Biden calls Putin a 'war criminal' after announcing a blockbuster military aid package to help Ukraine fight Russia https://www.businessinsider.com/bid...g-condemnation-military-ukraine-russia-2022-3 President Joe Biden on Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "war criminal." It's the first time Biden classified Putin as such since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three weeks ago. Russia's attacks on civilians have prompted Ukrainian officials to accuse the country of war crimes. President Joe Biden delivered his harshest condemnation yet of Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a "war criminal" on Wednesday afternoon. "He is a war criminal," Biden said to reporters briefly at the White House after announcing a sweeping new $800 million military aid package for Ukraine. It's the first time Biden classified Putin as such. It comes as Russian forces continue to bombard Ukrainian civilians and cities. "We're united in our abhorrence of Putin's depraved onslaught and we'll continue to have their backs as they fight for freedom, democracy, their very survival," he said earlier while announcing the new aid package. Until now, the president had avoided lobbying the accusation against Putin, citing an ongoing investigation into Russia's actions in Ukraine. Hours earlier, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona told CNN reporter Manu Raju that Putin is a war criminal and urged Biden to "absolutely" call him such. CSPAN captured footage of the impromptu encounter in which Biden initially responded "no" to a reporter's question of whether or not the president was ready to call Putin a war criminal. Moments later, however, Biden returned to clarify, asking the journalist to repeat her question, upon which he made the comments. After Biden's comments, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told CNN that the president was "speaking from the heart." She said Biden's statement was shaped by the "barbaric" attacks Russia has committed throughout Ukraine. Meanwhile, the International Court of Justice ordered Russia on Wednesday to immediately stop its attack on Ukraine as it investigates claims of genocide. Since Putin's war declaration on Ukraine nearly three weeks ago, Russian attacks on civilians have led Ukrainian officials and leaders to accuse them of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The US doesn't even recognise the Internal Criminal Court but some want to use it to go after Russia. Sen. Lindsey Graham is promoting a resolution in support of charging Russia with war crimes at the ICC. But the US doesn't recognize the court's authority, and Trump even sanctioned it when he was President. "I think there was an effort by some to hold [former Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld accountable as a war criminal," said Graham. He specifically mentioned Israel, the closest ally of the US in the Middle East. The US has often downplayed allegations of war crimes against Israel and opposed ICC probes into such accusations. https://www.businessinsider.com/lin...nal-court-ukraine-resolution-2022-3?r=US&IR=T
The Nazis blew up their headquarters in the Drama Theater of Mariupol, where they were holding hostages The Nazis from the terrorist battalion “Azov " (banned in Russia) in Mariupol blew up their headquarters, which was based in the Mariupol Drama Theater and what was known. They held civilians hostage in their headquarters, which was located in the basement of the theater, but on the first floor of the building. Today, the Mariupol Drama Theater was blown up, apparently with civilians inside, hostages of Ukrainian fascists 21: 13, Mariupol, The fact that the main headquarters of the Ukrainian Nazis from Azov was located in the Drama Theater of Mariupol and that they are holding civilians there as hostages, it became known earlier from the captured Nazi of the same terrorist battalion “Azov". It was also known in advance that these fascists were preparing a bloody provocation in the theater with the death of civilians. Today, apparently during the retreat, as fighting is already going on in the center of Mariupol, these fascists blew up the theater, apparently with civilians inside. At the same time, according to the already proven propaganda technology, they blamed Russia for this. Allegedly, the Russian Federation dropped a super-powerful aerial bomb on the theater. Which is impossible, since there are fights going on all over the area. In any military conflicts, aviation does not work in those areas where there is a battle with manpower, since such strikes destroy everything, both their own and others'. No army ever goes for it, it's just plain idiocy. In addition, Russia does not bomb Ukrainian cities with aerial bombs, which has already been denied dozens of times. There is no need for Russia to do this. In Mariupol, there is a sweep from terrorists and fascists, it is not the first day. And if Russia wanted to bomb it, it wouldn't have taken so many days of besieging Mariupol and clearing it of terrorists. But Russia is conducting this complex operation only in order to save the lives of peaceful residents of Mariupol, who were taken hostage by these Ukrainian fascists, to which there are hundreds of testimonies from the residents of Mariupol themselves, who are breaking out of the city occupied by the Nazis. The Russian Defense Ministry said that on the afternoon of March 16, Russian aircraft did not perform any tasks related to striking ground targets in the city of Mariupol. "According to reliable data, the militants of the nationalist battalion "Azov" committed a new bloody provocation, blowing up the theater building they had mined." “Given the potential danger to the lives of civilians, and the provocation already carried out on March 9 with hospital No. 3 in Mariupol, the theater building in the city center was never considered as a target for destruction, " the Defense Ministry said. A captured Nazi from Azov earlier said that the Nazis were planning to blow up a theater with people, and also said that 12 armed Nazis were guarding hostages in the theater's lobby so that people would not escape. The headquarters of the Ukrainian fascists was located in the basement. Eyewitnesses in Mariupol, local residents, confirmed that earlier in the day, when the forces of the Donbass militia and Chechen special forces approached, the Azov headquarters left there in an unknown direction. Then, apparently, they blew up the building to create a picture for internal Ukrainian fascist propaganda and Western media. And they do so now all over Ukraine. This is the tactic of the real fascists, which they are. During the war, the Nazis mined everything during their retreat, and then blew it up remotely together with civilians, when the Red Army approached. All this has already been recorded in the history of 1941-1945. The Ukrainian fascists created a similar fake with the maternity hospital of Mariupol, where their headquarters was also located earlier. After setting off a deliberate explosion there, they also accused Russia of launching airstrikes on the maternity hospital. And if you asked what fascism and Nazism are expressed in Ukraine, then this is it! ---- And at the same time, Biden has found the time to call Putin 'war criminal'. What a coincidence. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/ukraine-open-thread-2022-28.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef0282e1499454200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef0282e1499454200b
