US President Joe Biden for the first time called the atrocities of the Russian invaders that they commit in Ukraine genocide, CNN reports.. Neither the US president nor his aides have ever used the word "

“Your family budget, your ability to fill your tank, all of this should not depend on whether the dictator declares war and commits genocide halfway across the world… To help deal with this rise in Putin’s price, I authorized the release of one million barrels a day from the strategic oil reserve.

Previously, the American president did not call the crimes of the occupiers in Ukraine genocide. And his assistants said that the actions in our country had not yet risen to the level of genocide.

“We have seen atrocities, we have seen war crimes, we have yet to see the level of systematic deprivation of the life of the Ukrainian people rise to the level of genocide,” Jake Sullivan was quoted as saying by CNN earlier this month..

At the same time, it is indicated that last week Sullivan said: “In my opinion, the label is less important than the fact that these actions are cruel and criminal, wrong and evil, and they need to be strongly addressed.”.

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Earlier it was reported that the Verkhovna Rada would appeal to the UN, the European Parliament, PACE, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, as well as governments and parliaments of foreign states with a call to recognize the events in Ukraine as genocide. To do this, the deputies plan to adopt a statement " BP wants to recognize as genocide the actions of Russians committed by them in Ukraine after the start of the invasion on February 24.

In order for the punishment of war criminals responsible for these crimes to occur, two conditions must be met. What kind? Inna Vedernikova talks about this in the article “Reflection of Russia. Who and how documents the atrocities of the “Russian world” in Bucha”.