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Ukraine Live Updates: Biden Caps 3 Days of Diplomacy With Rebuke of Putin
The Kremlin condemned President Biden’s comments, and the White House said he was not calling for regime change. Missiles hit the city of Lviv and thousands were still stranded in Mariupol.
Firefighters at the site of an oil facility hit by a Russian air strike outside of Lviv, Ukraine, Sunday. Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press
Austin Ramzy
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
President Biden ended three days of diplomacy in Europe on Saturday that brought him within miles of the war in Ukraine, using a speech in Poland to rally American allies for what he said would be a long fight and escalating his personal denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin, saying the Russian leader “cannot remain in power.”
Mr. Biden described the war in sweeping terms, as “a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.” He portrayed it as part of a long struggle against authoritarianism, linking it to past uprisings against Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.
Russian officials dismissed Mr. Biden’s pointed statement about Mr. Putin’s future, with Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, telling reporters that the leader of Russia was “elected by the Russians” and “not for Biden to decide.”
Mr. Biden’s remark, in the closing lines of his speech, was quickly examined for signs of whether it was a considered declaration that the United States sought Mr. Putin’s ouster. Some analysts described it as undermining Mr. Biden’s diplomacy on the trip and potentially giving Mr. Putin grounds to extend the war. Others described it as an off-the-cuff expression of Mr. Biden’s exasperation that Mr. Putin, whom he recently called a “war criminal,” could lead Russia.
Mr. Biden’s trip began in Brussels and ended with an effort to bolster Poland, a NATO ally on Ukraine’s western border that has felt immediate strains from the war, taking in more than half of the 3.7 million people who have fled Ukraine over the past month. Mr. Biden met with a few of them on Saturday, after which he called Mr. Putin a “butcher.”
He also met with the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, describing the commitment to collective defense under NATO as “sacred.”
Just hours before Mr. Biden’s speech, a Russian missile struck Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, about 50 miles from the Polish border, that has been relatively untouched by the war. That attack appeared to undercut an assertion by the Russian military that it was shifting its focus to securing the eastern Donbas region.
In other developments:
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine criticized European leaders in an evening speech, saying they had fallen short of providing Ukraine with planes, tanks and other weaponry that could help the country defend itself against the Russian invasion.
Tensions flared in another former Soviet region as Azerbaijani forces launched drone strikes against the army of Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but claims independence and is closely allied with Armenia.
Valerie Hopkins
March 27, 2022, 4:36 a.m. ET25 minutes ago
25 minutes ago
In Lviv, people survey the destruction from Russian strikes and fear that more will come.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/27/world/ukraine-russia-war?name=styln-russia-ukraine®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&variant=0_Control&is_new=false
The Kremlin condemned President Biden’s comments, and the White House said he was not calling for regime change. Missiles hit the city of Lviv and thousands were still stranded in Mariupol.
Firefighters at the site of an oil facility hit by a Russian air strike outside of Lviv, Ukraine, Sunday. Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press
Austin Ramzy
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
President Biden ended three days of diplomacy in Europe on Saturday that brought him within miles of the war in Ukraine, using a speech in Poland to rally American allies for what he said would be a long fight and escalating his personal denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin, saying the Russian leader “cannot remain in power.”
Mr. Biden described the war in sweeping terms, as “a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.” He portrayed it as part of a long struggle against authoritarianism, linking it to past uprisings against Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.
Russian officials dismissed Mr. Biden’s pointed statement about Mr. Putin’s future, with Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, telling reporters that the leader of Russia was “elected by the Russians” and “not for Biden to decide.”
Mr. Biden’s remark, in the closing lines of his speech, was quickly examined for signs of whether it was a considered declaration that the United States sought Mr. Putin’s ouster. Some analysts described it as undermining Mr. Biden’s diplomacy on the trip and potentially giving Mr. Putin grounds to extend the war. Others described it as an off-the-cuff expression of Mr. Biden’s exasperation that Mr. Putin, whom he recently called a “war criminal,” could lead Russia.
Mr. Biden’s trip began in Brussels and ended with an effort to bolster Poland, a NATO ally on Ukraine’s western border that has felt immediate strains from the war, taking in more than half of the 3.7 million people who have fled Ukraine over the past month. Mr. Biden met with a few of them on Saturday, after which he called Mr. Putin a “butcher.”
He also met with the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, describing the commitment to collective defense under NATO as “sacred.”
Just hours before Mr. Biden’s speech, a Russian missile struck Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, about 50 miles from the Polish border, that has been relatively untouched by the war. That attack appeared to undercut an assertion by the Russian military that it was shifting its focus to securing the eastern Donbas region.
In other developments:
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine criticized European leaders in an evening speech, saying they had fallen short of providing Ukraine with planes, tanks and other weaponry that could help the country defend itself against the Russian invasion.
Tensions flared in another former Soviet region as Azerbaijani forces launched drone strikes against the army of Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but claims independence and is closely allied with Armenia.
Valerie Hopkins
March 27, 2022, 4:36 a.m. ET25 minutes ago
25 minutes ago
In Lviv, people survey the destruction from Russian strikes and fear that more will come.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/27/world/ukraine-russia-war?name=styln-russia-ukraine®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&variant=0_Control&is_new=false
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