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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Kremlin says calling Putin a war criminal ‘unacceptable and unforgivable’
US President Joe Biden’s reference to Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” over his military operation in Ukraine is “unacceptable and unforgivable,” the Kremlin says.
“We believe such rhetoric to be unacceptable and unforgivable on the part of the head of a state, whose bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world,” says Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to the state news agencies TASS and Ria Novosti.