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    Biden administration formally accuses Russia of war crimes as humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepens

    by Patrick J. McDonnell, Jaweed Kaleem and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2022 6 minutes
    The southern city is a key obstacle for Russian forces trying to move west from Crimea to take Odesa, Ukraine's major port on the Black Sea.

    LVIV, Ukraine — As President Joe 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.

    The besieged port of Mariupol was cited as one of the main pieces of evidence. On Wednesday, Ukraine said Russian forces hijacked aid missions headed to the devastated city, where one of the worst humanitarian crises of the escalating conflict has unfolded with hundreds of civilians killed and scarce supplies of food, water and medicine.

    “Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed unrelenting violence that has caused death and destruction across Ukraine,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in announcing the government’s determination in a statement released as he flew to NATO headquarters in Brussels with Biden.

    Blinken noted deadly Russian attacks on apartment buildings, hospitals, schools and shopping malls, and in Mariupol, on a maternity ward and theater

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