{"id":222877,"date":"2022-03-18T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=222877"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T06:01:22","slug":"putin-is-a-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/putin-is-a-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin is a War Criminal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a &#8220;war criminal&#8221; , a rhetorical leap that came as civilian deaths mount in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the harshest condemnation of Putin&#8217;s actions from any US official since the war in Ukraine began three weeks ago. Previously, Biden had stopped short of labelling atrocities being documented on the ground in Ukraine as &#8220;war crimes,&#8221; citing ongoing international and US investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking with reporters at an unrelated event, Biden affixed the designation on the Russian leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I think he is a war criminal,&#8221; the President said after remarks at the White House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shift from the administration&#8217;s previous stance came after an emotional address to Congress from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who aired a video showing Ukrainians suffering amid Russia&#8217;s onslaught. Zelensky asked American lawmakers and Biden for more help defending itself, including a no-fly zone and fighter jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a &#8220;war criminal&#8221; , a rhetorical leap that came as civilian deaths mount in Ukraine. It was the harshest condemnation of Putin&#8217;s actions from any US official since the war in Ukraine began three weeks ago. Previously, Biden had stopped short of labelling atrocities being documented on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[78346,108117,108109,108194],"class_list":["post-222877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-russian-president-putin","tag-ukraine-crisis","tag-ukraine-vs-russia","tag-us-president-biden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}