Outgoing US President Joe Biden has mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin for thinking he could easily conquer Kyiv, while also bragging about visiting the Ukrainian capital during the war. In his final policy speech delivered in the State Department on Monday, Biden said Russia has failed to achieve its strategic goals in Ukraine since the invasion of the country in February 2022.
“When Putin invaded Ukraine, he thought he’d conquer Kyiv in a matter of days… The truth is, since that war began, I’m the only one that’s stood in the center of Kyiv, not him. Putin never has,” Biden said. Biden went on explaining that Vladimir Putin was unable to change the trajectory in his favour.
“And now, nearly three, three years later, Putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives. He has failed thus far to subjugate Ukraine, failed to break, to break the unity of NATO and failed to make large territorial gains,” Biden stressed.
The US president went on praising his administration’s success during his single term in office. “The United States is winning the worldwide competition,” Biden said, adding that authoritarian states like Russia, Iran, China and North Korea were alighted “out of weakness than out of strength”.
