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Kremlin condemns US president's 'unforgivable rhetoric' Biden brands Putin a 'war criminal'
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 17 - 03 - 2022

US President Joe Biden has labeled Russian leader Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" in a move likely to escalate diplomatic tensions even further.
Biden delivered the remark off-the-cuff in response to a reporter's question at the White House.
It is the first time he has used such language to condemn President Putin, and the White House later said he was "speaking from his heart".
The Kremlin, however, said it was "unforgivable rhetoric".
"We believe such rhetoric to be unacceptable and unforgivable on the part of the head of a state, whose bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state news agency Tass.
The exchange in Washington happened Wednesday when a reporter asked the US president: "Mr President, after everything we have seen, are you ready to call Putin a war criminal?"
The President replied "no" before being challenged, and then changed his reply: "Did you ask me whether I would tell ....? Oh, I think he is a war criminal."
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki later said the president had been speaking from his heart after seeing "barbaric" images of the violence in Ukraine, rather than making any official declaration.
She noted that there was a separate legal process, run by the State Department, to determine war crimes — and that was ongoing separately.
The president's official Twitter account posted: "Putin is inflicting appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine — bombing apartment buildings and maternity wards... these are atrocities. It is an outrage to the world."
It came after a busy day of political theater in both the US and Russia over Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier gave a speech by video link to the US Congress, receiving a standing ovation. Hours later, Biden approved additional weapons aid for Ukraine, bringing the total US contribution to $1bn (£760m).
On the other side of the world, President Putin also gave a televised speech laden with anti-Western rhetoric.
He accused the West of trying to divide Russia with lies, and railed against those he called "traitors" inside of Russia.
"Of course, they will try to bet on the so-called fifth column, on traitors — on those who earn their money here, but live over there. Live, not in the geographical sense, but in the sense of their thoughts, their slavish thinking," Mr Putin said.
The term "fifth column" is often used for a group that tries to undermine a nation or organization from the inside.
"Any people, and especially the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish the true patriots from the scum and the traitors, and just to spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths," Putin said. Such a "self-purification" of society would strengthen Russia, he added.
Putin also accused the West of trying to provoke civil conflict with the goal of "the destruction of Russia".
His speech was greeted with concern by some Russia-watchers and journalists.
Tatiana Stanovaya, a political analyst, told the New York Times that Putin was signaling authorities across Russia to target "all spheres of society that show any sympathy to the Western way of life".
Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Russian Prime Minister who also worked in Putin's first government before becoming one of his fiercest critics, tweeted that Putin "is intensifying his actions to destroy Russia".
He is "essentially announcing the start of mass repressions against those who don't agree with the regime," Kasyanov wrote. "This has happened in our history before, and not only ours." — BBC


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