US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a ‘murderous dictator and pure thug’ in his St Patrick’s Day speech.
He began with the joke: “I may be Irish but I am not stupid” before he called Putin a war criminal.
“Father before I began, bless me, father I’m about to sin,” he said as he made the sign of a cross.
“Well, I just want you to know, I may be Irish but I’m not stupid. I married Dominic Giacoppo’s daughter,” he continued, referencing the Sicilian name of his wife Jill Biden’s father, Donald Jacobs.
He then called Putin a “murderous dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of Ukraine.”
“And Putin is paying a big price for his aggression, and they are part of the reason the cost is going so high,” he added.
His speech comes 21 days since the start of the invasion. Putin has also issued a warning, saying the U.S. may need to be “put in its place” for sharing “disgusting Russiaphobia.”
Bide, who is five-eighths Irish, also mentioned his phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping and that the world is in a “genuine struggle between autocracies and democracies and whether or not democracies can be sustained.”
Hailing the country’s efforts to help defend Ukraine, he said: “Everybody talks about Germany having stepped up and changed. And they have. Well, so has Ireland.
“A neutral country. Ireland has stepped up and taken a hit for it.”
Putin’s troops have continued to attack Ukraine by besieging and bombing major cities.
The State Department confirmed that an American citizen was shot dead by Russian troops in the northern city of Chernihiv.
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