Biden claims again that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine

Biden claims again that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. 

For the first time, US Vice President Joe Biden called Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine genocide. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Russia would continue its operation “rhythmically and calmly” to achieve its objectives.

As he prepared to board Air Force One on Tuesday, Biden told reporters, “Yes, I called it genocide because it has gotten more and clearer that Putin is essentially attempting to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian, and the evidence is increasing.”

Biden has regularly referred to Putin as a war criminal. Still, during a speech at an ethanol facility in Iowa on Tuesday, the US president accused Russia of genocide.

“We’ll let the attorneys decide if it qualifies on an international level, but it sure appears that way to me.”

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Russia has denied targeting civilians and claimed that claims of war crimes leveled against it by Ukraine and the West are false.

According to Kyiv, many cities in northern Ukraine where Russia has withdrawn were littered with the bodies of residents slaughtered in a campaign of murder, torture, and rape.

According to the Kyiv district police head, 720 bodies have been discovered in the city’s territory, with more than 200 persons still missing, according to Interfax Ukraine.

On February 24, the Kremlin announced the start of a “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” Ukraine. 

According to Kyiv and its Western supporters, that is a bogus justification for the attack.

Moscow’s nearly seven-week assault, the worst attack on a European state since 1945, has displaced over 4.6 million people, killed or injured thousands, and further isolated Russia on the international stage.

Putin said on Tuesday, in his first public comments on the crisis in more than a week, that Russia would continue its operation “rhythmically and quietly” and that he was confident that his objectives, including security, would be met.

In an early-morning address on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Putin, saying, “How could a strategy allow the killing of tens of thousands of their soldiers in a little more than a month of battle come about?”

Putin added that on-again, off-again peace talks had “returned to a dead-end situation for us.”

Putin regularly seemed to meander or stammer when making his remarks. Only on rare occasions did he assume the cool, arrogant demeanor that has become his trademark in Russia’s leadership over the past 22 years.

Putin had mostly faded from public view since Russia’s pullout from northern Ukraine two weeks ago, after being omnipresent on Russian television in the early days of the war.