Biden called Putin a dictator – Vedomosti

US President Joe Biden again called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a dictator, transmits Reuters.

​​”I will not take sides with dictators like Putin. May be, [экс-президента США Дональд] Trump and his friends from MAGA (the slogan is Make America Great Again. – Vedomosti) and can bow [перед ним]but I won’t,” Biden said at a campaign fundraiser in New York.

September 17, former US President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC statedthat he “got along well” with Putin. “First of all, and this is the most important thing, Putin respects me very much,” the American politician said. Trump again noted that the conflict in Ukraine “would never have happened” if he had been president of the United States.

Biden has previously spoken harshly against Putin on several occasions. In March 2022, visiting a Ukrainian refugee camp on the border of Poland and Ukraine, he named the Russian president is a “butcher”. In the Kremlin statedthat “a state leader must remain sober,” and noted that such statements “narrow the window” for Russian-American relations.

In March 2021, Biden, in an interview with ABC News, answered affirmatively when asked whether he considered Putin a killer. In response, the Russian leader wished Biden health and noted that when assessing another, a person always proceeds from his own qualities. “You know, I remember when we were kids in the yard, when we were arguing with each other, we said this: whoever calls you names is called that,” said Putin.