Biden: ‘butcher’ Putin cannot be allowed to stay in power
by Daniel Boffey in Lviv, Shaun Walker in Kyiv and Ph from on (#5XHS7)
West must prepare for a long fight ahead, president says, as Russian missiles hit Lviv in act of defiance
Joe Biden condemned Vladimir Putin as a butcher" who could no longer stay in power in a historic speech in Poland as Russian missiles rained down on Ukraine's most pro-western city, just 40 miles from the Polish border, and Ukraine's president called for more military aid.
With explosions erupting across neighbouring Lviv, in a clear act of defiance from the Kremlin, Biden told an audience in Warsaw that the west must steel itself for a long fight ahead".
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