WATCH LIVE: Pres. Biden to rebuke Russia's war on Ukraine in speech at U.N. General Assembly.
Biden told the U.N. General Assembly that reports of Russian abuses against civilians in Ukraine "should make your blood run cold."Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden on Wednesday cast the defining conflict facing global leaders as a duel between democracy and autocracy, directly responding to new threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin to escalate the war in Ukraine.
"Just today, President Putin has made overt nuclear threats against Europe and reckless disregard of the responsibilities of a nonproliferation regime," Biden continued. In Putin's case, the most pressing of those headwinds are losses on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to administration officials.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will also give a speech on Wednesday, but he will do so remotely as the only leader allowed to appear virtually this year. But U.S. officials appear to be aligning behind a plan. Instead of subtracting Russia from the permanent members of the council, they may seek to make additions.
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