Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker, R-Miss., delivered a scathing assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, stating the dictator should face execution rather than negotiations, Mediaite reported.

Wicker’s comments followed a meeting between Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Wicker remarked Tuesday on CNN about Putin, calling him a “war criminal” who should be imprisoned or executed.

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