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Accusing Russia of ‘genocide’, Biden to send more military aid to Ukraine

Journalists gather as bodies are exhumed from a mass grave in the grounds of the St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints church in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 13, 2022. The European Commission President visited the mass grave in Bucha on April 8, where Russian forces are accused by Ukraine's allies of carrying out atrocities against...

DNIPRO, Ukraine — President Joe Biden and other Western leaders pledged additional military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, while Russia sharply rejected the president’s description of its wartime acts as “genocide.”

After an hourlong call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Biden announced his administration was authorizing an additional $800 million in weapons, ammunition and other security assistance to Ukraine.

Biden — with the seventh week of the war drawing to a close — said the new military aid “will contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine.”

“The steady supply of weapons the United States and its allies and partners have provided to Ukraine has been critical in sustaining its

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