Joe Biden compares Russia’s Ukraine invasion to ‘Tiananmen Square squared’
- The US president referred to China’s crushing of protests in 1989 as he praised Ukrainians for their backbone, citing a woman standing in front of a tank
- Speaking during a visit to Poland, Biden again referred to Putin as a war criminal, saying ‘I think we’ll meet the legal definition of that’
US President Joe Biden on Friday compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to China’s crushing of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, speaking during a visit to Poland near the border with Ukraine.
Biden also referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who, quite frankly, I think is a war criminal”, adding: “And I think we’ll meet the legal definition of that as well.”
Biden spoke at meetings with US soldiers stationed in Poland close to the border and with aid workers helping to deal with the massive refugee crisis caused by the conflict in Ukraine.
The US president said he would have liked to see the devastation caused by the conflict “first hand”.
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Civilians appear to block Russian tank from entering town in northern Ukraine
“They won’t let me, understandably I guess, cross the border,” he said.