US Attorney General Merrick Garland says he's investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said"we have seen the mass graves" in Ukraine.US President Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a"war criminal" earlier this week.The US Justice Department is assisting international efforts to examine possible war crimes committed in Russia's war on Ukraine, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Wednesday, declaring that"we have seen the mass graves" and bombed buildings.
"The world sees what is happening in Ukraine. The Justice Department sees what is happening in Ukraine," he added. Garland on Wednesday said the Justice Department has a"long history" of helping to hold alleged war criminals accountable. He invoked a former attorney general and Supreme Court justice, Robert Jackson, who served as the chief American prosecutor at the post-World War II Nuremberg trials.
Asked if he was calling for the creation of a Nuremberg-style tribunal, Garland said,"I'm not calling for anything at this time. Right now we're in the collection of evidence stage."
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