Biden calls Ukraine incursion ‘a real dilemma for Putin’

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US President Joe Biden says Ukraine has ‘created a real dilemma’ for Russian President Vladimir Putin by sending troops into Russia.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/europe/joe-biden-statements-ukraine-incursion-russia-august-13-2024/

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00:00U.S. President Joe Biden says Ukraine has, quote,

00:04created a real dilemma for Russian President Vladimir Putin

00:07by sending troops into Russia.

00:10Biden says on Tuesday, August 13, he has been briefed

00:13regularly about the matter over the past week.

00:15On August 6, some 1,000 Ukrainian troops penetrated

00:19and occupied hundreds of square kilometers

00:21of the Russian border region of Kursk.

00:23The offense appears to have caught Russia off guard.

00:26Putin has said he thinks it's Ukraine's way of gaining leverage

00:30ahead of possible negotiations.

00:32The U.S. has supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars of weaponry

00:36since Russia's invasion in February 2022.

00:39In May, Biden authorized Ukraine to use those weapons

00:42against targets in Russia that were supporting attacks

00:44on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

00:47White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre

00:49says the U.S. has no involvement in the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk.

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