Ukraine Update…347 days into the Russian move on the Ukraine…Biden throws down against Putin and the War…..

The American President leading the European support for the Ukraine comes out strong…..

President Biden vowed on Tuesday that the United States would “not tire” in its support of Ukraine, describing the American commitment to NATO and Ukraine as a battle for freedom against autocracy in a speech delivered just hours after President Vladimir V. Putin presented a radically different account of the war.

In his national address, Mr. Putin showed no sign that he would change course, instead signaling that Russians should prepare for a long war ahead. He accused the West of a “totalitarian” project to control the world under the guise of spreading liberal values, and declared Russia was suspending the one remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States.

Russian President Putin knocks his own countries internal political moves due to his failures in the war and asks his people to stop leaving and come home….The Russian President admitted the war is hurting his economy…

He also announced that Russia will not go on with a nuclear weapons agreement that has been in place for decades…

Putin tells his people the conflict will continue…

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image above …Watching a broadcast of President Vladimir V. Putin’s annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Tuesday.Credit…Yuri Kadobnov/Agence France-Presse — Getty

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Here’s what to know

• In his remarks, Biden lauded the NATO alliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin thought he would get the “Finlandization of NATO,” Biden said, referring to the country’s status as a nonmember, which its government is seeking to reverse. “Instead, he got the NATO-ization of Finland.”
• Putin announced Tuesday that Russia would suspend its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START, the last nuclear nonproliferation accord it has with the United States. Putin’s state of the nation address to Russia’s parliament was also an attack on the West, which Putin accused of exacerbating the conflict by providing weapons to Ukraine. Russia will not “withdraw” completely from the treaty, which has been extended to run through Feb. 4, 2026, but he said that Russia would not allow NATO countries to inspect its nuclear arsenal.
• Biden is set to meet the leaders of the Bucharest Nine, a group of Eastern European NATO allies created after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
• NATO is “increasingly concerned that China may be planning to provide lethal support for Russia’s war,” the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said in an addressalongside Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, in Brussels. China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, is set to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow on Wednesday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said….

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