In a summing up of his administration's foreign policy, US President Joe Biden mentioned Russia's war against Ukraine and reiterated that Moscow has failed to achieve its "strategic objectives".

Source: Biden at the US Department of State on Monday, 13 January, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Biden referred to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, saying that the US’s enemies, including Russia, have grown weaker under his administration.

"When Putin invaded Ukraine, he thought he would capture Kyiv in a matter of days. In fact, after the war started, I was the one who visited the centre of Kyiv, not him. Putin did not," the president joked.

"It was a long train ride, but I'm the only [US] commander-in-chief to visit a war zone not controlled by US forces," he added.

Biden said the US had come to Ukraine’s aid and stopped Putin, so that in almost three years of full-scale war he "has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives".

"He has failed thus far to subjugate Ukraine; failed to break the unity of NATO; and failed to make large territorial gains," Biden listed.

Later he named the two tasks he had set himself since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion: to unite the world in support of Ukraine and to "avoid war between two nuclear powers".

"We did both those things. Today Ukraine is still a free and independent country with the potential for a bright future, and we laid the foundation for the next administration so they can protect the bright future of the Ukrainian people," Biden concluded.

Earlier, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the current US leadership is making sure that it gives the incoming Trump administration the strongest possible hand to play around the world.

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