EU Meeting Ukraine: 'You're playing a game with me': Biden says sanctions were NEVER meant to deter 'brute' Putin, will last a year, and promises US will respond 'in kind' if he uses chemical weapons in tense exchange in Brussels

President Joe Biden said new sanctions on Russia were about 'increasing the pain' on Russian President Vladimir Putin – whom he termed a 'brute' during a tense exchange with a reporter at a press conference in Brussels Thursday.

He also said that new sanctions on Russia, which have been increasing by the day, are here to stay, but insisted they were never meant to 'deter' Putin.

'The single most important thing is for us to stay unified,' Biden said when asked by a reporter who said the threat of sanctions had failed to deter Putin from invading Ukraine

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