President A.S. Joe Biden on Monday called on the trial of war crimes for alleged cruelty towards civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, and said he wanted more sanctions imposed on Russia.
Calling President Vladimir Putin “Criminal War” and the murder of “war crimes,” Biden told reporters there must be “war crime trials.”
Biden has called Mr. Putin a war criminal in the past, provoking an angry response from the Kremlin.
“You might remember me criticized,” he said. “Well, the truth of the problem is, you see what happens in Bucha … This person is brutal and what happens to Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it.”
- Putin “is a war criminal,” he said – but he added that “we must collect all the details” to be able to have a trial.
International journalists during the weekend found bodies in civilian clothing, some with bound hands, in the city of Bucha outside the capital of Ukraine after Kyiv’s troops returned from Russian forces.
The scale of the murder is still put together. On Sunday, the Ukrainian prosecutor General Iryna Venenktova said 410 civil bodies had recovered in the wider Kyiv region after Russian forces retreated.
Ukraine and Western leaders have erupted anger over death in Bucha.
Earlier on Monday, the Kremlin rejected allegations that Russian forces were responsible for killing civilians near Kyiv and the pictures of “fake” corpses.
“We firmly rejected all charges,” said Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov to the journalist.
- PESKOV said that Russian experts “at the Ministry of Defense have identified fake video signs and various fakes”.
“We will demand that many international leaders do not rush to sweep the accusations and at least listen to our arguments,” Mr. Peskov said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has called for a special UN Security Council meeting on Monday to overcome what he said was a “vile provocation” to blame Russian forces.
The Russian investigator also announced an investigation into the image, said that according to their Moscow military “was not in accordance with reality and was provocative”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said civil death would be considered “genocide” by international leaders.
“This is a war crime and it will be recognized by the world as a genocide,” Zelensky said when visiting Bucha.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday called for an international investigation of what he called “genocide”.
