“Putin thought NATO would crack, but NATO is more united than ever before,” U.S. President Joe Biden said from Poland today, a day after a surprise visit to Kiev, while twelve days have passed since the start of the war. months. Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“A year ago, the world was preparing for the fall of Kyiv,” Biden said against the backdrop of Warsaw. A year later, “Kyiv stands strong, proud and, most importantly, free,” the American continued, echoing what he had said the day before during a visit to the Ukrainian capital.

“Putin’s Russia today is facing stronger democracies,” the American leader said, stressing that “support for Ukraine will not stop” and that “NATO is not going to be divided.”

“Ukraine will never become a field of victory for Russia,” said the American president, who was in Kyiv a day earlier for a close meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

New sanctions

Contrary to what Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier today in his speech from Moscow, Joe Biden was quick to emphasize that the West is not planning any military attack on Russia.

However, the West is preparing a new package of sanctions against Moscow, which should be announced this week, as the American leader said today from Poland, whose role he even praised in the last twelve months of the war in Ukraine.

Joe Biden reaffirmed that the US will defend every inch of NATO territory. “Every NATO member knows this. And Russia also knows this: an attack on one is an attack on all,” he said, referring to the 5th article from the hall of his speech in Warsaw.

The American president also announced that the United States will host the next NATO summit in 2024, and next year marks the 75th anniversary of the formation of the North Atlantic Alliance.

According to Reuters