US President Joe Biden has been criticized for his comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a visit to Poland on the Ukrainian border last Saturday, Biden called the Russian president a “butcher.” He also said that Putin should not be allowed to stay in power.
Moscow has strongly protested the US president’s remarks. A close ally of the United States has criticized French President Emmanuel Macho. Criticism has even come from within the United States.
Joe Biden toured the Ukrainian refugee camp in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, on Saturday. “For God’s sake, this man can no longer be in power,”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . he told a rally following the Russian president. In response, the Kremlin said in a statement that Biden would not rule out the possibility that Putin would remain in power. Putin has been elected president by the Russian people.
The White House said in a statement that Biden did not call for a change of government in Russia. He says Putin should not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.
Richard Haas, a veteran US diplomat, was not satisfied with the White House’s explanation. Richard Hass, president of the New York-based think tank Council on Foreign Relations, said in a tweet yesterday that Biden’s remarks made a difficult situation more difficult and a more dangerous one. He advised top advisers to the US president to approach Russian officials. The former director of the State Department’s policy planning department said US officials should make it clear they are ready to work with the current Russian government.
French President Emmanuel Macho has warned against the US president’s remarks. Yesterday, he said, offensive speech could hamper the process of ending the war.
Makho told the French media that the main goal was to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine and withdraw Russian troops from there. But it will not be possible to increase the tension through words or deeds.
Emanuel Makhon has been in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis. He also said he would talk to Putin in the next two to three days to try to evacuate civilians from the port city of Mariupol, which had been badly damaged by Russian troops.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has also been forced to comment on the president’s remarks following a backlash from allies. “I think the president and the White House are making it clear last night that President Putin cannot be empowered to fight or to invade Ukraine or anywhere else,” Blinken said during a visit to Israel. He says the United States has no plans to change power in Russia or elsewhere. In this case, as in all other countries, the issue will depend on the people of Russia.
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Monday that sanctions against Russia’s elites, banks and businesses would be lifted if Russian President Vladimir Putin ended his campaign in Ukraine and vowed not to invade again.
Yesterday was the 32nd day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says Russian forces have continued to target the capital, Kiev. They are firing on the outskirts of the capital. Ukrainian troops are resisting them. Russian forces are also attacking military and civilian installations in the southeastern city of Mariupol. Earlier in the day, rockets were fired at the western city of Lviv.
According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian warplanes are firing missiles from their airspace to prevent them from falling under Ukraine’s air defenses.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West to provide warplanes, tanks and missiles to protect it from Russian attacks. He said in a video message late Saturday night that Russian warplanes could not be shot down with machine guns. Expressing frustration, he said, ‘What is NATO doing? Are they being run by Russia? What are they waiting for? Today is the 31st day. We want only 1 percent of what NATO has, nothing more. “
