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A Kremlin spokesperson has said that comments the US made calling Putin a war criminal were “unacceptable” and “unforgivable rhetoric,” reports Reuters citing Russia state-owned TASS News agency. 
  Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that Biden’s comments characterising Putin as a war criminal were “unacceptable and unforgivable rhetoric,” according to TASS. 
  Earlier, Biden called Putin a “war criminal,” using the term for the first time in reference to Russia’s leader.

🚨This marks the first time the administration has referred to the Russian President as a war criminal - until now, officials have shied away from that language.

POTUS tells me “I think he is a war criminal”

(Thanks to @kwelkernbc for the camera work 🎥) pic.twitter.com/u4fLdkxMbt

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