Biden met with Ukrainian refugees in his first personal encounter with some of the civilians ensnared in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis caused by weeks of indiscriminate Russian shelling of Ukrainian cities and towns. Biden for his support, saying that Poland stood ready as a “serious partner, a credible partner.”Īt a stadium in Warsaw, Mr. While Poland’s right-wing, populist government has been embraced by Washington and Brussels as a linchpin of Western security, it has provoked quarrels with both in the past. “America’s ability to meet its role in other parts of the world rests upon a united Europe,” Mr. Biden stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, and assured him that the United States considered its support for NATO to be a “sacred obligation.” “In that context, I don’t think it will lead to any escalation with Russia.”Įarlier in the day, Mr. “I think just what President Biden was saying is, how can such a terrible person be ruling Russia?” said Mr. But he said he did not read it that way, and that Mr. Putin could no longer remain in power could be perceived “as a call for regime change,” said Michal Baranowski, a senior fellow and director of the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund, a nonpartisan policy organization. “Bad lapse in discipline that runs risk of extending the scope and duration of the war.” “Putin will see it as confirmation of what he’s believed all along,” he wrote. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said on Twitter that the White House’s attempt to walk back the president’s comment was “unlikely to wash.” Biden with President Andrzej Duda of Poland in Warsaw. Putin should be ousted, a political escalation that could have consequences on the battlefield. Biden’s remark was intended to signal he believed Mr.
“The president of Russia is elected by the Russians.”Įxperts were divided on whether Mr. Putin’s fate was not in the hands of the American president.
“He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”ĭmitri S. “The president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official told reporters. The White House immediately sought to play down the remark. But it risks confirming Russia’s central propaganda claim that the West, and particularly the United States, is determined to destroy Russia. Putin was one of the off-the-cuff remarks for which he is known or a calculated jab, one of many in the speech. Biden’s apparent call for the ouster of Mr. Biden called that justification “a lie,” noting that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is Jewish and that his father’s family was killed in the Holocaust. Putin’s claim that the invasion of Ukraine was intended to “de-Nazify” the country. Biden unleashed an angry tirade against Mr. While declaring that “the Russian people are not our enemy,” Mr. Smoke billowing from a building in Lviv after a Russian missile attack on Saturday.
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