US President Joe Biden has described the war in Ukraine as a war “chosen by one man”.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly, he said Russia had made “irresponsible nuclear threats” and that “a nuclear war cannot be won and can never be fought”.
It comes just hours after Vladimir Putin warned the West that he was not bluffing about the possible use of nuclear weapons.
Biden said that Russia has “tried to wipe a sovereign state off the map,” adding that the war is about “extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple.”
Targeting Russia, Joe Biden said he wants the war to end on “fair terms.”
He added that he opposes the use of “violence and war to conquer nations and expand borders.”
