BIDEN’S WAR CRIME COMMENT ON PUTIN UNACCEPTABLE, KREMLIN SAYS

Tue 05 April 2022:

The Kremlin said remarks by US President Joe Biden yesterday calling for Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes was unacceptable and unworthy of a US leader.

Biden was responding to harrowing images broadcast around the world after the discovery over the weekend of a mass grave and bodies in civilian clothes, some with their hands bound, in the town of Bucha, near Kyiv.

“You may remember I got criticised for calling Putin a war criminal,” Biden told reporters at the Fort McNair army post in Washington on Monday.

Well, the truth of the matter – we saw it happen in Bucha – he is a war criminal.

Speaking to reporters today, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said allegations Russian forces committed war crimes by executing civilians in Bucha were a “monstrous forgery” aimed at “denigrating” the Russian army:

It is a simply a well-directed – but tragic – show.

Peskov added:

We once again urge the international community: detach yourself from such emotional perceptions and think with your head. Compare the facts and understand what a monstrous forgery we are dealing with.

Russia does not reject the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Peskov said, but he stressed that a meeting can only happen once a document has been agreed upon.

Peskov declined to comment on the progress of peace talks between Russian and Ukraine, which are said to be taking place today via video link, Interfax news agency cited a deputy Russian foreign minister as saying earlier today.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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