LVIV, Ukraine — With the war in Ukraine at a critical juncture, President Joe Biden on Saturday used the capital of a country once dominated by the Soviet Union to demand an end to the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin and to exhort U.S. allies to stand up to Russia’s brutal invasion of its neighbor.
“The test of this moment is a test of all time,” Biden said in what was designed as a rousing speech for unity uttered at a Polish castle destroyed by Nazis in World War II — and later rebuilt.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said of Putin — a dramatic final flourish to what the White House called a major speech and a first public reference to regime change to unseat the man he has called a killer and a war criminal.
