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speaking in poland a former eastern bloc country that's no stranger to russian aggression, biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. one, that kyiv would fall within days, and two, that the western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. watch. >> one year ago the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn't just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. ameri...

At least to this point it's been pretty middling and halting and u.s. officials now wonder if russia has the armor and equipment and man power to make another lunge at kyiv, for instance. so they saw putin here backed into a corner using one of the few cards he has left to play in a speech dower and somber in front of bureaucrats as opposed to rally we saw in warsaw. >> anton, you'd written about this this week in "the new york times" that vladimir putin had skipped this speech last year because he lacked good news to share amid russia's setbacks at the front. with the approaching anniversary ...