War far from over, Bucha killings ‘punch to the gut’: US on Russian attacks

In an appearance on ABC News’ ‘This Week’, US President Joe Biden‘s White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said that the war in Ukraine is “far from over,” adding that it is likely that Russia’s de-escalation is only a strategy of redeployment and relaunching the attack. 

 “I think the Ukrainians are winning the war around Kyiv and in the northern part of the country. And that’s tremendous credit to the fighting they’ve done and to the support that the United States and our NATO allies have provided them. We send weapons into Ukraine almost every single day,” Klain told ABC in the interview.

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“But I think we have to be very clear. I think there’s a lot of evidence that Putin is simply taking his troops out of the northern part of the country to redeploy them to the eastern part of the country to relaunch a battle there. So I think there have been victories for the Ukrainians so far, but this war, sadly, is far from over,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, Russia’s atrocities in the Ukrainian city of Bucha has sparked massive outrage. 

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Sunday that AFP’s images of dead civilians scattered on the streets of Bucha is a “punch to the gut”, adding that the State Department is ready to document war crimes by Russian perpetrators. 

“You can’t help but see these images as a punch to the gut. Since the aggression, we’ve come out and said that we believe that Russian forces have committed war crimes, and we’ve been working to document that, to provide the information we have to the relevant instructions and organizations that will put all of this together. And there needs to be accountability for it,” Blinken said.