“Yes,” TASS cites Biden’s answer to the corresponding question.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during the collegium of the military department announced the intention of the West to provoke Kyiv "to fight to the last Ukrainian."
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said that the Russian Armed Forces are offering Ukrainian nationalists and mercenaries at Azovstal to lay down their arms from 12:00 Moscow time on April 19.