in the president s address last night. in his remarks today. his infrastructure law. he said he prayed with the cardinal this ash wednesday for the people of ukraine. the president isn t ready to ratchet up the rhetoric against vladimir putin. russia is committing war crimes. we are following it very closely. it s too early to say that. it s apparently not too early to say for biden s ambassador to u.n. delivering this message directly to russian soldiers. we have seen into ukraine. that includes vacuum bombs which are banned under the geneva convention. do not commit war crimes. do everything you can to put down your weapons and leave ukraine. on capitol hill, the first ukrainian born member of congress describing alleged
means to be the leader of peace. reporter: now, on president biden referring to vladimir putin as a war criminal, white house press secretary jen psaki telling reporters that he was speaking from the heart, that he was responding in part to seeing vladimir putin s barbaric actions. those are her words. we have seen in recent days u.s. officials increasingly using the language war crimes including u.n. ambassador to u.n. and some u.s. lawmakers. we should note there s a separate legal process that unfolds to determine whether somebody has committed war crimes. those investigations are ongoing. wolf. mj lee at the white house for us. thank you very much. let s go to the ukrainian capital of kyiv right now. our senior international correspondent sam kiley is on the scene. he joins us. what s the latest on the ground where you are? reporter: well, wolf, there ve been some detonations
just the fact they are standing together in this group in such an abruptly scheduled meeting. they want to send a message to putin. it s interesting. the president of the united states, secretary of state, other top officials, ambassador to u.n., they were suggesting that the russian military were committing war crimes in ukraine. now it s official. these are war crimes the russian military is committing. that s a significant development right there. exactly. it s something they held off doing for several weeks. they were gathering evidence. they weren t prepared to take that step to say that, yes, they have committed war crimes. now it s not just it would have been further with this formal announcement with the state department. some people may say president biden said this. secretary blinken said this. oftentimes when they said that they said president biden was speaking from the heart. this is a formal declaration from the united states saying that, yes, russian forces in
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