RUSSIA has demanded that a “sick” Joe Biden undergo a psychiatric examination after declaring that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”

The White House has frantically retracted its statement, insisting that the President did not call for regime change in his speech in Poland.

Biden had previously warned that the West would intervene if Putin moved on to “even a single inch of Nato territory.”

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said, condemning Putin’s slaughter of civilians.

As a result, the Kremlin has dispatched its loyal attack dogs to condemn Biden.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the Russian parliament’s speaker, called Biden a “weak and sick man” who is prone to “hysteria.”

The behaviour of the US president may be “professionally explained by psychiatrists,” but “from a male point of view, the weak behave this way.”

“US citizens should be ashamed of their president,” he added. Perhaps he’s ill. It would be appropriate for Biden to have a medical examination.”

“We don’t know what President Biden meant, we know what he said,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

“And what he said in his speech in general suggests that he is a victim of a number of delusions.”

Leonid Slutsky, a senior pro-Putin MP, claimed that “Biden has completely crossed all boundaries of decency.”

State television chastised Biden for his numerous “slips of the tongue and mistakes,” such as referring to the blitzed city of Mariupol as Metropol and addressing the Polish president as “ambassador.”

According to NTV correspondent Lisa Gerson, Biden has no right to say Putin “cannot remain in power” because 76% of voters supported the Russian leader four years ago.

The 2018 election was dominated by allegations of vote rigging, the exclusion of opposition candidates, and any anti-Putin parties’ lack of access to the media.

During his speech, Biden also stated that the world must brace itself for a “long fight ahead,” and that the battle “will not be won in days or months.”

“Brutality will never crush the will to be free,” he added. Ukraine will never be a Russian victory.”

“Never, ever give up hope, never doubt, never tyre, never become discouraged,” he said, quoting Pope John Paul II. “Do not be afraid.”

Mr. Biden also sent a direct message to the Russian people, stating that they are “not the enemy.”

It comes less than 24 hours after Putin vowed to focus his army on the east, when Russian missiles injured at least five people in Kiev, Ukraine’s largest western city.