Live: Putin makes state of the nation address to parliament year after Ukraine war started

Watch live as Vladimir Putin gives his state of the nation due to make a speech on Tuesday, 21 February, to Russia’s parliament.

The address, which is setting out aims for the second year of his invasion of Ukraine, came three days before the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the war.

It comes a day after Joe Biden made a surprise trip to Kyiv in which he promised to stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.

There was no official Russian response to the US president’s visit, but state television ran headlines describing how Volodymyr Zelensky was “paid a visit by ‘his master”, perpetuating false Kremlin propaganda that Ukraine is controlled by the West.

In his address, Putin will speak to members of both houses of the Russian parliament in Moscow.

He will seek to reassure Russia’s political and military elites on the Ukraine conflict and share his analysis of the international situation.

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