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“A successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in the next few weeks would be humiliating for Russia and would narrow Putin’s options even further and risk further escalation by Moscow.”
The speech from Putin elicited hard-line responses from Kyiv and the west.
US President Joe Biden hit back in a fiery speech in which he declared his administration is “fully prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory”.
He added: “America and its allies are not going, let me emphasise this, are not going to be intimidated by Putin and his reckless words and threats,” Biden said.”
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