“We have been witnessing for weeks and certainly just in the last 24 hours atrocities of unimaginable proportion.” On a visit to Poland, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris embraces calls for an international war crimes investigation of Russia.
Speaking alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda at a press conference in Warsaw, where she is demonstrating U.S. support for NATO’s eastern flank allies, Harris expressed outrage over the bombing Wednesday of the maternity hospital and scenes of bloodied pregnant women being evacuated, as well as other attacks on civilians. She stopped short of directly accusing Russia of having committed war crimes.
. She praised the refugees for their “courage” and said the conversation would help inform U.S. assistance efforts. Already, more than 2 million refugees have fled Ukraine — with more than half coming to Poland — and even more expected to arrive in the days ahead. But differences between Warsaw and Washington over a Polish plan to send Soviet-made fighter jets to a base in Germany for Ukraine’s use have cast a shadow over Harris’ visit to Poland. Just as Harris arrived in Warsaw late Wednesday evening, the Pentagon definitivelyThe proposal was publicly floated by Poland — without first consulting the U.S.
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