The Secretary of State believes that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
In his opinion, war crimes have been committed in Ukraine. I agree. During a press conference at the State Department, Tony Blinken said that targeting civilians is a war crime.
He said it was difficult to conclude that the Russians were not doing anything.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden called Russian President Putin a war criminal. Biden branded Putin with that term for the first time.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that Biden was speaking from his heart about what he has seen on the news, which she described as barbaric actions by a brutal dictator.
There is a legal process underway at the State Department to determine if Putin committed war crimes.
A laundry list of reports in which Russian forces targeted Ukrainian civilians was described by the nation's top diplomat.
Russian forces bombed a theatre in Mariupol where hundreds of people had taken shelter. The word children was written in Russian in giant white letters on the pavement outside the building so that you could know from the air that there were children inside.
He said that the U.S. had observed a long list of attacks on civilian and nonmilitary locations.
More than 1,252 civilians have been injured in the invasion of Ukraine, according to the United Nations.
On Wednesday, the UN's top court ruled in favor of Ukraine and ordered Russia to stop fighting. The International Court of Justice hearings on the matter were snubbed by Russia.
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