“What we can say for sure is that the situation is unacceptable and these are war crimes,” Macron said. “On our soil – on our European soil we live with unprecedented levels of war crimes.”
Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Macron’s comments explodedHe did not want to acknowledge the genocide of the Ukrainians after all the public statements. [the] Russian leadership and criminal activities [the] The Russian military is disappointing.
“The ‘brother’ people do not kill children,” Nikolenko said.
Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the gruesome scenes in which bodies were found in Pucha, a suburb of Kiev. Every neighborhood After the retreat of the Russian troops, “the genocide is not far off”.
It was not Wednesday that Macron withdrew from Biden’s comments on the war. At the end of last month, the President of France Warned Against escalating the conflict by words or deeds after his U.S. envoy Announced Russian President Vladimir Putin “can not last in power.”
In early March, Putin called on Macron 90 minute discussion About Ukraine, but no diplomatic progress.
“Your country will pay a lot because it is an isolated country, weakened and under sanctions for a very long time,” Macron told Putin.
On Wednesday, Russia rejected Biden’s allegations of “genocide” in Ukraine.
“We do not definitively agree with them,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president. “We consider it unacceptable to try to distort a situation like this.”
He added: “This is unacceptable to the President of the United States.”
The United Nations first recognized genocide as a crime under international law in 1946 Defines It is “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, ethnic or religious group.”
UN officials are justified in using the term; The company has Noted It is often misused to refer to “large-scale, serious crimes committed against specific people.” Only a few incidents in Rwanda, including the 1994 genocide of minority Tutsis, have been defined by the judiciary as genocide, the United Nations has said.
Rick Knock in Paris contributed to this report.
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