“Russia’s initial goal failed, Ukraine is well… The US will continue the fight for freedom”
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Sang-heon = US President Joe Biden on the 6th (local time) declared the incident of the secondary massacre in Ukraine a ‘serious war crime’ and took a firm stance that he would hold Russia accountable with harsher sanctions. was reconfirmed.
President Biden said in a speech at the North American Construction Workers’ Union event held at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., “The civilians were brutally executed. The bodies were dumped in huge graves. no,” he said.
“Responsible countries must come together and hold these perpetrators accountable,” he said.
On the 4th, following defining the incidental massacre as a war crime and urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes, this time, he raised the level of criticism by expressing the incidental massacre as a ‘serious war crime’.
The promise to hold the perpetrators accountable was also aimed at President Putin.
The West, including the United States, have already begun collecting evidence of the secondary genocide together with the United Nations, and are showing their will to document this and bring Putin to justice.
Next, President Biden explained the new sanctions once morest Russia announced on the same day, saying that it would have a severe impact on the Russian economy.
On the same day, the US imposed additional sanctions that banned new investment in Russia and blocked Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-owned bank, and Alphabank, Russia’s largest private bank, from the US financial system. Putin’s two daughters and key close aides and their families were also placed on the sanctions list.
President Biden said he would continue to increase pressure on Russia, while continuing to provide military aid and other aid to Ukraine, which is fighting Russia.
He also emphasized that “Russia has already failed in its initial war goals” and that the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is still in good health.
“This war may go on for a long time, but the United States will continue to fight for Ukraine, its people and freedom,” he said.
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