Russian forces carried out strike near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, according to regional official

US President Joe Biden referred to as Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher” after visiting with Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday.

Requested by reporters touring with the President what seeing the refugees made him assume as he offers with Putin daily, Biden responded, “he is a butcher.”

Throughout the temporary question-and-answer session at Stadion Narodowy, Biden recounted how he had been to locations like this in his life, however mentioned he’s at all times shocked by “the depth and energy of the human spirit.” 

“It is unbelievable, it is unbelievable. See all these little youngsters. Simply wish to hug, simply wish to say thanks. I imply, it is, simply makes you so rattling proud,” he mentioned.

He added: “Every a type of youngsters mentioned one thing to the impact, ‘Say a prayer for my dad or my grandfather or my brother who’s again there combating.’ And I bear in mind what it is like when you may have somebody in a struggle zone. Each morning you rise up and also you surprise. You simply surprise. And also you pray you do not get that telephone name.”

Kremlin’s response: The Kremlin responded to Biden’s feedback in Warsaw, saying his remarks “slim the window of alternative” to restore US-Russia relations, in response to Russian state information company TASS. 

Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov informed TASS that “the chief of a nation should hold a sober head.”

“In fact, each time these private insults slim the window of alternative for our bilateral relations below the present [US] administration. One has to concentrate on this,” Peskov mentioned, in response to TASS.

-CNN’s Chandler Thornton contributed reporting to this submit.