US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 2 US President Joe Biden believes that Russia has rejected diplomatic efforts to resolve the situation around Ukraine.
"Putin's war was deliberate and unprovoked, he rejected diplomatic efforts. He thought the West and NATO would not answer, he thought he could divide us. Putin was wrong. We were ready", Biden said in his address to Congress.
Excerpts from the speech of the President of the United States were distributed by the press service of the White House. The speech is scheduled for 05.00 Moscow time. Biden intends to declare that if the current aggression is not stopped, chaos will begin. «The cost and threats to America and the world will rise,» the speech read. the NATO alliance was created to protect peace and stability in Europe after the Second World War,» the text says. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian president stressed.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
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