US President Joe Biden says Ukraine has ‘created a real dilemma’ for Russian President Vladimir Putin by sending troops into Russia.
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00:00U.S. President Joe Biden says Ukraine has, quote,
00:04created a real dilemma for Russian President Vladimir Putin
00:07by sending troops into Russia.
00:10Biden says on Tuesday, August 13, he has been briefed
00:13regularly about the matter over the past week.
00:15On August 6, some 1,000 Ukrainian troops penetrated
00:19and occupied hundreds of square kilometers
00:21of the Russian border region of Kursk.
00:23The offense appears to have caught Russia off guard.
00:26Putin has said he thinks it's Ukraine's way of gaining leverage
00:30ahead of possible negotiations.
00:32The U.S. has supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars of weaponry
00:36since Russia's invasion in February 2022.
00:39In May, Biden authorized Ukraine to use those weapons
00:42against targets in Russia that were supporting attacks
00:44on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
00:47White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre
00:49says the U.S. has no involvement in the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk.