President Joe Biden on Monday accused his counterpart, Russia President Vladimir Putin of trying to destroy Ukraine\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
According to Biden, this is as witnessed by Russian bombardments of civilian targets such as schools, hospitals, daycare centres and museums.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe what Putin is attempting to do is to eliminate the identity of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can\u2019t occupy it, but he can try to destroy its identity,\u2019\u2019 Biden said in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Biden said \u201cPutin must pay a dear price for his barbarism in Ukraine,\u2019\u2019 in order to deter others from taking similar action, in reference to military tensions around Taiwan.<\/p>\n
He was speaking at a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Joe Biden on Monday accused his counterpart, Russia President Vladimir Putin of trying to destroy Ukraine\u2019s identity. According to Biden, this is as witnessed by Russian bombardments of civilian targets such as schools, hospitals, daycare centres and museums. \u201cI believe what Putin is attempting to do is to eliminate the identity of Ukraine. \u201cHe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":155887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1663,31172,2923,14131,916],"class_list":["post-190114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-joe-biden","tag-president-vladimir-putin","tag-russia","tag-tokyo","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"\n