Biden Warns Vladimir Putin Of Unprecedented Sanctions If Ukraine Attacked

A day after talking for two hours by video link, Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin got "the message.".

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he had warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of unprecedented US sanctions should Russian troops massed on the border of Ukraine launch an attack.

A day after talking for two hours by video link, Biden said Putin got "the message.".

Asked in an interview with Die Welt TV whether he could imagine using the pipeline as leverage to ward off a Russian attack on Ukraine, Scholz said his government wants "the inviolability of the borders to be respected" and "everybody understands that there would be consequences if this were not the case.".

Biden said that in addition to economic measures, a new Russian attack on Ukraine would trigger a bolstered US military presence on the territory of existing NATO allies in eastern Europe.

However, Biden said that sending US troops to defend Ukraine without NATO agreement was ruled out.

Regarding Russia's contention that NATO expansion into its former Soviet strongholds poses a threat, Biden said Moscow and the major NATO allies were working at a high level on "whether or not we could work out any accommodations as it relates to bringing down temperature along the eastern front.".

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has said he is ready to negotiate with Putin, welcomed Tuesday's video summit.