<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">President Joe Biden has warned Russia that the United States will not be intimidated by reckless threats after Vladimir Putin declared the annexation of four occupied regions of Ukraine.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Biden condemned his Russian counterpart's "reckless words and threats", but added that Putin was "not going to scare us".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"America and its allies are not going to be intimidated," Biden said at the White House.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He then addressed the Russian leader directly, pointing his finger into the camera, and said that "America's fully prepared, with our Nato allies, to defend every single inch of Nato territory".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mr Putin, don't misunderstand what I'm saying: every inch."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shortly after, Biden's top national security official said there was a chance of Moscow resorting to nuclear weapons, but there did not appear to be an imminent threat. Source: BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>