U.S. President Joe Biden called Russia’s Vladimir Putin a “butcher” as he comforted refugees in Poland Saturday.
“He’s a butcher,” Bloomberg reported Biden as saying when asked about the Russian president’s actions.
Earlier he assured Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, that the United States’ vow to defend NATO nations is a “sacred commitment,” Bloomberg reported.
Air raid sirens were sounding Saturday afternoon in Lviv, Ukraine, about 43 miles east of the country’s border with Poland. The region’s governor, Maxym Kozytsky, said there were “three powerful explosions near Lviv,” the Associated Press reported. Footage shot by the news organization saw thick plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
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