Vladimir Putin is “a butcher,” President Biden mentioned Saturday, after he made an emotional journey to go to Ukrainian refugees at Warsaw’s PGE Narodowy Stadium.
“He’s a butcher,” Biden advised a reporter who requested what he considered Putin after talking with just some of the three.7 million Ukrainians who've fled the Russian invasion.
“Properly, you’re all courageous, courageous, courageous,” he advised evacuees throughout his 30-minute go to.
The president wore a black face masks and a darkish blue baseball cap bearing the emblem of the Beau Biden Basis — however steadily lowered the face overlaying as he talked.
“I really like ya, I really like ya,” he advised a Polish lady who was volunteering with World Central Kitchen, a charity group organized by celeb chef José Andrés to feed the 1000's of evacuees taking short-term shelter within the stadium.
“Your father or your mom, who had the eyes?” he requested the girl as he pulled her shut for a hug.
Later, Biden spoke with members of a household from Mariupol, the port metropolis that has been below relentless assault by Russian forces.
He hoisted a younger lady in his arms and gave her a fast smooch — “I don’t converse Ukrainian, however inform her I wish to take her house,” he advised a translator with fun — and talked to a tearful lady who mentioned she had misplaced observe of her husband and son as they fought to defend their metropolis with the Ukrainian forces.
“My son was at conflict for a yr,” Biden mentioned in commiseration. “I do know each second you say a silent prayer, please God.”
Talking by means of a translator, the girl advised Biden of her fury at Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching the invasion.
“Ukrainian moms are able to strangle him with our naked palms,” she mentioned.
The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, accompanied Biden in the course of the tour.
Biden’s go to got here two days after the White Home introduced plans to welcome as much as 100,000 Ukrainians to america — and to ship a further $1 billion of humanitarian assist to Poland and different European nations which are struggling to handle the biggest refugee disaster since World Warfare II.
At the least 2 million folks, largely girls, youngsters, and the aged, have sought shelter in Poland as Russian forces proceed to shell their house cities and cities.
Biden is on a three-day diplomatic mission to Europe that has included stops permitting him to “see firsthand the humanitarian disaster,” he mentioned Friday.
“Fairly frankly, a part of my disappointment is that I can’t see it firsthand like I've elsewhere,” Biden mentioned throughout a briefing in Rzeszow, in southeastern Poland.
“They won't let me, understandably, I suppose, cross the border and try what’s happening in Ukraine,” the commander-in-chief mentioned.
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