White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden was "speaking from his heart" after seeing images on television of "barbaric actions by a brutal dictator through his invasion of a foreign country." administration had avoided using the phrase until now, even when asked directly. "I think he is a war criminal," Biden told reporters on March 16. President Joe Biden has for the first time called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" over the Russian president's bloody invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Based on reporting by AP, AFP, dpa, and BBC Some 400 staff and patients are still being held inside a Mariupol hospital, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. Ukraine's strategic port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov has been encircled by Russian forces, with an estimated 300,000 people trapped with no running water, electricity or gas. It gave no evidence to back up the claim. The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Azov Battalion, a far-right Ukrainian militia, of blowing up the theater. Russians could not have not known this was a civilian shelter," Kuleba tweeted.ĭespite ample, concrete evidence of Russian attacks on civilian areas documented by reporters, including RFE/RL correspondents on the ground, Moscow denies targeting civilian areas. Massive Russian attack on the Drama Theatre where hundreds of innocent civilians were hiding. "Another horrendous war crime in Mariupol. The number of casualties is currently unknown, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted.Ĭity authorities are trying to establish the number of casualties but said they are being hampered by continued Russian shelling in nearby neighborhoods. Up to 1,200 people may have been inside the theater, the city's deputy mayor Serhiy Orlov said. Russia has destroyed a historic theater in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol which was being used as a bomb shelter by hundreds of civilians, Ukrainian authorities said on March 16.
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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis sent a message of condolence expressing "deep regret and full compassion for the loss of life of seven soldiers." With reporting by AFP and Reuters
No information linked the crashes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Certainly, there were unfavorable weather conditions, but we can't comment now," he told Digi24 television, adding that two commissions of inquiry had been set up. "It is premature to discuss possible causes. The pilot of the helicopter reported adverse weather conditions and had been ordered to return to base, Spanu said. All seven members of the crew died, Defense Minister Vasile Dincu said early on March 3.ĭefense Ministry spokesman Constantin Spanu said the fighter jet had not yet been found, but witnesses cited in Romanian media said they saw an explosion in the area where it disappeared from the radar. The remains of the helicopter and those on board were later discovered. It had been sent to search for the fighter jet, a MiG-21 Lancer, which had taken off earlier and lost contact with the control tower and disappeared from radar three minutes after taking off around 8 p.m. The IAR 330-Puma helicopter crashed in the area of Gura Dobrogei, about 10 kilometers from the airfield.
Seven Romanian soldiers died on March 2 when their helicopter crashed in eastern Romania while searching for a missing fighter jet, the Defense Ministry said.
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