President Biden has accused Putin of being a war criminal. US President Joe Biden, who visited the Ukraine-Polish border, compared the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 25th (local time) to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident in China.
President Biden, who visited Europe for the first time since the outbreak of the Ukrainian War, said this at a meeting with the US 82nd Airborne Unit, which was dispatched to the Polish city of Zeszw, 80 km from the Ukrainian border, and officials from a relief organization helping refugees. President Biden praised the Ukrainians for their bravery and persistence in fighting once morest Russia, comparing them to a 30-year-old woman standing in front of a tank with a rifle.
“If we talk regarding what happened in Tiananmen Square, it is the square of the events that happened in that square,” he said. On June 4, 1989, Chinese authorities bloody and murdered thousands of students, workers, and citizens during a demonstration for pro-democracy in Tiananmen Square in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “to be honest, a war criminal” and “legally would fit this definition.” “You’re in the middle of a war between democracy and dictatorship,” he told US soldiers. “What you’re doing is really important.”
After attending the NATO, G7, and European Union (EU) summits in Brussels the day before, President Biden discussed Russia’s response and landed in Zesup near the Ukrainian border on the same day.
On this day, Polish President Andrzej Duda did not arrive on time due to more than one aircraft. As a result, the Polish welcome ceremony for President Biden was also canceled. President Duda expressed his regret that he might not meet President Biden directly. President Biden will then leave for Warsaw to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on the 26th and visit the Ukrainian refugee camp.
Poland, a member of the EU and NATO ally, received 2.24 million Ukrainian refugees following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of last month, and provided financial and military support to Ukraine. There are 10,500 US troops in Poland.