The reproach “genocide“, that is, outraged by racial extermination Joe Biden to Wladimir Putin for the Russian massacres in Ukraine feeds international tensions. “Yes, I called it genocide,” the White House chief told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday, confirming a concept he voiced at a public event hours earlier: “other part of the world is committing genocide.” For the White House tenant, “It is becoming increasingly clear what Putin is aiming for erase even the idea of being Ukrainian. We let the lawyers decide how we qualify him internationally, but for sure this is how it looks to me“.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s announcement of further military aid to Ukraine is expected in the next few hours 750 million. It is not yet clear whether this new round will include other offensive weapons, as repeatedly requested by Kyiv. According to Reuters which cites a source in the US Congress there will be howitzerssystems of heavy artillery able to hit a target up 70 kilometers awaywhile a US Department of Defense official ruled out the broadcast Mi17 Helicopter as instead seemed envisaged in the preliminary plans circulating between government officials and lawmakers in Washington.
The first reaction comes out in the middle of the next day Kremlin: Biden’s definition is “unacceptable‘ says Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. The turnaround, on the other hand, was very much appreciated by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyywho tweeted what he defines as “true words from a true leader”: “call things by their names It is important to fight evil. We are grateful for the US assistance so far and we urgently ask for new heavy weapons to fight Russian atrocities, the Ukrainian leader wrote. “The Russians destroyed the hospitals and the whole city. This is genocide perpetrated against our nation by a war criminal, Putin. As long as we resist, Ukraine will also resist, replies the mayor of the besieged city of Mariupol. Vadim Boichenko.
The French president seemed less than enthusiastic about Biden’s verbal kidnapping Emmanuel Macron. “What is happening is unprecedented brutality but at the same time I’m looking at the facts and I want to try as much as possible to stop this war and restore peace so I’m not sure what that isescalation of words it serves the cause,” he said in a television interview with France 2 channel. However, he specified that “it is clear that war crimes were committed by the Russian army” and that “we must now find those responsible and bring them justice.” . A position that displeased Kyiv: “The reluctance of the French president to recognize the genocide of the Ukrainians, after all the explicit statements by the Russian leadership and the criminal actions of the Russian army, is disappointing,” he explains Oleg Nikolenkothe spokesman of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba.
Cold reaction to Biden, on the other hand, from the Beijing government, which has close ties to Putin but does not support the invasion: China “has always claimed that the highest priority this is to be kept for all interested parties quiet and the sobrietycease fire and stop the war as soon as possible to avoid a largescale humanitarian crisis,” said the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, answering a question at a press conference. “All efforts of the international community should aim at that Escalation reductionnot Pour oil on the fireand press for one diplomatic solution“Don’t exacerbate the scenarios any further,” he warned.