Russia’s War on Ukraine
The president has delivered sanctions and aid and a united West. Still, a possible resolution to the confrontation remained hard to define after a three day trip to Europe.
President Joe Biden arrives to speak about the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on Saturday. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
By Jonathan Lemire
03/27/2022 08:28 AM EDT
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President Joe Biden’s trip to a war-rattled Europe rallied allies and delivered a threatening, if unscripted, message to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. But he returned home with few, if any, concrete answers as to how the brutal invasion of Ukraine actually would end.
Biden closed the trip with an up-close look at the ravages of war, a stop in Poland that followed a trio of extraordinary diplomatic summits in which the West unveiled more sanctions on Russia and pledged more support for the resistance fighters in Ukraine. But as Russian shells continued to bombard Ukrainian cities, the united front the president projected gave way to a more sobering reality. The fundamentals of the war had not changed. The conflict will likely only end when Putin decides it does.