Biden warns Russia’s Vladimir Putin against Ukraine invasion

By AAMER MADHANI, NOMAAN MERCHANT and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pledging to make it “very, very difficult” for Russian leader Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine. Biden says his administration is putting together a set of initiatives to curb Russian aggression. The president offered the measured warning to Putin amid growing concern about a Russian buildup of troops on the Ukrainian border and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from the Kremlin. Biden told reporters he is putting together “the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do.”