US President Joe Biden has called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he will seek more sanctions after the reported atrocities in Ukraine. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Mr Biden said, describing Mr Putin as a “war criminal”.
Mr Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding the capital Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Mr Zelensky called the Russian actions “genocide” and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.
Mr Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide. The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general Iryna Venediktova said.
