President Biden has made a U-turn over his call for regime change in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine by troops ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, IgbereTV reports
The U.S. president was asked by a reporter as he was leaving Holy Trinity Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. on Sunday.
‘Mr President do you want Putin removed?’, the reporter asked. ‘Mr President were you calling for regime change?’ they asked, to which Biden turned to the camera and yelled ‘no!’ before getting into his motorcade.
Less than 24 hours earlier, Biden said: ‘For God’s sake this man cannot remain in power,’ in a shocking apparent call for regime change in Moscow.
Biden made the call at the end of an impassioned speech from Poland on Saturday.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday also warned against an escalation ‘in words and action’, hours after Biden branded Putin a ‘butcher’ who ‘cannot remain in power’.
