In an address from Poland’s Warsaw, Saturday, President Joe Biden said “For god’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
Biden called Putin a “butcher” as he termed the Ukraine war as a “battle for freedom” during a speech in Warsaw. “We stand with you,” he told Ukraine while talking about collective defence within NATO countries.
Just hours after President Joe Biden said President Putin “cannot stay in power”, the White House clarified that the US president was “not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
“The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change,” a White House official said.
“These are not the actions of a great nation,” Biden said, addressing the Russian people during his speech.
“Vladimir Putin’s aggression have cut you, the Russian people, off from the rest of the world, and it’s taking Russia back to the 19th century. This is not who you are,” Biden said.
Biden praised Ukrainian resistance, saying the U.S. stands with the people of Ukraine and will continue to support them.
“A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never erase a people’s love for liberty. Brutality will never grind down their will to be free. Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness,” Biden said.
Biden earlier on Saturday met with Ukrainian refugees and Polish President Andrzej Duda, to whom Biden expressed his commitment to protecting NATO allies as “a sacred obligation.”
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