‘Takes one to know one’: Putin mocks Biden over ‘killer’ remark

Moscow-Washington ties continue to deteriorate over allegations Russia meddled in the US election and as Navalny remains in jail.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked his US counterpart Joe Biden, escalating a war of words between the two world leaders. Putin said “it takes one to know one” after Biden, a day earlier, said he thought the Russian leader was a “killer”. Biden made the comment in an ABC News interview broadcast on Wednesday. When asked if he thought the Russian leader, who has been accused of ordering the poisoning of Alexey Navalny and other rivals, is a “killer”, Biden replied: “I do.”