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The New START treaty was signed in Prague in 2010, came into force the following year and was extended in 2021 for five more years just after US president Joe ...

[Wagner](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/wagner), accused Russia’s defense minister and chief of general staff on Tuesday of starving his fighters in [Ukraine](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ukraine) of ammunition, which he charged amounts to an attempt to “destroy” the force. I am grateful for this to all our warriors, all soldiers and sergeants, officers and generals who are defending the respective frontline areas,” he said in his nightly address yesterday. The invaders are using the entire range of weapons against our guys there, including CS gas grenades,” the Ukrainian president said. “Has someone given a security guarantee?” one asked, with another answering: “We did”. “You know, we could have destroyed Biden.” During his trip to Kyiv, the president promised another £500m in military aid to Ukraine. Prigozhin said in a raised voice that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov are handing out orders “left and right” not to supply Wagner with ammunition and not to support it with air transport. “This Russian shelling did not and could not have any military purpose. Discussing the US president’s trip to Kyiv on Russian state TV, the presenters claim they could have “destroyed Biden” while he was meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. The terrorist state is trying to tell the world by firing missiles at city streets, at residential buildings, at schools, at pharmacies and hospitals, at churches, at bus stops, at markets, at power plants that terror is allegedly something to be reckoned with,” he added. Speaking in his state-of-the-nation address, Putin also said that Russia should stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the U.S. Explaining his decision to suspend Russia’s obligations under New START, Putin accused the U.S. Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned fresh missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians in Kherson as he downplayed Vladimir Putin’s speech.

The Kremlin leader said Ukraine and its allies were to blame for the invasion and that Russia 'used force in order to stop it'. Russian President Vladimir ...

[Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky](https://inews.co.uk/topic/volodymyr-zelensky?ico=in-line_link), called Mr Biden’s visit a “historic” moment as he was seen walking around Kyiv’s city centre with his US counterpart, whose visit saw air raid sirens going off and heightened security. A White House statement released upon the president’s arrival said Mr Putin was “dead wrong” to think he “could outlast” Ukraine and the West. Mr Putin said the West was fighting Russia on the economic front and wanted to make people “suffer”, but the Russian economy had proven to be “far more strong than what they thought in the West”. He compared Ukraine to Hitler’s Germany as he said “in the 1930s, Western countries opened the path for Nazi Germany to develop and in this century they do this to Ukraine”. With the conflict causing the death of thousands of civilians and troops on both sides, Mr Putin said a new fund would be set up to support the relatives of the “I have already said many times that the people of Ukraine have become the hostage of the Kyiv regime and its Western overlords, who have effectively occupied this country in the political, military and economic sense,” he said. The Russian leader claimed Russia was “impossible to defeat on the battlefield” and pitted it as a clash of values between Russia and the West, arguing the West was now targeting Russia’s cultural and religious institutions. The Kremlin leader went on to say that Moscow was “sincerely open for dialogue with the West” but what it got in response were “dishonest answers”. Mr Putin said during a long and bitter address that Ukraine and its allies in the West had sparked the war and paid tribute to soliders and those who had given their lives to the conflict. [Vladimir Putin](https://inews.co.uk/topic/vladimir-putin?ico=in-line_link) suspended Moscow’s participation in a nuclear arms treaty with the US, as he blamed the West for “starting” the war in Ukraine and vowed Russia would not lose on the battlefield during a major speech on Tuesday. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that Russia’s decision to suspend participation in the Start treaty “makes the world more dangerous”, and he urged Moscow to reconsider. “Arms control is vital to the security of our planet and this is another example of Putin jeopardising global security for political gain.”

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday vowed to continue with Russia's year-long war in Ukraine and accused the U.S.-led NATO alliance of fanning the flames of ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his decision to invade Ukraine, which he said he was forced into to protect Russia from what he described as ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave no indication that he would end the war in Ukraine any time soon in his state-of-the-nation speech in Moscow on ...

The Russian economy and the management turned out to be much stronger than they thought,” he declared. The figure he provided largely seems to be in the ballpark forecast by international financial institutions. It is estimated that in 2022, Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by at least 2.2% in the best-case scenario and by up to 3.9% in the worst-case scenario. Russia’s GDP is forecast to decline by 5.6% in the worst-case scenario (OECD) or by 3.3% according to the World Bank. There are hundreds of them (…) around the world,” Putin said. “They also cannot fail to realise that it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield. “We are not fighting against the Ukrainian people,” Putin said. He also announced the creation of a “special state fund” to provide “personalised help to the families of dead fighters and the veterans of the ‘special military operation’.” Putin, however, did not give an indication of what to expect next. “We are talking about reviving enterprises and jobs in the ports of the Sea of Azov, which has again become an inland sea of Russia, and building new modern roads, as we did in Crimea”, he said, referring to the peninsula Russia invaded and annexed in 2014. “They were the ones who started the war,” Putin claimed, adding that Russia was using force “in order to stop it” and that Moscow had done “everything we could to resolve the Donbas problem peacefully”. As Friday’s anniversary of the invasion approaches, Putin again claimed that Ukraine and its Western allies had “started the war,” insisting he would not abandon the operation in Ukraine.

The president says he is taking Russia out of the last nuclear arms control treaty with America.

And we used force and are using force to stop it." We will react to it accordingly. "But if the US conducts tests, we will do it as well." He continues to push the false narrative that the West is to blame for the war. New Start is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and America. As usual he blamed the West.