A senior member of Russia’s parliament said on Thursday that the US should apologize after President Biden said he agreed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a murderer, and the official indicated that the Kremlin could take further action afterwards. to call back your ambassador to the USA.
Reuters reported that Konstantin Kosachyov, the deputy mayor of the parliament, called Biden’s response a watershed in the relationship between the two countries. He said that such a comment “is not allowed from the mouth of a statesman in this category”.
Kosachyov was referring to an interview that Biden gave on ABC News this week, when asked if he believed Putin was a murderer. Biden said, “Yes”.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Anatoly Antonov, the ambassador, was called back to Moscow shortly after the U.S. released an intelligence report linking Putin directly to electoral interference in the 2020 presidential election.
Moscow denied the charges.
Thomas Barrabi of Fox News contributed to this report