Putin has an answer for Biden: “I remember in my childhood, when we argued in the courtyard with each other we used to say: it takes one [killer] to know one. And that’s not a coincidence, not just a children’s saying or joke. The psychological meaning here is very deep,” Putin said.
“We always see our own traits in other people and think they are like how we really are. And as a result we assess (a person’s) activities and give assessments,” he said.
Mr Putin, responding to Mr Biden’s characterisation of him, said he knew the US leader personally, and, in an apparent reference to Mr Biden’s age of 78, said he sincerely wished him good health.
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he and U.S. President Joe Biden should hold live online talks in coming days after Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and diplomatic ties sank to a new post-Cold War low.
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