US President Joe Biden condemned the “utter brutality” of Russia’s missile barrage at civilian targets in Ukraine, a significant escalation of a conflict now in its eighth month.
at civilian targets in Ukraine – a significant escalation of a conflict now in its eighth month.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with Mr Biden on Monday and stressed that “air defence is currently the number one priority”. Leaders of the Group of Seven nations will hold an emergency call Tuesday with Mr Zelensky to discuss their response.A White House official confirmed Mr Biden and Mr Zelensky spoke on Monday afternoon but didn’t describe the contents of the call.
Administration officials said the president’s comments were not based off new intelligence and that the US had no information indicating mr Putin was imminently seeking to use nuclear weapons. Still, the comments revealed Mr Biden’s worries that the conflict could spin out of control and have drastic, deadly consequences for the continent and the world.
People look at the site of a blast by a pedestrian bridge over looking the Dnipro River in the city centre on in Kyiv, Ukraine.“He also extended his deepest sympathies to the foreign minister for the people of Ukraine who have lost loved ones today,” the department said in a statement. Russian officials and Kremlin allies cheered the strikes, which hard-line nationalist figures urged in response to the Kerch Strait bridge explosion.
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