US President Joe Biden says Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal, in the sharpest condemnation yet of Putin and Russian actions by a US official since the invasion of Ukraine.
While leaving an unrelated event, a reporter asks Biden if he is ready to call Putin a war criminal. “No,” Biden responds and walks off.
Sometime later he returns to the reporter to clarify what she had asked, and responds that “I think he is a war criminal.”
He leaves before answering any other questions.
While other world leaders have used the term, the White House had been hesitant to declare Putin’s actions those of a war criminal, saying it was a legal term that required research.
AP contributed.
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