as the conflict nears the one-year mark, the russian president this morning is, again, falsely accusing the west of starting a war and claims russia wants to solve the conflict peacefully. meanwhile president joe biden is in poland as wool speak following his historic trip to ukraine s capitol. we ll have new details about the surprise visit including why the president chose kyiv. meanwhile the maga members of congress stay on brand criticizing the president for visiting the war torn country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. this morning president joe biden is in warsaw, poland, where he ll visit president aduda ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counte
used and is using force only to try to bring the conflict to an end. none of this of course is true. he once again refer today government of ukraine as a, quote, neo-nazi regime and made one specific threat the longer long-range missiles are delivered to ukraine the farthe correspondent michael hughes. no bac the same propaganda and lies and no sign whatsoever this conflict is going to end anytime soon. do you anticipate that russia as it is prone to do will lash out and change things in the wake of president biden s visit to kyiv? well, it s interesting, jonathan. i mean for the last several weeks we ve been hearing casting report about a massive russian
i don t think he ll say anything specific to what president putin says or will say. he might. but in general his presence both in europe and specifically in ukraine yesterday was designed to be that rebuttal. white house correspondent for reuters, jeff mason, thank you as always. still ahead we re going to go live to cnbc for an early look what s driving wall street, plus microsoft s response on some unsettling conversations with its new ai powered chat bought. the business headlines are next. t bought the business headlines are next. doesn t your family deserve the best?
ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, and to the rest of the world in historic fashion yesterday by making that surprise visit to ukraine. with air-raid sirens ringing in the background, biden stood alongside ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in the capital city of kyiv. one year later kyiv stands and you crane stands, democracy
limited in capacity. some question now is he going to do something stupid. one of the story lines this week is russia s invasion has gone so poorly putin s power at home has only increased, and then you ve gotten reporting about how he has eye on another country, belarus. yeah, that s right. so myself and a consortium of international investigative journalists got our hands on a strategy document drafted by putin s own presidential administration in the fall of 2021, so several months before the invasion of ukraine. and the strategy document lays out in pretty granular detail howdetail, how russia plans to annex or absorb the entire country of belarus by 2030. the most surprising thing a lot of analysts told us is why would it take them so long to do that? they ve basically control belarus now. the document really hits home at something president biden said