Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are set to make competing speeches on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, is because of make his delayed state of the nation speech on Tuesday, wherein he’s anticipated to set out goals for the second 12 months of his invasion of Ukraine.
The speech, to members of each homes of parliament and to navy commanders and troopers, is because of start at 9.00am in central Moscow.
“At such an important and really difficult juncture in our improvement, our lives, everyone seems to be ready for a message within the hope of listening to an evaluation of what’s taking place, an evaluation of the particular navy operation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised state tv.
President Joe Biden is scheduled to fulfill with Polish President Andrzej Duda as Mr Putin’s speech is beginning. He’ll then ship an handle from the gardens of Warsaw’s Royal Fort at about 3pm the place he is anticipated to focus on the dedication of the central European nation and different allies to Ukraine over the previous 12 months.
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How Joe Biden swept into Kyiv on a prepare from Poland amid a cloak of secrecy
Joe Biden made his first journey to Ukraine as US president on Monday, overriding objections from his safety employees to make a gesture of solidarity with President Volodymyr Zelensky. However whereas the welcome from Kyiv may hardly have been hotter, the go to had all the trimmings of a mission past enemy traces.
The journey was made in close to whole secrecy, Mr Biden’s bodyguards had warned that they could not guarantee his safety. Relatively than travelling in by way of his presidential jet Air Force One, he took Ukraine’s state prepare service from the Polish border 400 miles east.
Colin Freeman has extra on the US president’s shock go to to Kyiv here
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Italy’s prime minister heads to Kyiv
Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, was heading to Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, native media reported.
Meloni, who took workplace in October, has repeatedly expressed a need to go to Ukraine to display her authorities’s help following Russia’s invasion nearly precisely one 12 months in the past.
Nato member Italy has supplied money and weapons to assist Ukraine, and earlier this month agreed to ship cell surface-to-air missile methods that it has collectively developed with France.
“We have now supplied monetary, navy, humanitarian and civilian help” to Kyiv “and Ukraine can actually depend on Italy as a result of we now have proven because the begin… that we had been right here (for Kyiv) and we are going to proceed to be right here,” Meloni stated at a press convention in Warsaw on Monday.
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