Biden lands in Brussels for NATO summit . US president is expected to announce further Russia sanctions as NATO, G7 and EU leaders to meet to discuss Ukraine war.
US President Joe Biden arrives in Brussels, Belgium, March 23 [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuter
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The United States has determined that Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine.
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More than 4,500 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities on Wednesday through humanitarian corridors, a Ukrainian official has said.
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Russia says it will expel US diplomats in a tit-for-tat move, state media TASS has reported.
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Joe Biden has landed in Brussels ahead of NATO, G7 and EU summits.
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US president is expected to unveil further sanctions against Russia while on European trip.
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The first shipment from an $800m US arms package to Ukraine will be sent this week, a senior US defence official has said.
Russia ‘does not care’ about humanitarian crisis in Ukraine: US envoy
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN, has slammed Russia for introducing a humanitarian resolution on Ukraine, which was defeated at the Security Council.
“Russia does not care about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions or the millions of lives and dreams the war has shattered,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “If they cared, they would stop fighting. Russia is the aggressor, the attacker, the invader, the sole party in Ukraine engaged in a campaign of brutality against the people of Ukraine.”
Serious questions on war crimes in Ukraine: Expert
James Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Foundation’s Justice Initiative, has said there seems to be ample evidence that at least raises serious questions of war crimes being committed in Ukraine.
“We are seeing more and more reports of indiscriminate attacks and attacks that are deliberately targeting civilians,” Goldston told Al Jazeera from New York City.
He said while the International Criminal Court (ICC) is looking into the situation, the challenge lies in linking “responsibility to those highest authorities”.
“It is possible for the court to address the responsibility of any actor including and up to the head of state. The question is whether they can make the case,” Goldston said.
The US president is expected to announce fresh sanctions on Russia while on his European tour, while shoring up support for Ukraine among Washington’s allies.
Before his departure for Belgium,Biden told reporters as he boarded the Marine One helicopter at the White House that he sees “a real threat” of Russian chemical warfare against Ukraine.
Source: AL Jazeera and News Agencies