WASHINGTON — President Biden warned Russia on Friday that the United States and its allies would not be intimidated by its latest actions in Ukraine and that the world would not recognize the sham referendum that President Vladimir V. Putin staged to justify seizing Ukrainian land.
Mr. Biden said at a news conference at the White House that the United States and its allies would continue to support Ukraine with military equipment and aid. He warned that anyone who supported Russia's fraudulent claims to Ukrainian territory would also be subject to economic sanctions.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Putin announced in a bellicose speech that Russia would annex four Ukrainian provinces it had invaded. The Russian leader has cast the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the United States and its allies. He accused America of Satanism and tried to impose its culture on the rest of the world.
Biden said he is not going to scare us or intimidate us. He can't get away from his neighbor's land.