The Kremlin said on Friday that the whole world had paid attention to Joe Biden’s verbal slips at a NATO summit and said the way the U.S. president had spoken about Russian President Vladimir Putin was unacceptable.
The Kremlin was commenting after Biden on Thursday misspoke and introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin,” before quickly correcting himself. In another slip, Biden mixed up the names of Kamala Harris, his vice-president, and his election opponent Donald Trump.
“We noticed that the whole world paid attention to what happened, and there can be no comment here (from us), but it is clear that these were slips of the tongue,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“It is understandable that they probably received such a wide resonance given the context of the internal political discussions that we are now witnessing in the US, but it’s not our topic, it’s an internal U.S. topic,” he said.
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