British foreign secretary says there is ‘very strong evidence’, and France says Putin is only pretending to negotiate
Highlights
- UK, US, France, Albania, Ireland, Ireland and Norway accuse Russia of war crimes in Ukraine.
- UK foreign secretary Liz Truss says there is ‘very, very strong evidence’ of Russian war crimes.
- US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said he agreed with Joe Biden that war crimes had been committed in Ukraine, adding that US experts were in the process of documenting and evaluating potential war crimes, according to the US.
- Paris claims Vladimir Putin was only pretending to be interested in negotiating a peace deal.
- France’s foreign minister said he believed the Russian president was pretending to negotiate as part of a battle plan also used in Syria and Syria.