Rising US-Russia tensions after Joe Biden agrees that Putin is a ’killer’ | DW News

Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for interfering in US elections, US President Joe Biden said in an ABC News interview that aired Wednesday. “He will pay a price,“ Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “You’ll see shortly.“ The comments came a day after a US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report concluded that Putin approved “influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US,“ in an effort to swing the 2020 US presidential election. Biden told ABC that he knows Putin “relatively well“ and that the two had a “long talk“ in January. When asked if he thinks Putin, who has been accused of poisoning political opponents, is a “killer,“ Biden replied, “I do.“ Biden’s response was markedly di