Bide denounces Russian invasion, casting it as part of a decades-long attempt to crush democracies.

 

Aljazeera: Two rockets fired in the first attack injured five people, according to Lviv's governor

“WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, declaring ‘for God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power’ and casting the military clash in Europe as the ‘test of all time’ in a decades-long battle to defend democracy. In a speech from a castle that served for centuries as a home for Polish monarchs, Mr. Biden described the face-off with Mr. Putin as a moment he has long warned about: a clash of competing global ideologies, of liberty versus oppression. ‘Russia’s choice of war is an example one of the oldest human impulses — using brute force and disinformation to satisfy a craving for absolute power and control,’ he declared before a crowd of hundreds of people in the courtyard of the Royal Castle and several thousand more outside its stone walls, watching on a large screen. ...”

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NY Times: Germany says it is moving quickly to cut the cord on Russian energy. (Video)

 

Germany’s vice chancellor and economic minister estimated that Germany could be independent of Russian gas by the middle of 2024.