US president Joe Biden on late Thursday (February 24) night delivered his first speech since Russia began a ”military operation'” in Ukraine earlier in the day.
Biden slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin; Biden said, “Putin is the aggressor, Putin chose war.”
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Biden added that the US would also impose further sanctions and export control on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
“US allies are blocking the assets of four major Russian banks, and are imposing sanctions on oligarchs’ exports, and sanctioning them,” Biden said.
“Export control will stop more than half of Russia’s high tech imports,” the US President further stated.
Biden confirmed that the US does not intend to send troops to Ukraine but would “protect every square inch of NATO territorial boundaries.”
“Our troops are not and will not be involved in a battle against Russia within Ukraine. Our forces will not be heading into Europe for fighting in Ukraine instead, but defending and assuring NATO our allies,” Biden said.
Refusing to discuss any possible talks with Putin, Biden said, “I don’t have plans to meet with Russian President Putin. Biden wants to restore an earlier Soviet Union; I think his goals are completely opposed to where the world is now.”
After the summit of G7 leaders in the afternoon, US President Biden had stated via tweets that G7 leaders had agreed to proceed with a “devastating package of sanctions” and various other measures that will ensure that they hold Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine.
” In the early morning hours, I had a meeting with my G7 colleagues to talk about the president’s illegitimate aggression against Ukraine. We decided to proceed with massive sanctions and other economic measures to make sure we hold Russia accountable, ” Biden said in an email.
US President Biden has also called a meeting of the National Security Council in the White House Situation Room to discuss the “unprovoked and unjustified attack” on Ukraine in which he contemplated ways to be able to hold Russia to account for their massive attack on Ukraine as and the White House had informed earlier.
After the sound of explosions was heard in Kyiv, Ukrainian capital Kyiv this morning, Biden had said that the United States and its allies would react in a coordinated and decisive manner to “an unjustified and unprovoked strike of Russian militaries” of Kyiv on Ukraine.
