Biden and Putin offer radically different portraits of the war in Ukraine.

Just hours after Vladimir Putin blamed the West for starting the war in Ukraine and said he was suspending the one remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States, President Biden on Tuesday accused the Russian leader of committing atrocities on a vast scale, and called on the world to stand up to him and other “tyrants.”

In a split-screen moment, the two speeches, only hours apart and just three days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, gave radically different accounts of how a war that has already created hundreds of thousands of casualties is reshaping Europe. Read more

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