President Joe Biden claimed in an Oct. 20 speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin is using drones and ammunition from Iran and North Korea.
- Biden's speech called out Vladimir Putin by name, but he did not directly address the Russian president's announcement earlier Tuesday that Moscow was suspending participation in New START, a key nuclear arms control treaty and the last such agreement between the two countries. [...] "They’ve targeted civilians with death and destruction, used rape as a weapon of war, stolen Ukrainian children in an attempt to steal Ukraine’s future. Bombed train stations, maternity hospitals, schools and orphanages," Biden said. "No one could turn away their eyes from the atrocities Russia is committing against the Ukrainian people. It’s abhorrent." [...] Biden places the blame squarely on the shoulders of Putin in his speech. It’s a marked contrast to Donald Trump, who has essentially blamed Biden for being weak against the Russian leader. In a speech on Monday, Trump said, "Putin never, ever would have gone into Ukraine if I were president," Trump told supporters at a Florida rally, saying he "actually had a very good relationship" with Putin.