Biden delivers first formal State of the Union address vows to support Ukraine calls out Putin

President Biden delivers his first formal State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, opening with a forceful statement of support for Ukraine's resistance to Russia's week-old invasion. Biden calls out Russian President Vladimir Putin directly, saying that his war "premeditated and unprovoked" and that Putin "miscalculated" Western unity. Biden announces the US will close its airspace to Russian aircraft and commits to hold the line with NATO allies. On the domestic front, he declares that "inflation is our top priority" and announces the creation of ARPA-H, a new health research agency modeled on DARPA, to accelerate treatments for cancer and other diseases. Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova attends as a guest in the First Lady's box.