US pressure against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine They took a new turn on Tuesday when the White House announced that Washington is preparing new measures against the Kremlin and the State Department reported that there are “stories” that point to the commission of war crimes by the invading troops.
Talking to reporters about the trip that Biden began on Tuesday To meet with his NATO allies, the White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, announced that he “will join our partners to impose more sanctions on Russia and tighten existing sanctions to end evasion and guarantee a strict application.
Almost a month after the invasion, Russian forces have intensified airstrikes against the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, after President Volodymyr Zlenskyy rejected a request for surrender by Moscow.
State Department spokesman Ned Price gave an account of the damage that the invasion undertaken by President Vladimir Putin has caused in Ukraine.
Price said that since the beginning of the war, “some of the most heinous accounts of what constitute war crimes” have been seen and listed the armed attacks, the lack of food, water and electricity in some of the cities that have been besieged.
“Although the information coming out of the city is limited, the reports they are showing paint a very bleak picture,” he explained about the situation in Mariupol.
Last week Biden described Putin as “a war criminal” for the acts committed against the Ukrainians, however the State Department has reported that it is in the documentation phase to deliver an evaluation to an international commission that is officially in charge of such appointment.
“We are documenting that we are sharing everything with a view to making sure that anyone who perpetrates these atrocities, these abuses, these possible war crimes, are held accountable, whether they are political leaders or commanders on the battlefield,” Price said Tuesday. .
Biden trip to Brussels
Biden travels to Brussels and Poland to take part in an extraordinary NATO summit, accompanied by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. In Brussels, the president also plans to meet with leaders of the European Union and the G7.
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, both the EU and the US have adopted various economic and financial measures against Moscow, in order to make it desist from its war effort.
Later on Tuesday, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, spoke with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, in order to specify adjustments to the meeting in Brussels.
Blinken made clear “the need for a strong and united transatlantic response to the Russian government’s war against Ukraine and welcomed the ongoing work to strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defense,” according to a Department of Defense statement. Condition.
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