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Evidence of Russian War Crimes are now surfacing over the lands that the Ukrainians have won back. Mass graves have been found, people dead in the streets and basements of buildings. There have been reports of children being tortured and parents killed in front of their children. The stories that are now being told are of the worst kind imaginable, and the Russians will pay for what they have done.

President Joe Biden said Monday that evidence needs to be gathered to put Russian leader Vladimir Putin on trial for war crimes related to his nation’s invasion of Ukraine. “He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin, on the heels of reports of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops in the town of Bucha, northwest of Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. “This guy is brutal,” Biden said. “He should be held accountable.”

Biden says killings in Bucha are "outrageous," calls for war crimes trial against Putin

Ukrainian police posted on Facebook that they had conducted a “clearing op” in Bucha the day before videos emerged showing dead bodies scattered around the settlement, as the war of words over the alleged “war crime” continues. NATO powers and pro-Ukraine commentators have seized upon the alleged atrocity in a bid to escalate the war, with MSNBC hosts and guests even asserting that it justifies directly attacking Russia and putting American boots on the ground in Ukraine. MSNBC host Ali Velshi demanded “direct military involvement,” something that would almost inevitably kick off World War III, in response to the alleged...