How does Joe Biden react to Vladimir Putin’s attacks? The US President’s speech is eagerly awaited. Follow his statement tonight from 8 p.m. here in the live ticker.
- Ukraine conflict: Russia’s Vladimir Putin harshly attacks the USA.
- US President Joe Biden will comment on sanctions on Tuesday evening (from 20 CET).
- Follow the speech here in the live ticker.
Update from February 22, 7:20 p.m.: With what sanctions is Joe Biden responding to Vladimir Putin’s verbal attacks and his ambitions in Donbass? The US President will speak from 8 p.m. (CET).
ZDF reports in the evening that he will act with “waves of sanctions”. It is expected that Biden will announce or at least threaten sanctions “directly against Russia, against the Russian President and his environment and against Russian banks”.
Ukraine conflict: Moscow agrees to military action – what is the USA doing?
Update from February 22, 7:10 p.m.: The upper house in Moscow has meanwhile approved a Russian military operation in Ukraine, in the so-called defense case. Since last night there have been pictures from Donetsk on the Donbass, which are said to show Russian troops invading.
In his earlier speech, President Vladimir Putin stripped Ukraine of its statehood and described the country of around 44 million people as an integral part of Russian history. The United States had welcomed Germany’s step in the Ukraine conflict to put the contract for the “Nord Stream 2” gas pipeline on hold. Washington put a lot of pressure on Berlin on this issue because it has great symbolic character.
Ukraine conflict: How does Joe Biden react to the attacks from Moscow?
First report from February 22nd: Munich/Washington – It was a bizarre TV speech by Vladimir Putin on February 21st. A monologue in which the Russian President continuously and unexpectedly sharply attacked the United States in the Ukraine conflict.
Ukraine is nothing more than a “US colony” and a “military base” for NATO, said the ruler from the Kremlin in Moscow. Among other things, the 69-year-old said: “Well, you don’t want us as friends. But why are you making enemies of us? They don’t need such a large independent country as Russia. That is the source of American policy towards Russia.” American policy in Ukraine is “like a knife on the neck,” he said, referring to Ukrainian military airfields on the Black Sea coast, including in the city of Odessa.
Ukraine conflict: US President Joe Biden comments on Ukraine and Vladimir Putin
Putin went on to say harshly: “We know the words and positions of the US. We know what such words are worth.” The US government now wants to announce new measures against Russia in the Ukraine conflict* this Tuesday evening (from 8 p.m.). US President Joe Biden has already signed an executive order with sanctions. These are intended, for example, to ban new investments, trade and financing by US persons in Donetsk and Luhansk. What other sanctions is the United States planning?
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