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    Civilian targets under heavy fire as Ukraine war enters fourth week

    by Nabih Bulos, Jaweed Kaleem and Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times Mar 17, 2022 6 minutes
    Residents remove debris from a damaged residential building Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    KYIV, Ukraine — As Russia launched an onslaught of new attacks on civilian sites across Ukraine, U.S. officials Thursday ratcheted up their criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his apparent responsibility for potential war crimes.

    U. S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken denounced Russian attacks that included hits on a school and a theater where more than 1,000 people had been sheltering.

    “Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime,” Blinken told journalists in Washington. “After all the destruction of the past three weeks, I find it difficult to conclude that the Russians are doing otherwise.”

    Blinken said the State Department has begun a legal process to document potential war crimes, noting that any formal accusation of crimes against humanity — which would likely be brought before The Hague — is separate from the personal opinions voiced by himself and Biden.

    His comments came as deaths across Ukraine were mounting. Ukrainian and international officials have said that thousands of people

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