The president of United States, Joe Biden, on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for his invasion of neighboring Ukraine. “I think he’s a war criminal“, Biden told a journalist who questioned him at the White House after an event dedicated to the fight against domestic violence.
The White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, then qualified the president’s words, saying that “he was speaking from the heart… after the barbaric actions of a brutal dictator… There is a legal process that is still open in the department of state,” he said.
The video of Biden calling Putin a war criminal. The White House spokeswoman says the president “speaks from the heart” and that her statement reflects “the barbaric actions of a brutal dictator.” She then specifies that there is a legal process to declare it as such pic.twitter.com/NFxYQeD3nQ
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The comments came on the same day as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has intervened in the US Congress to implore the United States to reconsider its request to create a no-fly zone over Ukrainein a speech before Congress in which he urged President Joe Biden to “be the leader of peace.”
A Kremlin spokesman responded shortly after to Biden, assuring that the comments made by the US calling Putin a war criminal are “unacceptable” and are part of “unforgivable rhetoric,” Reuters reports, citing the Russian state news agency TASS as attributing the remarks to spokesman Dmitry Peskov.