BBCNEWS BBC World News July 6, 2024
hello and welcome. days before the anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine, presidents putin and biden have both given defiant speeches. vladimir putin, in his state of the nation address, defended his full—scale invasion, blaming the west for provoking the war. he also announced he's suspending russian participation in the major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. here's our russia editor, steve rosenberg. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? "not russia," he says. translation: responsibility for fuelling...