

The Kremlin on Wednesday said President Biden’s comments calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” were “unforgivable,” according to Reuters.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Biden’s statement “unacceptable and unforgivable rhetoric on the part of the head of a state whose bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world,” according to Russian state news agency TASS.
Biden on Wednesday called Putin a “war criminal” for the first time, upping American rhetoric and jumping ahead of a legal process that can take years.
“I think he is a war criminal,” Biden told reporters at an event at the White House.
The State Department has initiated a process officially designating Putin a war criminal, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday.
Biden’s remarks came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s virtual address to Congress, in which he made an emotional plea for more help.
Zelensky has implored the U.S. and other allied nations to impose a humanitarian no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying, “Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people.”
Biden has resisted the move because of concerns that it would trigger a larger war.
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution backing a war crimes investigation into Putin and Russian forces.
The bipartisan resolution urged the International Criminal Court in The Hague and other nations to launch an investigation of war crimes committed by the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine.
The fighting in Ukraine has displaced more than 3 million people since the invasion began on Feb. 24, according to estimates from the United Nations.
The Yucatan Times
Newsroom
Comments
more recommended stories
Ray Liotta, ‘Goodfellas’ star and gifted character actor, dies at 67
Ray Liotta, the actor best known.
Merida City Council presented the 2022 Forestry Crusade “In Harmony with Nature”
With the aim of continuing to.
Huge Flamboyán tree falls on top of a car in Ucú, Yucatán
A mother who went to pick.
Photographic essay: Colombia elections, a reality not too far away from Mexico’s
Colombia will host Presidential elections this.
Mérida and San Francisco outline projects to multiply the areas of opportunity
“As a Municipality, we work in.
On the issue of the Cuban doctors in Mexico, AMLO literally said: “Conservatives go to hell!”
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of.
Yucatan and Campeche, the states with the highest honey production in Mexico
Within the framework of World Bee.
Is Yucatan ‘running out’ of priests?
“In Yucatan there are around 150.
AMLO meets privately with the owner of Calica
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held.
Playa del Carmen “suffers” the massive arrival of sargassum
The massive arrival of sargassum on.
Leave a Comment