Reside updates: Russia invades Ukraine

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 suppose as he offers with Putin daily, Biden responded, “he is a butcher.”

Through the temporary question-and-answer session at Stadion Narodowy, Biden recounted how he had been to locations like this in his life, however stated he’s all the time stunned by “the depth and power of the human spirit.” 

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

He added: “Every a kind of kids stated 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’ve got somebody in a conflict zone. Each morning you rise up and also you surprise. You simply surprise. And also you pray you aren’t getting 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 keeping with Russian state information company TASS. 

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

“After all, each time these private insults slim the window of alternative for our bilateral relations underneath the present [US] administration. One has to pay attention to this,” Peskov stated, in keeping with TASS.

-CNN’s Chandler Thornton contributed reporting to this put up.