'And I say to all those who have perpetrated these crimes, and to their superiors who are complicit in those crimes, you will be held to account,' United States Vice President Kamala Harris says.
MUNICH, Germany – The Biden administration formally concluded that Russia has committed “crimes against humanity” during its nearly year-long invasion of Ukraine, US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday, February 18.
The official determination, which came at the end of a legal and factual analysis led by the US State Department, carries with it no immediate consequences for the ongoing war. She said Russia was now a “weakened” country after Biden led a coalition to punish Putin for the invasion, but Russia is only intensifying assaults in Ukraine’s east. Meanwhile, Ukraine is planning a spring counteroffensive, for which it is seeking more, heavier and longer-range weapons from its Western allies.
The UN-backed Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has not yet concluded that the war crimes it says it has identified amount to crimes against humanity.In her remarks, Harris cited as “barbaric and inhumane” the scores of victims found in Bucha shortly after Russia’s invasion last February; the March 9 bombing of a Mariupol maternity hospital, that killed three people, including a child; and the sexual assault of a four-year-old by a Russian soldier that was identified by the UN report.
“Let us all agree: on behalf of all the victims, known and unknown, justice must be served,” Harris said.
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