Ukraine news latest — Putin claims West ‘escalating war’ by sending new weapons & warns Russia is ‘impossible to defeat’

VLADIMIR Putin has vowed to “systematically” press on with Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, as he gave his state of the nation address. The Russian president began his state of the nation address today ahead of the first anniversary of Moscow’s war in Ukraine – and promised the Kremlin would not cave in. “Step by step, we will carefully and systematically solve the aims that face us,” Putin said ahead of the first anniversary of the military intervention. He said of Kyiv: “They started the war and we used force to stop it.” He also blamed the West for the escalation of the conflict, after Kyiv’s allies promised to send new weapons to Ukraine, saying: “The responsibility for fuelling the Ukrainian conflict, for its escalation, for the number of victims… lies completely with Western elites” Read our Ukraine war blog below for the latest news…