US president casts Ukraine war as continuation of long struggle for democracy against Russian brute force
Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power”, US presidentHowever, a White House official said soon after the speech that Biden was not calling for regime change in Russia.
“The battle between democracy and autocracy. Between liberty and repression. Between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.Just before Biden started his speech, Russian cruise missiles hit targets in the city of Lviv near Ukraine’s western border, about 400km from where the US president was speaking.
Earlier in the day, Biden had emphasised the “sacred” tie of the Nato military alliance that binds several nations neighbouring Ukraine to the US. About an hour earlier Biden, his foreign secretary, Antony Blinken, and defence secretary Lloyd Austin had held a brief meeting with Ukrainian counterparts including foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba and defence chief Oleksii Reznikov at the Marriott hotel in central Warsaw.
3.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the war, of which an estimated 2.2 million have found shelter in Poland, whose conservative government’s welcoming stance has contrasted starkly to its reluctance to take in those fleeing the war in Syria six years ago.
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