WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said Monday he was concerned that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot find a way out” from the failed occupation of the country after the war in Ukraine ended.
At a charity event in Washington DC, Biden said Putin “believed he could break up NATO and the EU” when he ordered an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, but the US president said he had failed.
Biden, who described Putin as “very calculating” and said he “couldn’t find a way out” of the invasion, so the White House is “learning” what to do about it.
Initially, Russian forces tried to take the Ukrainian capital Kiev, but in April they left the area and targeted the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
For his part, Putin defended on Monday that his military campaign is aimed at defeating “Nazism” in Ukraine and guaranteeing Russia’s security in the face of NATO’s “threat” on the day of victory over Nazi Germany.
“Defending the homeland has always been sacred. “Today you are fighting for our people in Donbas, for the security of our motherland, for Russia,” the Russian president said at a traditional military parade in Red Square.
Ukrainian officials say more than 60 people died on Sunday after a Russian bomb destroyed a school used as a shelter.
The Pentagon later responded to the Russian president, saying that “only Ukrainians are in Ukraine, no Nazis”.
“We heard the same nonsense, the same lie, the same lie in terms of rhetoric that we heard from the beginning,” Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said at a news conference.
Source: La Neta Neta
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