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US president to speak in Warsaw on same day Russian leader to give speech; Zelenskiy urges west to ‘hurry up’ with Ukraine support at Munich conferenceWhat we know on day 360 of the invasionPresident Joe Biden will be “messaging” his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, when he speaks in Warsaw on Tuesday, the US says, while hailing Nato’s unprecedented effort to help Ukraine.Agence France-Presse reports that Biden is to give the speech in Poland – a key US ally and – on the same day Putin is set to give his own speech in Moscow, three days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s 24 invasion.President Biden will make it clear that the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine ... for as long as it takes.… And I would suspect that you’ll hear him messaging Mr Putin as well, as well as the Russian people.We need to hurry up. We need speed – speed of our agreements, speed of our delivery … speed of decisions to limit Russian potential.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, urged allies to intensify their military support for Ukraine to help it carry out a needed counter-offensive against Russia. There could be no peace in Ukraine until Russia was defeated, Macron said at the Munich conference, adding that Russia was doomed to “a defeat in the future”.Zelenskiy warned a possible consequence of delaying western weapons to Ukraine could be a Russian invasion of Moldova. He said neighbouring Belarus would make a mistake of historic proportions if it joined in the Russian offensive and claimed polls showed 80% of its people did not wish to join.The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, gave Zelenskiy an indirect rebuff, saying caution was better than hasty decisions and unity was better than going it alone. Scholz said Germany was the biggest supplier of weapons in continental Europe, and that the region was in uncharted territory and there was no blueprint for confronting a nuclear-armed aggressor, making it vital to avoid an unintended escalation. Continue reading...