracy and sought to do so elsewhere” and told Ukraine: “We stand with you. Period.”
JUST IN: Pres. Biden closes his speech in Warsaw, Poland, with remarks aimed at Russian Pres. Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
“Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia.” https://t.co/NDK87OwSXa pic.twitter.com/pE7vaokp7G
— ABC News (@ABC) March 26, 2022
The president also said that “swift and punishing costs is the only thing that will get Russia to change course”.
Biden added that US forces are in Europe to defend NATO allies, not to engage with Russian forces. He said, however, addressing Putin: “Don’t even think about moving onto one single inch of NATO territory”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin could not remain in power, and his war against Ukraine has been a strategic failure for Moscow, Biden said on Saturday.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden told a crowd in Warsaw. Biden also said the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its second month, had united the West, adding that NATO was a defensive alliance which never sought Russia’s demise.
Biden called the conflict in Ukraine a “strategic failure” for Russia but said ordinary Russians were “not our enemy”.
“Let there be no doubt that this war has already been a strategic failure for Russia,” Biden said in a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
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