Vladimir Putin has already lost Ukraine, U.S. President Biden told the U.S. nonprofit broadcasting service PBS's NewsHour program.

“There’s no way that Putin is going to be able to — he’s already lost Ukraine,” Biden said. “He thought that if he invaded Ukraine, first of all, he’d get a welcome by every Russian speaker, they’d say, ‘Come on in.’ Secondly, he thought what would happen is that NATO would collapse, NATO would not to do anything, they’d be afraid to act.”

“Go down the line, none of that’s happening,” he said in a PBS NewsHour interview the day after he delivered the State of the Union address.