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US president Joe Biden was in Poland on Saturday, where he called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power”. The White House later walked back the comments, saying Biden had been talking about the need for Putin to lose power over Ukrainian territory and in the wider region.
The historic speech came as Russian forces fired missiles at Lviv, just over the border from Poland, an act clearly designed to send a message to the US.
I wish at least a percentage of their courage to those who have been thinking for 31 days how to transfer a dozen or two of planes or tanks …
Ukraine cannot shoot down Russian missiles using shotguns, machine guns, which are too much in supplies.
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