Biden called putin a barbarian and called for a trial on Russia's war crimes in Ukraine
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After seeing Bucha, US President Joe Biden called Russian President vladimir putin a barbarian and said that all evidence of russian atrocities should be gathered to punish russia for this war crime.
This was reported by CNN.
"You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal. Well, the truth of the matter is you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants him — he is a war criminal.
But we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight and we have to get all the details so this can be an actual — have a war crime trial.
This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone's seen it," Biden said.
At the same time, Biden stated that he did not consider the killing of civilians in the Kyiv region a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
When asked by reporters whether the US president could call the crimes committed in Bucha genocide, Biden told reporters: "No. I think it is a war crime."
On April 1, Bucha was liberated from the Russian occupiers. On April 2, Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk announced that nearly 300 citizens had been buried in mass graves and that dozens of corpses lay in the streets, some with their hands tied.
As of the morning of April 4, 330-340 Ukrainian civilians killed in Bucha were buried.
On April 3, the Prosecutor General announced that 410 bodies of killed civilians had been removed from the territory of the Kyiv region, which had been liberated from the occupiers, for examination.
