As President Biden headed Wednesday to a Europe with large-scale battles raging at its edge, his government formally declared that Russian forces have committed war crimes in their brutal attacks on civilians and others in Ukraine
. He cited United Nations statistics of nearly 5,000 civilians killed in the nearly monthlong war, almost half of those in Mariupol alone. The actual figures are believed to be much higher.“Putin’s forces used these same tactics in Grozny, Chechnya, and Aleppo, Syria, where they intensified their bombardment of cities to break the will of the people,” Blinken said. “Their attempt to do so in Ukraine has again shocked the world.
And some countries have invoked the concept of universal law to prosecute war criminals in their domestic courts even if the suspect and victims are of different nationalities — most recently in Germany, where a Syrian intelligence officer was convicted in January of crimes against humanity in the torture of Syrians at a Damascus detention center.
The accusation came as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said it would beef up forces along its eastern flank to deter Russia from launching an attack on any of the alliance’s member nations. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that new multinational battle groups, which normally consist of about 1,000 to 1,500 troops, would be established in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria and would remain stationed there “as long as necessary.
Also on Wednesday, NATO officials released an estimate that put the number of Russian military deaths in the Ukraine war between 7,000 and 15,000. It is difficult to make an accurate count, however, but U.S. Defense officials say Russia’s losses are much higher than its military commanders anticipated.
“Employees of the state emergency service and bus drivers have been taken captive,” Zelensky said. He described the city, where an estimated 100,000 people — about a quarter of its prewar population — remain trapped, as one suffering “inhumane conditions. In a total blockade. Without food, water, medication. Under constant shelling, under constant bombing.”
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