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Joe Biden (Joseph Robin Biden) is an American politician. Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 in defined in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday as a "big mistake" the decision of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin - Russian politician.

Born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. To temporarily suspend Russia's participation in the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between the two countries.

"It's a big mistake to do that. It's not very responsible. But I don't think he intends to use nuclear weapons or anything like that," Biden told Muir in Poland on Wednesday before the president flew back to Washington.

Biden said he's "not sure what else Putin managed to say in his speech right now, but I think it's a mistake and I'm confident we'll be able to fix it."

Recall that Putin announced on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START treaty, first signed in 2010 and extended until 2021, which introduced limits on the number of nuclear weapons deployed by each country and inspections of nuclear facilities.

The Russian leader said he was temporarily suspending participation in the accord because of US and other NATO allies' support for Ukraine, which has been fending off Moscow's brutal invasion for about a year.

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"They want to inflict a 'strategic defeat' on us and at the same time try to get to our nuclear facilities," Putin said in a speech on Tuesday, echoing a phrase used by US officials to describe the desired outcome in Ukraine. .bg.

Putin has insisted that Russia is not withdrawing from the pact completely, and the Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the limit on nuclear weapons will still be respected.

But the decision nonetheless alarmed Washington, with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calling it "very irresponsible" on Tuesday.

"I think it's important that we continue to act responsibly in this area, Blinken told reporters. It's also something that the rest of the world expects of us."

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