KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to make a speech on Tuesday (Feb 21) setting out aims for the second year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a day after US President Joe Biden
promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes.
Biden, in his trademark aviator sunglasses, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in green battle fatigues, walked side-by-side to a gold-domed cathedral in Kyiv on a bright winter Monday morning pierced by the sound of air raid sirens. Outside the cathedral, burned-out Russian tanks stand as a symbol of Moscow's failed assault on the capital at the outset of its invasion, which began on Feb 24. Its forces swiftly reached Kyiv's ramparts - only to be turned back by unexpectedly fierce resistance.
Biden arrived late on Monday in Warsaw, where he is scheduled to meet Poland's President Andrzej Duda, along with other leaders of countries on NATO's eastern flank, the following day. "Of course for the Kremlin this will be seen as further proof that the United States has bet on Russia's strategic defeat in the war and that the war itself has turned irrevocably into a war between Russia and the West," said Tatiana Stanovaya, a Russian political analyst.
China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Monday called for a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war during a stopover in Hungary ahead of a visit to Moscow for talks.In public, China has remained neutral, despite signing a"no limits" friendship pact with Russia weeks before the invasion.. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the United States was"in no position to make demands of China".
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