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Macron warns against inflammatory words after Biden’s Putin remark

Macron warns against inflammatory words after Biden’s Putin remark


Macron warns against inflammatory words after Biden’s Putin remark

The US has been forced to clarify that it is not seeking regime change in Russia after President Joe Biden's suggestion that Vladimir Putin is a "butcher" who "cannot remain in power" prompted concern and condemnation at home and abroad.

France's president, Emmanuel Macron, warned against the use of inflammatory language in an already volatile situation, while the Kremlin said the "personal insults" further undermined relations between the US and Russia.

Biden's ad-libbed remarks on Putin's leadership, made during a speech in Poland on Saturday, were taken by many as a call for the Russian president to be overthrown.

As Russia launched symbolic missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Lviv, 40 miles from the Polish border, Biden said Putin was "bent on violence", adding there was "simply no justification or provocation for Russia's choice of war" in Ukraine.

He continued: "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power."

The president's comments 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".

Macron said on Sunday that he would not have used Biden's words, adding that he saw his task as "achieving first a ceasefire and then the total withdrawal of [Russian] troops by diplomatic means".

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