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MARYLAND (77WABC) — President Biden warned Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t have a way out” of the war in Ukraine as Kyiv’s foreign minister upgraded his country’s goals for victory to push Russian forces out of the country.
During a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Maryland, Biden touted the United States’ efforts at rallying the Western response to Russia’s invasion.
“[It’s] critically important because Putin is a — I’ve known him for a while. I’ve spent time with him. He’s a very, very, very calculating man,” Biden said. “And the problem I worry about now is that he doesn’t have a way out right now, and I’m trying to figure out what we do about that.”
Biden’s comments came almost three months after Putin’s assault on Ukraine, which began Feb. 24. However, March saw strong pushback from Ukrainian troops who drove Russian forces away from Kyiv and forced them to regroup in the eastern region of the country.
Russia has launched an offensive in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, where it has propped up a pair of self-proclaimed, pro-Moscow “people’s republics” since 2014. Russia has also been trying to cut off Kyiv’s access to ports on the Black Sea.
