President Joe Biden called Putin a 'war criminal' on Wednesday just hours after Ukrainian President Zelenskyy appealed to the U.S. Congress for more assistance in the fight against Russian forces invading his country.
appealed to the U.S. Congress for more assistance in the fight against Russian forces invading his country.
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrive to meet at the 'Villa la Grange', in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. "He was speaking from his heart and speaking from what we’ve seen on television, which is barbaric actions by a brutal dictator through his invasion of a foreign country," Psaki said. A spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, responded by saying that Biden's comments were"unforgivable," according to the Russian media outlet TASS.
Until Wednesday, Biden had resisted calling the Russian President a war criminal, even as multiple lawmakers called for Putin to be investigated for war crimes.
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