Joe Biden continues to take no gloves when talking about his Russian counterpart.

The American president violently attacked Vladimir Putin on Saturday in Warsaw, judging that he could "not stay in power" after his invasion of Ukraine.

This statement, however, was immediately tempered by the White House.

Coming to show his support for Poland, a country on the eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance and bordering Ukraine, Joe Biden described the war in this country as a "strategic failure for Russia", and warned the authorities of Moscow, enjoining them to "not even [think] of advancing one centimeter into NATO territory".

For Biden, Putin is a “butcher”

Before his charge against the master of the Kremlin at the start of the evening, the American president had called Vladimir Putin a “butcher” for the crimes committed according to him by the Russian army in Ukraine.

Calling on Joe Biden to remain "thoughtful" in these remarks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacted to this first attack by judging that "every time, personal insults of this kind reduce the field of possibilities for our bilateral relations with the current US government.

But the host of the White House drove the point home during a speech in front of a thousand people at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, directly challenging the “Russian people”.

Assuring that he did not consider him an "enemy", but judging that the war in Ukraine, with its atrocities, was not "worthy" of him, Joe Biden added: "This man [Putin] cannot stay in power ".

"What the President meant was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region", the White House had to qualify: "He was not talking about Putin's power in Russia , nor a change of regime”.

Joe Biden also expressed doubts about Russia's intentions in Ukraine.

The Russian command has indeed created the surprise by announcing on Friday "to concentrate the bulk of the efforts on the main objective: the liberation" of the Donbass mining basin, contrasting with the will displayed by Moscow until then to "demilitarize and denazify the Ukraine” as a whole and not only in this eastern region where there are two pro-Russian separatist “republics”.

“I am not sure” that the intentions of the Russians have changed, judged Joe Biden in the Polish capital.

In Warsaw, the American president also met the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kouleba and the Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov, during a meeting in which their American counterparts Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin also took part.

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