european union, and others in the effort to stop putin s brutality. but before i head out to the west coast, i want to quickly update the american people on the latest steps we re taking to support the people of ukraine and to hold putin accountable for his brutal and bloody war. they left behind horrifying evidence. you reported it. by the way, i don t say this often, but i think we should give enormous credit to the folks of your agencies that are on the ground in ukraine in these spots. i ve spoken to several of them. we owe them. but uncovering these evidences of their atrocities and war crimes against the ukrainian people, it s so clear to the whole world now. now they ve launched and refocused their campaign to seize new territory in eastern ukraine. we re in a critical window now
democratically elected government still remain in power, and ukrainian armed forces, joined by brave ukrainian civilians, have thwarted russia s conquest of their country. they have been bolstered from day one by an unstinting supply of weapons, ammunition, armor, intelligence from the nations of the free world led by us, the united states. as russia continues to grind out military advances and their military advances and the brutalities against ukraine, putin is banking on us losing interest. that s been my view. you heard me say that from the beginning. he was counting on nato, european union, our allies in asia cracking, moving away. he s betting on western unity will crack. he ll still betting on that. once again, we re going to prove him wrong. we will not lesson our resolve. we ll stand with the people of ukraine. we will never fail in our
different topography. the third is western unity. western unity, of course, has been a big part of biden s attempts to try and prove to putin and he said it again right now that putin is banking on the west losing interest. we re going to prove him wrong. those were his exact words. the thing, though, however, and this is interesting because he said western unity. he didn t point to global unity. that s where the cracks really exist because much of the rest of the world, if you look at the population of the world, india and its neighbors, which is about a quarter of the world s population, add in china you re close to half of the world s population. these are all countries that not only have refused to condemn russia so far, but they are actually increasing their purchases of russians oil and gas. india, for example, has purchased more russian crude in the last month than it has in
understood what kind of weapons the ukrainian military needs, but also understood the fierce urgency with which they needed them. now we have a sense of why he made those comments that the united states is very clear about the kind of fighting that the ukrainians are doing in the east, very clear about what they ll need. jose, i ll also say the president became a little emotional as he was talking about the human cost of this war. he repeated that statistic that you and i have talked about, two-thirds of ukraine s children have been displaced over these two months of fighting. the president called it an absolute outrage and it is a reminder that as we talk about the military hardware needed in the east, it is the civilians of this country who are paying the price for what the president called putin s conquest. jose? raf, thank you so much. important what you point out, those three weeks, which is so significant. carol, the president also saying that he will be going to congress next
measures to crack down on the entities and individuals attempting to evade our unprecedented sanctions, not just ours, but throughout the west. today i m announcing that the united states will ban russian affiliated ships from our ports as they did in europe. that means no ship, no ship that sails under the russian flag or that is owned or operated by a russian interest will be allowed to dock in a united states port or access our shores, none, none. this is another critical step we re taking with our partners and european union, canada continuing to deny russia the benefits of the international economic system they so enjoyed in the past. we don t know how long this war will last, but as we approach the two-month mark, here s what we do know. putin has failed to achieve his grand ambitions on the battlefield after weeks of shelling kyiv. kyiv still stands. president zelenskyy and his