OREANDA-NEWS. U.S. President Joe Biden's harsh remarks about Russian leader Vladimir Putin were made on emotion. This opinion was expressed by the State Department's senior adviser on energy security, Amos Hockstin, TASS reports. According to him, Biden's position does not reflect the official policy of the White House.

The president's statement does not correspond to official US policy, does not reflect what the United States is doing <...> This statement was emotional, he said.

During a speech in Warsaw on March 26, Biden said that Ukraine "will never be a victory for Russia" and the Russian leader "cannot remain in power." The head of the White House also called Putin a "butcher".

On March 25, the President of the United States said that he considers his Russian colleague a "war criminal." He suggested that his personal opinion would not differ from the formal legal assessment.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Biden's personal insults to Putin narrowed the window of opportunity for improving relations between Moscow and Washington.

U.S. leader Joe Biden's statements about Russian President Vladimir Putin are leading to huge problems that the U.S. authorities have previously tried their best to avoid, Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) told CNN in an interview. He noted that the call to overthrow the ruling regime often causes tensions to escalate.