LYMAN, Ukraine: Biden said Putin miscalculated the invasion of Ukraine and is not likely to use nuclear weapons. In eastern Donetsk regions, forensics workers exhumed bodies from another mass grave.
US President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's calculations were wrong in the invasion of Ukraine. Joe Biden said that Putin, a normally rational thinker, "misunderstood the potential in Ukraine."
Biden also stated that he does not think that Russia will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Biden's remarks in an interview with CNN. The US President also stated that he has not decided to meet with Putin at the G-20 summit.
A European diplomat said NATO was considering convening a virtual summit of the alliance to consider its response to Russia's nuclear threats, the annexation of Ukrainian territory and the mobilization of troops.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the G-7 countries to impose strong sanctions against Russia, including in Kiev. Zielensky also called for more aid to counter Russian missile attacks.
Ukraine wants to strengthen the monitoring system on the border with Belarus. Cain makes it clear that a Russian attack can only be countered if aid is provided quickly.
Yesterday, the G-7 states stated that they will protect Ukraine in the wake of Russia's missile attack and series of explosions in Kiev. After the meeting, the G-7 representatives said that they will continue to provide assistance to Ukraine and are ready to protect it for as long as possible.
But Russia insists that the attack on Kyiv was in response to the destruction of the Russia-Crimea bridge. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that he would not reject the US's request to meet with Putin at the G-20 summit.
Another Mass grave discovered
Forensic workers pulled several bodies wrapped in black plastic from a mass grave Tuesday in Ukraine's devastated city of Lyman, part of an arduous effort to piece together evidence of what happened during more than four months of Russian occupation.
Ten body bags lay beside a roughly 100-foot (30-meter) trench from which authorities said 32 bodies have been exhumed so far in the city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
The bodies were Ukrainian soldiers who had been buried together in a mass grave, the head of the Donetsk region's military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said in Lyman on Tuesday.
Another 22 civilians have been exhumed from individual graves at the burial site, located on the edge of a cemetery in a forested area on the outskirts of Lyman. Further exhumations are planned.