“He’s a butcher,” Biden told a reporter who asked what he thought of Putin after speaking with just a few of the 3.7 million Ukrainians who have fled the Russian invasion.
The president wore a black face mask and a dark blue baseball cap bearing the logo of the Beau Biden Foundation — but frequently lowered the face covering as he talked.
He hoisted a young girl in his arms and gave her a quick smooch — “I don’t speak Ukrainian, but tell her I want to take her home,” he told a translator with a laugh — and talked to a tearful woman who said she had lost track of her husband and son as they fought to defend their city with the Ukrainian forces.
Speaking through a translator, the woman told Biden of her fury at Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching the invasion. At least 2 million people, mostly women, children, and the elderly, have sought shelter in Poland as Russian forces continue to shell their home towns and cities.
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