US President Joe Biden did not call for regime change in Russia during his speech in Warsaw on 26 March, a White House official has stated after POTUS said that "this man cannot remain in power", referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change", the official said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, cited by Reuters, responded to Biden's words, noting that it was not up to the US president to decide who the president of Russia is.
"That's not for Biden to decide. The president of Russia is elected by Russians", Peskov said.
A significant part of Biden's speech in Poland was dedicated to the situation in Ukraine, which the West claims was "invaded" by Russia. President Vladimir Putin ordered the launch of a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February in response to a request from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) to defend them against Ukrainian forces shelling their cities. Putin stated that the goals of the operation are the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine.
The Kremlin has repeatedly stressed that its armed forces are not targeting civilian infrastructure and aim exclusively at military targets and objects used by the Ukrainian military and nationalist battalions.