Biden Calls For War Crimes Trial Against Putin

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is calling for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and says he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine. Biden said Monday that Putin “is a war criminal.” His comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Zelenskyy called the Russian actions “genocide” and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia. Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the U.S. had warned that Russia would seek to imprison or kill dissidents or others it viewed as threats to its attempted occupation of Ukraine.