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The president of the United States,
Joe Biden
, has accused
Vladimir Putin
of committing genocide in Ukraine, although he has clarified that he has made that statement in a personal capacity, not as a political or institutional statement.
In any case, and with whatever nuances you want, the affirmation of the US Head of State and Government is one more step in the tensions unleashed between Western democracies and Russia due to the invasion that the latter country has launched against
Ukraine
.
Ukrainian President
Volodimir Zelensky
reacted with an English-language tweet calling
Biden
's remarks "true words from a true leader."
Biden
made the statement about him when it had just been leaked to the media that Washington is studying giving
Kiev
helicopters capable of carrying anti-tank missiles, heavy artillery, and drones for coastal defense.
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Biden
launched his accusation against Putin at a rally in the state of Iowa, where he had gone to give a rally in which he tried to calm the concerns of voters about the rise in prices, which has taken the CPI to its lowest level. high since December 1981. There, addressing the public, he said: "Your family budget, your ability to fill the tank, none of that should be related to whether a dictator declares a
war
and launches a genocide in the other corner of the world" .
Later, speaking to the media at the airport in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa,
Biden
responded to questions from the press about his use of the word "genocide."
The president reaffirmed his position with an unequivocal, "yes, I called it genocide", in reference to the actions committed by
Russia
in
Ukraine
.
"It is becoming more and more clear that Putin wants to erase the idea of what it is to be Ukrainian," he explained.
The US president also insisted that if
Kiev
's troops continue to reconquer ground from
Moscow
's , or if
Russia
intensifies its offensive in eastern
Ukraine
, it will be discovered there will be more killings like those of the last few weeks.
"We are going to learn more and more about the devastation" caused by
Russia
.
Biden
's statements
represent a certain break with his own team.
National Security Adviser
Jake Sullivan
has stated, in the bureaucratic language that fascinates this man, that "we have seen atrocities. We have seen war crimes. We have not seen the level of systematic deprivation of life of people in Ukraine who arrive to the level of genocide."
Biden
's phrase
has also come about when the United States has decided to further increase the support it gives to Ukraine.
According to the Reuters news agency and
The Washington Post
, the
Biden
government is studying a new shipment of weapons from the arsenals of the armed forces worth
750 million dollars
(692 million euros), among which will be Russian and Soviet-made
Mi-17 helicopters
, with the capacity to transport up to 30 soldiers and to carry anti-tank missiles.
Other weapons with which the Pentagon is studying sending are howitzers, in what would mean the first delivery of artillery by the United States to that country in history, as well as drones for maritime defense, which could pose a new threat to the Russian fleet that maintains a naval blockade of Ukraine despite the fact that several of its ships have been sunk or damaged by the coastal defense of kyiv.
This escalation of the
war
comes as a number of countries, including Estonia and Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Great Britain and Australia, are also increasing the offensive capacity of the defense systems they deliver to
Ukraine .
.
All these countries share the idea that kyiv must be able to defend itself against the next Russian offensive and, furthermore, they are concerned that the Ukrainians will not be able to hit the Russian rear due to their lack of aerial means.
The famous 14-kilometre-long convoy that the Russian Armed Forces have deployed to bring men and material to the new front is thus invulnerable, when in theory it should be a target of air strikes.
The Ukrainians on Tuesday blew up in a commando operation a railway within the territory of Russia, 6 kilometers from the border, for which that country was sending soldiers to the front.
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