Vice President Harris said in a recent interview that the Biden administration was not trying to remove Putin from office.
Harris remarked on Russia during an interview on MSNBC, nearly a week after President Joe Biden rebuked Putin's leadership during a European trip to strengthen ties with allies.
The president said at the time thatUkraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of darkness.
The comments immediately created an international uproar, with many expressing concern that Biden was escalating US-Russia relations during a time when Ukraine was seeking to successfully negotiate peace talks.
Harris wanted to push back against the idea that the administration was trying to oust Putin.
Let me be clear. We don't like regime change. That is not our policy. She told him that was the case.
The vice president said that the policy from the beginning was to make sure that there were real costs to be exacted against Russia in the form of severe sanctions.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that the president was rejecting Putin's actions.
The White House made the point last night that President Putin can't wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine, he said while in Jerusalem.
Biden was asked if he regretted his comments, but he swatted away that line of questioning and said that his comments in Warsaw were driven by his moral outrage.
He said that he was not walking anything back and that he was expressing the moral outrage he felt towards Putin.
Biden has called Putin a war criminal for his invasion of Ukraine.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says at least 1,325 Ukrainian citizens have died in the country since the beginning of the invasion.
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