Here’s what Joe Biden labelled Vladimir Putin

Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” as he announced a new £600 million aid package for Ukraine, which includes armed drones.

After Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, made a desperate plea to the US Congress for assistance in fighting Russia’s invading troops, Trump delivered a stinging rebuke.

“We’re going to provide Ukraine the weaponry to fight and protect itself through all of the difficult days ahead,” Biden said.

“I believe he is a war criminal,” he told reporters, referring to Putin.

The Kremlin retaliated by calling Biden’s remark “unacceptable language.”

Here’s what Biden said:

“We consider such speech of the head of state, whose bombs murdered hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, reprehensible and terrible,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

In a virtual speech to Congress, Zelensky referred to Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 attacks, and Martin Luther King Jr. while showing legislators images of the devastation caused by three weeks of Russian bombardment.

Zelensky urged Washington and NATO partners to enforce a no-fly zone to prevent “Russia from terrorising our free towns.”

He spoke directly to Biden, saying: “I want you to be the world’s leader. Being the world’s leader means being the world’s peacekeeper.”

Biden and Nato have resisted Zelensky’s calls for direct military action against Russia, warning that it could spark World War Three.

However, Biden today revealed his newest package of help to Ukraine, which will be added to the £10.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid previously authorised.

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