- Says US Ready To Respond With Stiff Sanctions, Attack In Support Of Ukraine
US President Joe Biden is addressing the nation from the White House as his administration assesses Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden “will deliver remarks on Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine,” the White House said in its daily guidance.
In a Twitter message published earlier today, Biden said he agreed with fellow G7 leaders “to move forward on devastating packages of sanctions and other economic measures to hold Russia to account.”
The US and the world have not seen a “conventional move like this, nation state to nation state, since World War II” a senior defense official had told reporters earlier on Thursday. “Certainly nothing on this size and scope and scale.”
Details later…