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By Liv Klingert As Russia persists with its military assault on Ukraine, US President Joe Biden has hardened rhetoric, calling Russia’s war in Ukraine “genocide” and accusing Vladimir Putin of attempting to “wipe out the idea of even being Ukrainian.”
“Yes, I called it genocide,” he told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday just before heading back to Washington on Air Force One. “It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian.”
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy applauded the statement, having previously encouraged Western leaders to use the term.
True words of a true leader @POTUS. Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil. We are grateful for US assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities.
However, the US President didn’t announce new sanctions for Russia following the statement.
Strict definition of genocide
The United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
Previously, Biden denounced Putin as a “war criminal” following the discovery of hundreds of dead civilians in Bucha, outside Kyiv, after the Russian occupation of the suburb.
Yet he didn’t use the term “genocide” up until now as the term has a strict legal definition. Biden added that it would be for lawyers to decide if Russia’s actions were in line with the definition of genocide, but “it sure seems that way to me,” he said.
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These soldiers are from a country whose president is a Jew Zelensky. Orthodox churches are also being destroyed in this country. Synagogues are not touched. Surprisingly, it turns out that Jews get along well with the Bandera Nazis.