US President Joe Biden has said in the Polish capital, Warsaw, that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not stay in power and called the war in Ukraine a strategic failure for Moscow.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was not up to Biden to decide whether the Russian president had been appointed by the Russians.
US President Joe Biden, who is on a trip to Europe, met with Ukraine’s foreign and defense ministers in Poland on Saturday.
In another part of his speech in Warsaw, US President Joe Biden told the Russian people that he had been working with Russian leaders for decades since the end of the Cold War.
He said, “I have always spoken to you face to face and honestly with the Russian people. Let me tell you if you listen. You Russians are not our enemies. I do not believe that you are the enemy of innocent children, grandparents.” You do not agree with the killing, you do not agree with the bombing of hospitals, schools and maternity clinics, or you block the supply of besieged cities that are being used to extradite Ukrainians. ”
He added: “Millions of families, including Ukrainian children, have been evicted from their homes. This is not the work of a great nation.”
The White House said in a statement to the Kremlin that Biden had said that Russia’s president could not use his power to determine the fate of countries in the region.
Mr Biden called his Russian counterpart a “butcher” in front of Ukrainian journalists and asylum seekers, to which the Kremlin responded by saying such words “worsen the way to restore relations between the two countries”.
“For God’s sake, this man can’t stay in power,” Biden told Putin at the end of his speech.
“Ukraine and its people are fighting to save their country. We must be honest. This war cannot be won in days or months. We must be ready for a long struggle,” Biden said.
