Scholz said that NATO did not have a goal of "changing the regime" in Russia

"Regime change" in Russia is not NATO's goal, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told ARD.

“U.S. President [Joe] Biden doesn’t want that either, even though he said in his speech yesterday that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin “can’t stay in power any longer,” the head of the German government said (quoted by Focus).

Biden, during his speech in Warsaw, said: "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power [after the military actions in Ukraine]." A White House spokesman subsequently clarified that the American leader did not call for a change of power in Russia. “The President believes that Putin should not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors,” his administration explained.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Biden "a victim of many delusions." According to him, the Kremlin does not know exactly what Biden wanted to say, but “who should and who should not be in power in Russia” is a question for Russian citizens, and not for the president or any US citizen.