US President Joe Biden castigated Vladimir Putin over the month-old war in Ukraine, bluntly calling the Russian leader 'a butcher' who 'cannot remain in power'.
WARSAW - US President Joe Biden on Saturday castigated Vladimir Putin over the month-old war in Ukraine, bluntly calling the Russian leader "a butcher" who "cannot remain in power".
Biden coupled his harsh words for Putin with a pointed attempt to appeal to ordinary Russians, saying they were "not our enemy" and urging them to blame their president for the heavy sanctions imposed by the West. Two Russian missiles earlier struck a fuel depot in western Ukraine's Lviv, a rare attack on a city just 70 kilometres from the Polish border that has escaped serious fighting.
Both ministers had made a rare trip out of Ukraine for the face-to-face talks, in a potential sign of growing confidence in their battle against Russian forces. "We need more ammunition. We need it to protect not only Ukraine but other Eastern European countries that Russia threatened to invade," he said."What is Nato is doing? Is it being run by Russia? What are they waiting for? It's been 31 days. We are only asking for one percent of what Nato has, nothing more."
A humanitarian convoy leaving the devastated southern port of Mariupol, including ambulances carrying wounded children, arrived in Zaporizhzhia after being held up at Russian checkpoints for two days, a Ukrainian official said. "If a bomb drops, we're going to die anyway," she said. "We are getting a little used to explosions."
"Enemy sabotage groups in Kyiv region are still attempting to penetrate the capital," the Ukrainian General Staff said.
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