Putin “already lost the war” with Ukraine and will end up negotiating, says Biden

President Russian, Vladimir Putin“already lost the war” in Ukraine and kyiv’s current counteroffensive to reconquer the territories occupied in almost 17 months of war will force it to negotiate, the US president said Thursday, Joe Biden.

putincould end the war tomorrow, he would just have to say: ‘I stop’”, declared Biden during a visit to Finland to celebrate the recent accession to the NATO from the Nordic country, bordering Russia.

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“But there’s no chance that [Putin] win the war on Ukraine (…). she already lost it”, due to the lack of military resources of Russia and his financial difficulties, he continued.

Despite the slow progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east and south, the US president said he was convinced that Moscow he will end up requesting negotiations and that the war will not drag on for years.

“My hope and expectation is that Ukraine will make significant progress in its offensive and that this will lead to a negotiated solution at some point.“, he claimed.

Biden reiterated a pledge that Ukraine would eventually join NATO, despite the former Soviet republic’s frustration at failing to get a membership timetable during this week’s Transatlantic Defense Alliance summit in Lithuania.

“It’s not about knowing if [los ucranianos] will join NATO, but to know when they will be able to join. and they will adherehe declared.

Putin warned shortly after that the eventual entry of Ukraine into NATO “it will not improve the security of Ukraine and in a general way will make the world more vulnerable and cause additional tensions on the international scene”.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022 alleging, among other reasons, the need to prevent the former Soviet republic from one day joining the transatlantic defense alliance led by USA.

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Ukraine obtained at the NATO summit promises of greater military support from Western powers.

A support that Putin minimized.

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western missilesthey deal damage, but nothing critical is happening in the combat zones where they have been used. The same goes for foreign-made tanks”, he stated in an interview broadcast on Russian state television.

A Ukrainian general announced that the armed forces have already received cluster bombsa highly controversial class of weapons promised by the United States.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskovwarned that the use of such weapons, which scatter submunitions over vast terrain, would force Russia to “take certain countermeasures”, which will be decided by their armed forces.

After the end of the NATO summit, Russia launched a series of airstrikes against Ukraine, which claimed to have destroyed 20 explosive drones and two Russian cruise missiles.

Nighttime shelling left at least four injured in kyivaccording to the authorities.

nuclear threat

The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrovindicated that the delivery of Western F-16 fighter jets, needed according to kyiv to strike behind the Russian front line, would be considered a threat “nuclear”, since these devices are capable of transporting atomic weapons.

However, according to Biden, there is no “a real prospect (…) of Putin using nuclear weapons“, well “not only the West, but also China and the rest of the world have said: ‘Don’t go on that ground‘”.

Biden arrived in Finland on Wednesday to close the European tour that began on Sunday in London.

Finland left behind decades of neutrality and in April became NATO’s 31st member.

The country’s entry, which means Russia now has another 1,300 km of NATO border, is a strategic setback for Moscow. Sweden should enter in turn shortly after the approval of Türkiye.

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The US president also spoke of the aborted revolt in June Russian Wagner paramilitary group and joked that their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhinshould have “be careful what you eat”.

The visit to Finland symbolizes the great turn in relations between Washington and Moscow in recent years.

Five years ago, in the same room helsinkithe then president donald trump held a joint press conference with Putin.

Source: Elcomercio

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