US President Joe Bidens butcher remark on Russia’s Vladimir Putin alarming: Kremlin

Russia on Monday termed US President Joe
Biden’s remarks on Vladimir Putin’s regime as President of the country
“alarming”. Biden labelled Putin a “butcher” for the Ukraine war and said he “cannot remain in power”.

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Biden made the remarks while addressing a
crowd in Poland on Saturday, but US officials were quick to address the row,
saying they were not an accurate reflection of US foreign policy.

Asked about the comments, Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said, “This is a statement that is certainly alarming.” “We will
continue to track the statements of the US president in the most attentive
way,” he added.

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky,
meanwhile, signalled that he is willing to compromise to end Russia’s invasion
of Ukraine including adopting a neutral status, with peace talks set to resume
on Monday in Turkey.

Zelensky said he was prepared to discuss
neutrality as part of a peace deal with Russia but it would have to be
guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum.

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Ukraine also called for a “special
tribunal” to be established along the lines of the post-WW2 Nuremberg trials to
prosecute Russian “war criminals”.

The Ukraine government said that Russia has
“committed the crime of aggression by attacking Ukraine”, however, the
International Criminal Court cannot investigate that as neither Ukraine nor
Russia has ratified the Rome Statute, which serves as the basis for the ICC’s
work.

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“What the ICC can do, is investigate
Russia’s crimes against humanity and war crimes,” Ukraine’s Centre for
Strategic Communications and Information Security said.

“The ICC investigators are already working
in Ukraine. On March 16, Prosecutor Karim Khan personally arrived in Kyiv.”

“Ukraine can benefit from global experience
and demand the establishment of a special tribunal. What is more, the proposal
has already been signed by more than 140 leading scholars, lawyers and
politicians, including two former British PMs, Gordon Brown and John Major,” a
statement issued by the Ukraine government stated.

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“Their petition proposes a legal system
such as the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II. The idea
of creating a separate tribunal was supported by the Ukrainian Foreign
Ministry,” the statement added.