US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “clearly” misjudged the situation in Ukraine and “completely miscalculated” about the resistance he would encounter.
“I think he was a rational person who clearly miscalculated” the situation, Joe Biden said in an interview with CNN, which released some quotes ahead of the scheduled Tuesday night broadcast.
“He thought he was going to be welcomed with open arms (…) and I think he made a complete miscalculation,” the US president said again of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Russia claimed responsibility for new “massive” attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure on Tuesday, for which the G7, meeting urgently, promised to “hold the Russian president accountable.”
The Russian military has recently suffered a series of setbacks in northeastern, eastern and southern Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
