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John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, became emotional as he talked about the horrors that have been unfolding in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February.

Kirby was asked if he thinks Putin is a rational actor after launching a war that has killed at least 10,000 civilians in Ukraine, including at least two Americans.

It's hard to see what he's doing in Ukraine, what his forces are doing there, and think that any ethical, moral individual could justify that. Kirby said that it was difficult to look at.

He paused for around 10 seconds and apologized to the reporters as he looked away. He said that it is difficult to see some of the images and imagine that a mature leader would do that. I can't speak to his psychology, but I think we can all speak to his depravity.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby pauses during an emotional moment while talking about Russia's war in Ukraine at a press briefing on Friday.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby pauses during an emotional moment while talking about Russia's war in Ukraine at a press briefing on Friday. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Kirby apologized for getting emotional, he didn't mean to. I don't want to make this about me, I've known friends who didn't, and I've been around the military a long time.

It's difficult, he said, noting the journalists who have people there who are seeing the images.

It's hard to call it what it is, his B.S., that this is about Nazism and Ukraine.

It's hard to square that rhetoric with what he's doing inside of Ukraine, where innocent people are being shot in the back of the head, pregnant women are being killed, and hospitals are being bombed. He said it was just unconscionable.

At the White House press briefing, Jen Psaki was asked if the idea that Putin is depraved is something that Biden agrees with.

I don't think the president thinks of President Putin as a model in the world because he has heard the president call him a war criminal. He views him as a pariah because he is guilty of war crimes and genocide.

A Ukrainian flag is seen in an Irpin apartment building damaged in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian flag is seen in an Irpin apartment building damaged in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Many men, women and children have found themselves in harm's way in the months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Thousands of war crimes are being investigated by the International Criminal Court, along with teams from Poland and Lithuania.

The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said that 8,653 war crimes have been registered so far, and that 620 suspects have been accused of aggression. The office said that 217 children have been killed and 393 have been injured in the war.

Satellite images in early April appeared to show what officials and witnesses said were the bodies of 300 people killed during Russia's occupation of the city of Bucha.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is worse than the Islamic State in terms of scale and ruthlessness of crimes.

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