BIDEN CALLS PUTIN A ‘WAR CRIMINAL’ AND SAY HE WILL CALL FOR A TRIAL

Mon 04 April 2022:

US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal on Monday, and said he would call for a war crimes trial.

“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal”

Biden also said he would seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine, but his comments to reporters did not go as far as calling the actions genocide.

“We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the detail so this can be an actual – have a war crimes trial,” Biden said, according to remarks posted by Associated Press.

Biden lashed out at Putin as “brutal.”

“What’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it,” Biden added.

In a separate move, a senior US defence official informed Reuters that the US believes Russia has repositioned about two thirds of its forces from around Kyiv, with many of them consolidating in Belarus. They anticipate they will be re-directed to the east of Ukraine, but that is not yet confirmed.

“Stage-managed anti-Russian provocation”

Sergey Lavrov said at the start of his talks with UN Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths that the Ukrainian allegations were a “direct threat to global peace and security”.

“The other day, another fake attack was launched in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, after Russian military personnel left this place in accordance with plans,” Lavrov said during his meeting with UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths.

Lavrov also said that the West and Ukraine are spreading “staged” videos from Bucha in media.

“We requested an urgent meeting of the Security Council on this specific issue, because we see in such provocations a direct threat to international peace and security,” Lavrov added.

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