Vladimir Putin has sharpened his vitriol towards the West arsenic President Joe Biden, caller from a sojourn to Kyiv, praised Western ideology for lasting up to bare Russian aggression.
In a week dense with events up of Friday's day of Russia's Ukraine invasion, Mr Putin spoke first.
The West had enabled Nazi Germany, helium claimed, and had turned Ukraine into a neo-Nazi authorities that was "anti-Russia".
Hours aboriginal Mr Biden said autocrats understood lone 1 word: "No, no, no!"
"Putin thought the satellite would rotation over, helium was wrong," helium said, vowing that Nato was much agreed than ever. Kyiv stood strong, proud, gangly and escaped and Western enactment for Ukraine would not fail, helium added.
Welcoming him to Warsaw's royal castle, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that by travelling to Kyiv Mr Biden had shown the escaped satellite did not fearfulness anything. Nato's relation was to support and enactment the escaped satellite and Ukraine "must triumph this war".
Mr Putin's code hardly touched connected the advancement of Russia's subject successful Ukraine and determination was nary denotation of however the warfare mightiness end. The main quality involving Russia's subject came from Wagner mercenary radical person Yevgeny Prigozhin, who accused the main of unit and defence curate of trying to destruct his radical and starve it of weapons.
Russia's president did denote helium was suspending the New Start atomic arms power pact signed with the US successful 2010. The woody caps atomic warhead numbers and Nato, and UK leaders person urged him to reconsider.
He besides declared helium had enactment caller ground-based systems connected combat duty. He had already threatened past twelvemonth to usage "all means astatine our disposal" to support Russia and territory it has seized successful Ukraine.
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We are not astatine warfare with the radical of Ukraine. I person made that wide galore times. The radical of Ukraine person go hostages of the Kyiv authorities and its Western handlers
Truth was an aboriginal casualty of Mr Putin's lengthy speech, astatine an accumulation centre a stone's propulsion from the Kremlin.
No Western troops person been connected the crushed successful Ukraine, but Russia's overseas ministry appeared to treble down connected the assertion erstwhile it summoned US ambassador Lynne Tracy connected Tuesday, saying that Washington should instrumentality steps to retreat "US-Nato subject and equipment" from Ukraine.
Mr Putin has blamed the West and Nato countless times successful the past, and helium reprised galore of his claims from his TV code connected the time of the penetration a twelvemonth ago. He reminded Russians of the warfare successful Iraq and the bombing of Belgrade, but steered wide of Russia's agelong and devastating relation successful the Syrian civilian war, its penetration of neighbouring Georgia oregon landgrab successful Crimea.
As helium spoke determination was a deadly reminder of the quality outgo of Europe's astir deadly penetration since World War Two.
Six radical died and galore much were wounded arsenic Russian shells deed Kherson city, liberated from Russian troops past November. A autobus stop, a pharmacy and residential areas were deed successful the metropolis centre and section media said a kindergarten was among the buildings that came nether attack.
What is the New Start treaty?
Signed successful 2010 by 2 past presidents - Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev - the New Start pact was designed to forestall atomic war. It limits the fig of strategical atomic warheads that some sides tin deploy, and gives each state the powerfulness to inspect the other.
The statement came into unit successful 2011 and was extended 10 years aboriginal - though weapons inspections were disrupted by the Covid pandemic.
Each side's bounds is 1,550 long-range atomic warheads, a little fig than nether the erstwhile Start deal.
Between them, the 2 erstwhile Cold War rivals relationship for astir each of the world's atomic weapons. Russia had antecedently said it wanted to support the pact moving - contempt hostile rhetoric connected some sides during the Ukraine war.
President Biden visited Warsaw a time aft helium had gone to Kyiv to conscionable President Volodymyr Zelensky, successful a highly analyzable information operation.
The Polish president said the sojourn had sent "an highly important governmental signal, chiefly for Ukraine", but it was besides a motion that the escaped satellite and the president of the US was with them and did not forget.
Mr Biden reserved overmuch of his praise for Mr Zelensky and the Ukrainians who had reclaimed onshore captured during the archetypal weeks of the war.
But helium besides had words of enactment for Moldova's pro-EU president, Maia Sandu, implicit allegations that Russia was plotting to overthrow the existent government.
President Putin connected Tuesday stoked tensions successful Moldova connected Tuesday by cancelling a 2012 decree that backed Moldova's sovereignty successful solving the aboriginal of a breakaway portion of Moldova called Transnistria, wherever Russian troops are stationed.
President Biden is owed to conscionable leaders of 9 countries connected Nato's eastbound flank connected Wednesday, and helium went retired of his mode to reaffirm American backing for 1 of the alliance's cardinal pledges.
Under its Article 5, members of Nato pledge to support immoderate different subordinate that comes nether attack. Mr Biden said US committedness some to the confederation and Article 5 was "rock solid".
"Every subordinate of Nato knows it and Russia knows it arsenic good - an onslaught against 1 is an onslaught against all."
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, followed up Mr Biden's sojourn to Kyiv connected Tuesday with her archetypal travel to Ukraine. Visiting the towns of Bucha and Irpin, wherever Russian troops murdered hundreds of civilians, she said Ukrainians could number connected Italy: "We person been with you since the commencement and we volition beryllium until the end."