Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin ‘will not stop’ says Biden as Moscow warns of full-scale war in Europe

Joe Biden has warned Vladimir Putin would not stop at Ukraine as the US president asked Congress to “stand up” to Russia’s aggression.

“If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not,” Mr Biden said in his State of the Union address.

The US president’s statement comes a day after a senior Russian officer warned of a full-scale war in Europe, as Sweden finally joined Nato.

Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, head of the Russian army’s military academy of the general staff, made the comments in an article for Military Thought, a defence ministry publication, the state RIA news agency reported on Thursday.

“The possibility of an escalation of theconflict in Ukraine – from the expansion of participants in ‘proxy forces’ used for military confrontation with Russia to a large-scale war in Europe – cannot be ruled out,” RIA cited him as saying.

Sweden became the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance this week, ending decades of post-Second World War neutrality, as concerns about Russian aggression in Europe have spiked following its invasion of Ukraine.

Senior Ukrainian officials have pressed Kyiv’s plan to end Russia’s war in a meeting with a Chinese regional envoy, and presented what they said was evidence of North Korean weaponry supplied to Moscow.

Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, said he and his team presented the situation on the battlefield and Kyiv’s peace proposals to Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs.

Mr Yermak said the Ukrainian side “discussed with Li Hui the prospects for establishing a just peace for Ukraine, the restoration of our country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty on the basis of the Ukrainian