US President Biden called Russian President Putin a "war criminal" on the 4th. Biden made this statement when talking about the "massacre" of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in the Kiev region. He called Putin murderous, and what happened in Bucha was infuriating and everyone could see it. The Russian side has explicitly denied the claims of Ukraine and the United States. #俄方称布查事件系伪造 #
"I have been criticized for calling Putin a war criminal, but it has been proven that you have all seen what happened to Bucha, which is enough to assume that he is a war criminal ... I think it's a war crime and he's responsible for it," Biden said.
Biden also said he needed to further "gather evidence" and collect all the "details" in order to push for a formal trial of Putin.
In addition, Biden also said that he will impose additional sanctions on Russia for this matter.
Earlier, the Russian side responded that what happened in Bucha was "forged" by the Ukrainian side, the pictures released by the Ukrainian side were "fake", and the "dead bodies" appeared after the withdrawal of the Russian army, and the Russian army did not violently injure any local residents during the Bucha period, but sent them a large number of humanitarian supplies, and the local residents could move and make phone calls freely. On overseas social media, some pro-Russian accounts also said the bodies in the live video were "actors." Some accounts also said that Russia once proposed to hold a meeting in the United Nations Security Council to investigate the truth about the Bucha matter, but was rejected by the British presidency, which accused the West of concealing the truth and slandering Russia.
According to the British Reuters news agency, the Russian side has indeed made a request to convene a security council on the Bucha incident, and the specific request is to investigate the "provocative behavior" of Ukrainian "extremists" in Bucha. According to the New York Times, satellite images released by US satellite company Maxar Technologies show that "dead bodies" had appeared on the local streets before the Russian military withdrew on March 30.
After Biden called Putin a war criminal, some pro-Russia accounts asked when the U.S. government leaders who invaded Iraq with lies and massacred so many civilians there will be tried.