US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with a special statement about the “military crimes of Russian troops in Ukraine”.
Voice of America reports that the US State Department officially declares that the US government, based on the currently available information, believes that the Russian military in Ukraine has committed war crimes. American assessment is based on a thorough analysis of available information from open and intelligence sources.
In his statement, Bernken stressed that, “as in the case of any intended crime, a court with jurisdiction against (this) crime must establish a guilt and responsibility for performing each specific crime.”
The Secretary of State stated that the United States would ensure that victims of war crimes were responsible for the deed. At the same time, the United States will use all available tools, including criminal prosecution.
As noted in the statement of the head of the US State Department, as a result of the hostilities of Russian troops, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, critically important infrastructure facilities, shopping centers were destroyed, Civil transport and ambulance cars, as a result of which thousands of innocent civilians were killed or injured.
Secretary of State Blinken noted that “many of the objects on which the Russian troops struck strikes were clearly identified as (objects) used by civilians. Including the Mariupol Parental House, as noted in the report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from March 11.
Similarly, a blow to the building of the theater in Mariupol, next to whom it was clearly written the word “children”, written in Russian, in large letters, so that this word is visible from the air. “
In a statement Blinkenova notes that “Putin’s troops use the same tactics that was used in Grozny and Syrian Aleppo, where they tried to break the will of their inhabitants with the help of bombings of peaceful cities. And attempt to do the same thing in Ukraine again shook the world again And, according to President Zelensky, “melted the people of Ukraine in the sea of blood and tears.”
The number of killed and wounded, innocent civilians, including women and children, is growing in Ukraine every day to continue the war. As of March 22, only in Mariupol, more than 2,400 civilians were killed, according to official data from this departed city. In addition to these figures, the UN officially confirmed more than 2,500 victims among the civilian population of Ukraine, including those killed and wounded, emphasizing that the actual losses are probably higher.