Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to President Biden’s recent comments calling the Russian a “killer” saying that it must “take one to know one” according to a translation by Bloomberg. The comments come after declassified reports revealed Russia attempted to meddle in the 2020 presidential election and Biden responded that Russia will “pay” if the reports are confirmed as accurate.
In addition to Putin’s response to Biden calling him a killer, (“whoever calls someone those names, is describing themselves.”),
In this video, he says “As (Biden) mentioned, we do know each other personally. What can I tell him? I wish him good health. That’s without irony.” https://t.co/xkRpu4MElU
— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) March 18, 2021
The Daily Wire reports:
“He will pay a price,” Biden told ABC. “We had a long talk, he and I, and relatively well. And the conversation started — ‘I know you and you know me. If I establish this occurred, be prepared.’”
Stephanopoulos also asked Biden if he thought that Putin was a “killer,” to which Biden responded, “I do.”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria V. Zakharova slammed Biden’s comment on Thursday and announced the withdrawal of U.S. envoy Anatoly I. Antonov back to Moscow “in order to analyze what needs to be done in the context of relations with the United States,” according to The New York Times. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Biden’s comments on Putin, “There hasn’t been anything like this in history,” according to CNN.
Konstantin I. Kosachev, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s upper house of Parliament, demanded that Biden apologize for calling Putin a “killer” in a Facebook post on Thursday.
Russian officials warned there will be retaliation if Biden does not apologize for the comment however they did not specify what those measures would be.
