Putin retorts after Biden tags him as killer

President Vladimir Putin retorted on Thursday that it takes one to know one. The remarks were made after U.S. President Joe Biden tagged him as a killer.

Putin was speaking on television after Biden, in an ABC News interview, that prompted Russia to recall its Washington ambassador for consultations a day earlier, said “I do” when asked if he believed Putin was a killer.

Biden also described Putin as having no soul and said he would pay a price for alleged Russian meddling in the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, something the Kremlin denies.

Russia is preparing to be hit by a new round of U.S. sanctions in the coming days over the accusation of alleged meddling as well as over an alleged hack.

Putin, responding to Biden’s characterization of him, said he knew the U.S. leader personally, and, in an apparent reference to Biden’s age (78), said he sincerely wished him good health.

Suggesting Biden was hypocritical in his remarks, Putin said that every state had to contend with “bloody events” and added Biden was accusing the Russian leader of something he was guilty of himself.