Warsaw: US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a ‘butcher’ on Saturday, while meeting fleeing Ukrainian refugees in Poland’s capital Warsaw. According to reports, when Biden was asked what he thought of Putin, the US President said, ‘He’s a butcher’.
Earlier in the day, Biden held a surprise meeting with top Ukrainian officials in Poland, where he and his team discussed how they could further aid the war-torn country. He met with Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba and defence minister Oleksii Reznikov and their US counterparts- secretary of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin. A White House statement said that he dropped in about an hour after it began and remained for about 40 minutes.
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More than 10 million people in Ukraine have been displaced since Russia began its military offensive in the east European nation over a month ago. More than 3.4 million have fled the country, including more than two million who have arrived in Poland.
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