president putin accuses the west of starting the war in ukraine. in a speech almost a year after the invasion, mr putin claimed the west is threatening the existence of russia itself. meanwhile us president joe biden is in poland, where he ll respond to mr putin s claims and call the war a struggle between democracy and autocracy. a fresh earthquake in turkey and syria leaves more people dead two weeks after the tremors that killed tens of thousands. the media watchdog ofcom says it is written to itv and sky to ask them to explain the reporting on the net in the reporting of nicola billy. it comes up to the report and criticised part of the media during the search for her. ofcom said it
this is bbc news, i m martine croxall. the headlines at two. president putin accuses the west of starting the war in ukraine. in a speech almost a year after the invasion, mr putin claimed the west is threatening the existence of russia itself. translation: everyone was pretending nothin: was translation: everyone was pretending nothing was happening. translation: everyone was pretending nothing was happening. i translation: everyone was pretending nothing was happening. i want translation: everyone was pretending nothing was happening. i want to - nothing was happening. i want to repeat it is they who are guilty who are culpable for the work and we are using force to stop it. meanwhile us presidentjoe biden is in poland where he ll respond to mr putin s claims and call the war a struggle between democracy and autocracy. a fresh earthquake in turkey and syria leaves more people dead
lost touch with reality. 0ur correspondent richard galpin reports. for almost a year now, russia and ukraine have been at war. what was supposed to have been a quick strike by russian forces to defeat the ukrainian military failed. instead it has become a prolonged war, something vladimir putin had not expected. in his state of the nation speech today, the president once again portrayed his country as the victim, claiming it is the west, and not russia, that had started the war in ukraine. russia, said the president, wasjust trying to stop the conflict. translation: i want to repeat that it was they who are guilty, | are culpable, for the war, and we are using our force to stop it.
ukraine and last september it was russia who illegally annexed for ukrainian regions four ukrainian regions, but there was a lot of patriotic bluster today but the main announcement, really the only announcement, really the only announcement, was that russia will be suspending its participation in a key nuclear weapons agreement, control agreement with america, this is the treaty which places limitations on warheads and allows inspections of nuclear sites. mr putin even threatened to restart nuclear testing in russia if america does it first. so i think quite a worrying development. this is the last remaining major nuclear weapons treaty between america and russia. how worried for the west be by that withdrawal from that treaty? the kremlin has talked about the nuclear
and is now in poland, where he will be delivering a key speech in which he is highly likely to contradict most if not all of what president putin has said. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, had this assessment of vladimir putin s speech. his special military operation has not gone at all according to plan. it s resulted in heavy russian military casualties. but in this address today, we saw no hint of remorse, no hint of regret, no hints that mr putin is looking for a compromise or an off ramp. quite the opposite. he came across actually as super confident that he could survive international sanctions, that he would retain the support of the russian people, and that he would secure some kind of victory in ukraine. not only do we see no compromise, but we saw escalation with vladimir putin suspending russia s participation in this last remaining key nuclear arms control