🔴 US President Joe Biden holds a speech in Poland on the same day the Russian President held an anti-West speech, blaming the US for escalating the #warinUkraine.
Biden speaks alongside the Polish President Andrzej Duda.
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🔴 "#Russia thought #Ukraine would fall in 72 hours but thanks to the heroic behaviour of the Ukrainian people and the support of the free world, the imperialistic ambitions of Russia were not fulfilled,' says Polish President Andrzej Duda.
"Ukraine must win this war" ⤵️
🔴 President Andrzej Duda thanks all the Polish people that have taken in Ukrainian refugees since the war.
Duda says it is a "proof of solidarity' for the Ukrainian people ⤵️
🔴 Polish President Andrzej Duda has finished his speech, and we're now waiting for Joe Biden to take the stage.
Our International Affairs Editor breaks down the key takeaways from Duda's speech and puts it in some historical context ⤵️
🔴 "We stand up for sovereignty and for people to live free from aggression," says Joe Biden as he starts his speech in Poland.
"Putin thought NATO would fracture, but NATO is more united than ever before" ⤵️
#LIVE 🔴 "We will keep standing up for the same things no matter what."
"Democracy was too strong" for Putin's offensive, says Biden ⤵️
🔴 "Our support for #Ukraine will not waver".
"Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. Never"
"Freedom is at stake," says #JoeBiden ⤵️
#LIVE 🔴 "The West is not plotting to attack #Russia," says #JoeBiden in response to Putin's speech earlier in the day.
"#Ukraine is still independent and free" he says ⤵️
#LIVE 🔴 #JoeBiden says that every day the #warinUkraine continues is Putin's "choice".
"If Russia stopped invading Ukraine, it would end the war. If Ukraine stopped defending itself from Russia, it would end Ukraine" ⤵️
#LIVE 🔴 #JoeBiden says that the "appetites of the autocrats cannot be appeased, they must be opposed".
"Putin thought he'd get the Finlandisation of NATO, instead he got the NATOisation of Finland and Sweden" ⤵️
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