Biden answered the question of whether he continues to consider Putin a murderer

Biden, answering the question, paused several times, starting the thought anew. “In the past, he has essentially admitted that he had certain things that he could have done or did,” the US president said. Biden answered the question whether he continues to consider Putin a murderer

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US President Joe Biden at a press conference in Brussels following the NATO summit answered the question whether he continues to consider his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a murderer.

Reporters told Biden that Putin, during a recent interview with NBC, laughed after being told that the US president had called him a murderer. After that, Biden was asked if he continues to consider Putin a murderer. “I laugh too,” the American president replied.

Then Biden did not immediately find the words and broke off several times, starting the thought again. “They actually, I… well, look, I mean, he made it clear that…»

“I believe that in the past, he essentially admitted that he had certain things that he could have done or had done. But, look, when I was asked this question on the air, I answered honestly, ” Biden concluded.

At the same time, he noted that this situation does not matter much from the point of view of the meeting with Putin, which is due to take place on June 16 in Switzerland.

An ABC News reporter asked Biden if he thought Putin was a murderer during an interview the American president gave on March 17. The interviewer said: “So you know Vladimir Putin. Do you think he’s the killer?”Mmm, yes,” Biden replied.

The next day, Putin commented on Biden’s statement. “As for my American colleague’s statement, we are indeed, as he said, personally acquainted. So that I can answer him? I said to him, ” Be well!” I wish him good health, “Putin said, and clarified that he was saying this” without irony and without jokes.”

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The Russian president also recalled the disputes and conflicts that took place in his childhood in the courtyard. “We used to say,’ Whoever calls himself that, calls himself that.’ And this is not accidental, this is not just a joke, the psychological meaning in this is very deep, ” Putin added.

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Biden’s statement, called it “very bad”. “He definitely does not want to establish relations with our country, we will continue to proceed from this,” the Kremlin representative said.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that such statements offend the citizens of Russia, and called Biden’s words “hysteria from impotence”. First Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Andrey Turchak considered Biden’s statement a triumph of the US political insanity and age-related dementia of their leader.

In turn, White House press secretary Jen Psaki then said that Biden does not regret his words about Putin. “The president gave a direct answer to a direct question,” she said.

The head of the State Department, Anthony Blinken, in an interview with The Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, answering the question of how the American leader can simultaneously call Putin a murderer and work with him, said that Biden is guided by a pragmatic approach in relations with Russia. According to Blinken, Biden ” understands two things very well.”;: he needs to hold Russia accountable for any reckless and hostile actions it takes, and at the same time be open to cooperation in the common interests of the two countries.

Источник rbc.ru

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