The Kremlin announced this to President Biden on Monday
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters “this is a statement that is certainly alarming,” and said Moscow will “follow the US president’s statements,” Reuters reported.
At the conclusion of a speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, Biden said, “For God’s sake, this man can’t stay in power,” which was widely interpreted to mean that Putin should be removed from his position at the helm of Russia’s government.
However, the White House tried to retract the comment, claiming Biden was referring to Putin wielding power outside Russia, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated that the US has no policy on regime change in Moscow.
“The president wanted to say that Putin must not exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He has not discussed Putin’s power in Russia or regime change,” a White House official said in a statement.
Peskov told the Newswire Sunday that it was “not for Biden to decide” whether Putin should remain in power, adding, “The Russian president is elected by the Russians.” The Russian leader has been in power for the past two decades Elected to serve four terms as President and has been President of Russia since 2012.
“This speech – and the passages concerning Russia – is amazing, to use polite words,” Peskov added. “He doesn’t understand that the world isn’t limited to the United States and most of Europe.”
The ad libbed remark came at the end of a 27-minute speech in Warsaw near the end of Biden’s trip to Europe, which focused on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Last week Russia said it had called the US ambassador to a meeting in Moscow to hand him a “note of protest” against Biden calling Putin a war criminal.
The harsh statement from Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned that Moscow-US ties could be completely severed over Biden’s comments and moves by the US administration to punish Russia for its invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
“It is emphasized that such statements by the American President, unworthy of a statesman of such high rank, are bringing Russian-US relations to the brink of collapse,” the statement said.