*Says US President’s statement about Putin an insult to common sense
*Rogozin reminds Biden who the real war criminal is
*Kremlin says Biden calling Putin a war criminal is ‘inexcusable’
The statement of US President Joseph Biden about Vladimir Putin is an insult to common sense, Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin told RIA Novosti.
Earlier, Biden said that he considers the Russian president a “war criminal”.
But Bulin, replying Biden, said: “To accuse without an indictment and to judge without trial is already a crime. We Serbs know how it is when you are tried by executioners. Therefore, no one has ever been responsible for NATO aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and justice has not been done not because of one of our murdered child.”
Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin.
According to him, the countries that killed international law in 1999 do not have the right to refer to it.
“If it is allowed on Facebook to call for the murder of President Putin and Russians, is it then allowed to call for torture and rape? time will pass before they start doing this? Vladimir Putin is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign state and calling him a war criminal is an insult to Russia and common sense,” the head of the Serbian Interior Ministry stressed.
At the same time, in a video where journalists from the White House pool ask the American president a question on this topic, he first answers in the negative. Then, after talking with others present in the room and leaving the room, he returned and asked again. This time he answered in the affirmative.
The Kremlin called such statements unacceptable and inadmissible. As the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov emphasized, such a position does not have the right to be expressed by the head of state, which has been bombing people for many years.
On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . Vladimir Putin called its goal “the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.” According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian army, units of the DPR and LPR are developing the offensive.
Kremlin says Biden calling Putin a war criminal is ‘inexcusable’
A Kremlin spokesperson said Thursday that President Biden’s labeling of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a war criminal” is “absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the U.S. doesn’t have a track record to justify such statements.
“And most importantly, the head of state which bombed people all over the world for many years and which dropped an atomic bomb on a country that had already been defeated — I mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki — cannot have the right to make them,” Mr. Peskov added, referring to the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.
Mr. Biden on Wednesday escalated his rhetoric toward Russia by calling Mr. Putin a war criminal for the first time.
“I think he is a war criminal,” Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the president was “speaking from his heart,” and noted that the State Department has initiated a process to determine whether Mr. Putin has committed war crimes.
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a measure supporting a war crimes investigation into Mr. Putin and Russian forces.
Rogozin reminded Biden who the real war criminal is
Roskosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, in response to US President Joe Biden’s accusations against Vladimir Putin , reminded who the real war criminal is.
“Maybe Biden should be reminded who the war criminal is?” – the head of the state corporation wrote in his Telegram channel , attaching an archival video to the post, where Biden admits that it was he who proposed to bomb Belgrade in 1999 and send US Air Force pilots to destroy bridges on the Danube .
“On the edge of his grave, this bloody old man must remember his atrocities, the thousands of civilians he killed,” Rogozin concluded.
The night before, Biden, in a conversation with a journalist from the presidential pool, speaking of Putin, said that “he is a war criminal.”
The Kremlin responded that they considered “such rhetoric of the head of state, whose bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, as unacceptable and unforgivable.”
In 1999, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army , the army and the police of Serbia led to the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces . Western countries began the military operation without the approval of the UN Security Council , claiming that the Yugoslav authorities carried out ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo autonomy. The airstrikes continued from March 24 to June 10, 1999 and resulted in the death of over 2.5 thousand people, including 87 children, and in damage of $100 billion.
Sources: TASS, RIA and the news agencies
