american secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said he was okay with President Joe Biden that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, adding that American experts are in the process of document and assess potential war crimes in Ukraine.
“Intentionally targeting civilians is war crime“, Blinken told reporters, adding that he had “difficulty concluding that the Russians are doing otherwise” after the destruction. over the past a few weeks.
“It’s a war criminal“, Biden said recently of Putin as he left an unrelated event.
This is the toughest sentence to date of Actions of Putin and Russia by a US official since invasion of Ukraine.
In a statement, the Kremlin called Biden’s remarks “unacceptable and unforgivable.”
While others world leaders used the words the White House had been hesitant to declare Putin’s actions these of a criminal war saying it was legal term this required research.
Russia invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, a drawn international condemnation, leads to financial punishments on Moscow and stimulated an exodus of global Russian companies.
At least 726 civilians were killed and 1,174 injured in Ukraine from the beginning of the brutal invasion.
More than 3 millions of refugees have fled to neighboring countriesaccording to the UN.
