Joe Biden Says Vladimir Putin Cannot Remain In Power, Russia Rejects Remarks
Russia has rejected the US President’s remarks
The United States said it intends to provide Ukraine with an additional $100 million in civilian security assistance, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stockpiles.
US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power” after meeting top Ukrainian ministers for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Within minutes of his comments in Warsaw, a White House official playeded down the remarks, saying Biden “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change”.
While rejecting President Biden’s statement that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power”, Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that this is not to be decided by him, adding that it should only be a choice of the people of the Russian Federation.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin could not remain in power, and his war against Ukraine has been a strategic failure for Moscow, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden told a crowd in Warsaw. Biden also said the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its second month, had united the West, adding that NATO was a defensive alliance which never sought Russia’s demise.
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