Biden warns of ‘long fight ahead’

INA - SOURCES 

US president Joe Biden warned transatlantic democracies to steel themselves for a “long fight ahead” and remain united to stop Russia and its president Vladimir Putin from turning Europe back to its war-torn past.

In a speech in Warsaw, just over a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden compared the struggle against Moscow’s aggression to the resistance against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

“We must commit now to be in this fight for the long haul. We must remain unified today and tomorrow, and the day after, and for the years and decades to come. It will not be easy,” he said.

“There will be cost but it’s a price we have to pay, because the darkness that drives autocracy is no match for the flame of liberty that lights the souls of free people everywhere,” Biden added.