The President spoke about what we all see, what he considers crystal clear in relation to the atrocities being committed on the ground.said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, when asked about comments made the other day by Joe Biden.

As he also mentioned yesterday, obviously there will be a legal process […] to formally determine if the acts committed had risen to the level of genocide, he added.

Until now, the Biden administration, in the White House, State Department or Pentagon, has carefully avoided the term. genocide.

This is the third time in less than a month that the White House has been called to clarify the U.S. president’s comments on Russia’s war in Ukraine as his rhetoric goes beyond official U.S. policy adopted by his administration.

A CNN reporter even asked Ms. Psaki if you should put an asterisk in his statements.

When the president campaigned, he promised the American people […] that he would speak to them honestly. His comments yesterday, not once, but twice, those about war crimes fully reflect this. The undoubted is the horrible: targeting civilians, hospitals, even childrenhe replied.

On Tuesday, the president used the term for the first time genocidealmost like a parenthesis, to talk about the actions of Russian troops, in a speech about inflation in a factory in Iowa.

Your family budget, your ability to fuel up, none of that should rely on a dictator declaring war and committing genocide on the other side of the world.slipped into Joe Biden.

The White House spokesman avoided questioning about a possible improvisation of his statement.

” He is the President of the United States and the leader of the free world, and he has the right to express his views whenever he wants. We must not understand who he is and where he stands on the totem pole – that is, at the very top. “

Over the past few weeks, Joe Biden has called his Russian counterpart a “war criminal,” almost on the fly, before the State Department can determine through its investigations whether Russia is committing war crimes. in Ukraine.

Out of the blue, he later claimed, at the end of a speech to American troops in Poland, that Russian President Vladimir Putin “could not stay in power.”

In both cases, the White House will have to backpedal in the following days. He himself clarified that his administration was not promoting regime change, adding that his statements reflected his own “moral anger”.

There is no united position from the West

If Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau followed in President Biden’s footsteps on Wednesday, saying we can more and more there is talk of genocideFrench President Emmanuel Macron warned of an “increase of words”.

More clearly, Polish President Andrzej Duda, who has been condemning the genocide for several days now, has argued that the word war is too weak to describe what he called terrorism.

Not surprisingly, the Kremlin on its part has expressed its disagreement categorical in the judgment made by Joe Biden.

We consider such attempts to distort the truth unacceptable, especially since they come from the President of the United States, a country whose actions in recent history are already known.answer of his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.

Bombing of civilian areas targeting schools, hospitals, day care centers and residential areas, acts of torture, intentional killing of civilians, rape, even of children: the testimonies of Ukrainian civilians and the many international media reports paint every day a horrible reality.

Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the horrors of Boutcha, in which Russians appear to have killed civilians, were gone. close to genocide.

Although they did not take this step, few countries now speak honestly about war crimes.

To have genocide, which is recognized by international law, it is necessary in particular, according toUnited NationsUNwith the intention of destroying the target group, which, experts say, is very difficult to prove.