And the actual Reality instead of twisted Russian propaganda... Russia bombs theater where hundreds sought shelter and 'children' was written on grounds https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/europe/ukraine-mariupol-bombing-theater-intl/index.html A theater where hundreds of people had taken shelter in Mariupol was bombed on Wednesday, according to local authorities, as hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in the coastal Ukrainian city that has been encircled for weeks by Russian forces. Mariupol City Council, who shared an image of the destroyed building, said Russian forces had "purposefully and cynically destroyed the Drama Theater in the heart of Mariupol." "The plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds of peaceful Mariupol residents were hiding," it said. CNN has geolocated the image and confirmed it is of the theater in the southeastern port city. The word "children" was spelled out on two sides of the theater before it was bombed, according to satellite images. Videos of the aftermath showed a fire raging in the theater's ruins. The number of casualties is unknown, authorities said. "It is still impossible to estimate the scale of this horrific and inhumane act, because the city continues to shell residential areas," the council wrote on Telegram. "It is known that after the bombing, the central part of the Drama Theater was destroyed, and the entrance to the bomb shelter in the building was destroyed," it added. New satellite images from Maxar Technologies show that on Monday, the word "children" was spelled out in Russian in two areas outside the theater that was bombed on Wednesday. The Drama Theater in Mariupol was attacked on Wednesday. The number of casualties is unknown. Petro Andruishchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, described the theater as the largest shelter "in number and size" in the city's center. "More than a thousand people were hiding there" but"the probability of getting there to dismantle the rubble is low due to constant shelling and bombing of the city," he said. Military strikes also hit a building that houses the Neptune Pool, just over four kilometers (approximately 2.5 miles) from the theater, according to videos shared by a local official. Its authenticity has been confirmed by CNN. Maxim Kach, a Mariupol city government official, said the building was for civilians, with only women and young children hiding within it and not military personnel. He said rescue workers were busy trying to get a pregnant woman out from under the rubble. CNN has not been able to verify that information. Mariupol has been besieged by Russian forces since March 1. After weeks of failed attempts to establish safe civilian evacuation corridors, about 20,000 people managed to leave the city on Tuesday, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said. Officials say its trapped residents have been surviving without electricity, water and food, with people melting snow or dismantling heating systems for a drop to drink. The relentless bombardment and street fights in the city have restricted movements. The day before, a Ukrainian official accused Russian troops of holding some 400 people captive at Mariupol's Regional Intensive Care Hospital. "It is impossible to find words that could describe the level of cruelty and cynicism with which the Russian occupiers are destroying the civilian population of the Ukrainian city by the sea. Women, children, and the elderly remain in the enemy's sights. These are completely unarmed peaceful people," the city council said. "We will never forgive and never forget," it added. The unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Mariupol has enraged local officials. "These bastards are trying [to] physically destroy Mariupol and the people of Mariupol, which have been a symbol of our resistance," Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of Donetsk region administration, said on Facebook Wednesday. He says the "fate is unknown" of the hundreds of people sheltering in the theater "as the entrance to the bomb shelter is blocked by rubble," he said. "The Russians are already lying, [saying] that the headquarters of the Azov Regiment was there. But they themselves are well aware that there were only civilians," he said. After Russia bombed a maternity hospital on March 9, its Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged without evidence that the hospital was the ultra-nationalist militia Azov battalion's base and that all patients and nurses had left. A Russian Ministry of Defense spokesperson later denied in a briefing that Russia had shelled the maternity hospital at all, calling it a "provocation." Mariupol has been reduced to a battle zone, with the city's deputy mayor telling CNN on Tuesday that Russia has been bombarding the city with missiles, saying that they counted 22 aircraft on Monday "which were bombing our city, and at least 100 bombs." Residents who fled the city have described conditions there as "unbearable" and "just hell." On Tuesday, shocking drone footage and satellite photos showing rising plumes of thick smoke and destroyed buildings emerged, underscoring the sheer devastation wrought by the Russian bombardment. As many as 2,500 civilians have died in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials estimate, and hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in the city -- with officials warning those who remain are without electricity, water and heat.
I have now words... RIP ...what a crime! @gwb-trading You covering for these nazi bastards,in 20 years this is how low you came to on this forum
I think you are sadly mistaken about who the Nazis are in this war. They are Putin and his supporters.
find me a video where there is a search for survivors, there is none,because azov battalion does not permit for it I bet your neighbours cross the street when they see you to avoid conversation https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/the-hypocrisy-of-leading-anti-vaxxers.363545/#post-5524334