Russia-Ukraine war: Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’

WASHINGTON, 28 March 2022, (TON): Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a butcher who cannot remain in power during a visit to Poland, where he met Ukrainian refugees displaced by the fighting in their country.

A White House official said later “Biden’s comments on Saturday marked an escalation of US rhetoric towards Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, but were not a call for regime change in Russia.”

Biden was in Poland on the last leg of a four-day trip to Europe and in addition to meeting refugees and Ukrainian officials, he delivered a fiery speech before Warsaw’s iconic Royal Castle, where he pointedly warned Putin against invading even an inch of a NATO nation’s territory.

Concluding the speech, he said “Ukraine would never be a victory for Russia.”

He added “for God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

The Kremlin dismissed the remarks, saying the US had no authority in the matter.

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