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US president will reportedly give Warsaw speech on the same day Russian leader gives Moscow address
‘We are a country at war . we have to fight and rebuild at the same time. You can’t keep it like a war museum’ “President Biden will make it clear that the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine .
‘We are a country at war ... we have to fight and rebuild at the same time. You can’t keep it like a war museum’ “President Biden will make it clear that the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine ... for as long as it takes. ... And I would suspect that you’ll hear him messaging Mr Putin as well, as well as the Russian people.” Mr Kirby said. Elsewhere, the White House said on Friday the Russian mercenary company Wagner Group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, with about 9,000 of those fighters killed in action. The United States estimates that 90 per cent of Wagner group soldiers killed in Ukraine since December were convicts, Mr Kirby told reporters at a regular briefing. Half of the overall deaths occurred since mid-December, as fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut intensified, an NSC spokesperson said, citing newly downgraded intelligence. Mr Kirby said mercenary group had made incremental gains in Bakhmut in and around Bakhmut over the last few days, but those had taken many months to achieve and came at a “devastating cost that is not sustainable”. “It is possible that they may end up being successful in Bakhmut, but it will prove of no real worth to them because it is of no real strategic value,” he said, adding that Ukrainian forces would maintain strong defensive lines across the Donbas region. Mr Kirby said Wagner continued to rely heavily on convicts, who were sent to war with no training or equipment, despite recent comments from group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin that he had stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has demanded that western allies adopt a united front to expedite arms deliveries to his country, warning “it is speed on which life depends”. Speaking by video link at the opening of the three-day Munich Security Conference, he likened Ukraine to a biblical David battling a Russian Goliath who “won’t be defeated by the power of conversation but the power of actions, by the courage of the sling”.
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