In a “campaign of reassurance” in the Eastern states, today, Wednesday, the Joe Biden in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear warning.

The US president will meet in Warsaw with the group of nine leaders of NATO’s eastern European countries, in the presence of the alliance’s Secretary General, to assure them of Washington’s “unwavering” support for Moscow, the day after the Russian’s warmongering speech president.

Biden “will meet with the leaders of the Bucharest Nine (B9), a group of NATO allies on our eastern flank, in the presence of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, to reiterate unwavering US support for the Alliance’s security,” it said. in a statement by the White House.

This indication of US support at the meeting to be held in the presidential palace in Warsaw is intended to reassure the nine countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), whose common point is that they were former members of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact and are now in NATO’s eastern wing.

The meeting comes a day after a speech by the Russian president, who noted that he would “methodically” continue the attack he launched almost a year ago in Ukraine and announced Russia’s withdrawal from the Russian-American New Start treaty on nuclear disarmament, evoking memories from the worst hours of the Cold War.

The Westerners they want to be “done with us once and for all” Putin noted, accusing Washington and its European allies of being “responsible for fueling the Ukrainian conflict and its victims.”

Biden responded to him during the speech he delivered the same day in Warsaw, that “the West is not conspiring to attack Russia, as Putin said.” “They are not the enemy of the millions of Russian citizens who only want to live in peace with their neighbors,” he added.

The US president, who the previous day had made a surprise visit to Kiev where he pledged to provide arms to the Ukrainians, also underlined that US support for Ukraine “will not weaken”.
“Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, never,” the American president repeated, referring to America’s “iron will.”

“NATO will not be divided and we will not give up,” assured Biden, who is expected to return to Washington this evening.

Putin sparked a backlash yesterday by announcing Russia’s withdrawal from the New Start nuclear disarmament treaty and also saying he was ready to resume nuclear tests.

This announcement was moderated a little later by his foreign ministry, which assured in a statement that “Russia intends to maintain a responsible approach and will continue during the validity of the treaty to strictly respect the quantitative limits on offensive strategic weapons.”

This condition, which was signed in 2010, is the last bilateral agreement of its kind between the Russians and the Americans and aims to limit their nuclear arsenals. Moscow had already announced in early August that it was suspending scheduled inspections of its nuclear facilities.

Putin also called on Russian forces to be “ready to conduct nuclear weapons tests” should the US be the first to do so.

A world without nuclear arms control is “much more dangerous,” Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said afterward.

During Putin’s speech, Russian forces shelled buildings in Kherson, southern Ukraine, killing at least six civilians, according to Ukrainian authorities.