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The White House tried to clarify President Biden's comments in Poland. Mr. Biden was not calling for regime change in Russia, instead he meant that Vladimir ...

The meeting comes on Mr. Biden’s final day in Europe. Later, he is scheduled to meet with President Andrzej Duda of Poland, spend time with some Ukrainian refugees and deliver a speech. “It was agreed that if it is confirmed that our military is not in the city, everything will be calm.” An adviser to Ukraine’s president called the city of Slavutych near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant a “hot spot” as Russia forces entered. “Don’t even think about going on one single inch of NATO territory,” Biden says to Russia, raising his voice in his most animated moment of the speech. Biden has spoken directly to the people of Poland, Ukrainian refugees and now the people of Russia. “The forces of autocracy have revived all across the globe,” Mr. Biden said. Mr. Biden called that justification “a lie,” noting that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is Jewish and that his father’s family was killed in the Holocaust. “Their advantage in the sky is like the use of weapons of mass destruction,” Mr. Zelensky told Mr. Biden and the leaders of other NATO countries during their closed-door meeting on Thursday. “And you see the consequences today. Bad lapse in discipline that runs risk of extending the scope and duration of the war.” “And we believe that, at the end of the day, they will be able to connect the dots.” Period.” More broadly, he accused Mr. Putin of reviving the Cold War that pitted America against the Soviet Union for decades in a perilous face-off between nuclear-armed powers. Mr. Biden’s statement that Mr. Putin could no longer remain in power could be perceived “as a call for regime change,” said Michal Baranowski, a senior fellow and director of the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund, a nonpartisan policy organization.

An industrial facility in Lviv used for fuel storage has been burned as a result of a Russian strike, according to the western Ukrainian city's mayor.

In the edited video, a number of apparently captured Russian soldiers are seen blindfolded and some are stripped of most of their clothes. The IAEA said in a statement it was closely monitoring the situation. "Slavutych is Ukraine!" they chanted in the main square. "I assured President Biden that Belarusians are at the forefront of this struggle – and fearlessly stand alongside the people of Ukraine. I am confident that freedom and humanity will prevail. CNN could not confirm the Russian military deaths, or the vehicle captures. At one point, Ukrainian troops move toward the village school, where Russian forces appear to be holed up. Oleg Synegubov, Kharkiv regional administrator, said that a number of villages around Malaya Rogan were retaken by Ukrainian forces. In the video, the firefights between Russian and Ukrainian forces are seen among the houses and backyards of the village. A Ukrainian counterattack that began on Friday to the east of the city of Kharkiv has led to the recapture of several villages, according to the regional administrator. “And it’s not about panic. “I thanked President Biden for today’s speech in Warsaw and the US leadership in the great battle for freedom, the battle between liberty and repression," Tsikhanouskaya said. It’s about preparation.”

As Saturday draws to an end in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day: Russian forces attacked the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on ...

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Friday's announcement that Putin's forces were limiting operations to the Donbas and their mission was nearly complete is merely a shift in emphasis.

In this context, any lull in the fighting is likely to see the Russians seek to correct defects in their campaign plan, to regroup and to threaten a future campaign against Kyiv. Ukraine will seek to strengthen Kharkiv and try to prevent its encirclement, spoiling the staging area for Russia’s second objective after Mariupol. The question is whether the west shares them. The result is that Putin is rapidly losing all levers of influence in the west other than the application or threat of force. The outcome of this fighting is far from inevitable. But that does not mean a rapid end to the war.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatened to unravel global security, and that the world's democracies must ...

It is now part of the European Union and NATO. In Warsaw, Biden also visited a refugee reception centre at the national stadium. "I don't know what he wants to ask us here. Putin calls Russia's military actions in Ukraine a "special military operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" the country. "President Biden said what is happening in Ukraine will change the history of the 21st century, and we will work together to ensure that this change is in our favour, in Ukraine's favour, in the favour of the democratic world," Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on the country's national television service. The remarks at Warsaw's Royal Castle came as Biden made fresh security promises to Ukraine and branded Putin a "butcher" during a meeting with refugees who have fled the war in Ukraine to the Polish capital.

A top Russian general gave some of the most detailed public remarks to date on Russia's military strategy in Ukraine, claiming on Friday that the "first ...

"Initially, we did not plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians," Rudskoy said. "The public and individual experts are wondering what we are doing in the area of the blockaded Ukrainian cities," Rudskoy said. Putin has said the war is going according to plan, but Russian forces have incurred serious losses: Rudskoy said in the same briefing that 1,351 military personnel had been killed in Ukraine and 3,825 had been wounded.