French president warns against verbal escalations after US denies president’s comments suggested strategy of regime change
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has warned against using inflammatory language to describe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin was a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power”.
Biden’s remarks, made during a speech in Poland on Saturday, were taken by many as a call for regime change in Moscow. His words were swiftly walked back by both the White House and the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who insisted the US did not have “a strategy of regime change in Russia – or anywhere else”.
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Source: The Guardian