US President Joe Biden says that Russia's Vladimir Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine, expressing hope at a press conference in Helsinki that Kyiv's counter-offensive would force Moscow to the negotiating table. Despite Russia launching fresh strikes and a new bout of nuclear-sabre rattling, Biden says there was no real prospect of Putin using nuclear weapons and insisted the war would not drag on for years. Biden also uses a visit to Finland, NATO's newest member, to pledge that Ukraine would one day join the alliance, despite NATO leaders failing to give Kyiv a timeline at a key summit this week. SOUNDBITES