Former British Prime Minister David Cameron said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “effectively a war criminal,” and stressed that the UK should “do its job economically, just as the Ukrainian armed forces are doing their job militarily.” are.” are “Huh.”
Cameron urges US, UK, European countries and other countries not to get involved Upcoming G20 Summit In Bali, Indonesia, in November, if Putin is invited and able to attend.
It’s unimaginable, you know, for an American president to have to sit next to someone who is effectively a war criminal. who are indiscriminately bombing and shelling civilians in their homes and schools and hospitals. It must be unimaginable,” he told CNN’s John Berman,
Cameron said Britain “must do everything” to help Ukraine aside from military action, including mounting pressure on Russia with sanctions.
“We also have to understand that when we can’t keep our troops inside, and when we can’t operate a no-fly zone for fear of widening this conflict, we must do everything we can.” Huh.” Huh, are,” Cameron said.
Cameron also details two occasions during his tenure when he believed President Putin “told a flat lie.” He said the international community must do “justice” [Russia] by their deeds. Don’t believe what they say.”
“I remember he lied about the presence of Russian troops in the Donbass in 2014,” Cameron said. “Another occasion was about the fate of the Malaysian airliner MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine.”
Some background: Cameron’s statement comes nearly two weeks after US President Joe Biden also called putin A “war criminal.”
It was the harshest condemnation of Putin’s actions by any US official since the war in Ukraine on 24 February. Earlier, Biden had refrained from labeling land atrocities in Ukraine as a “war crime”, citing ongoing international and US investigations into Ukraine. , ,
But on March 16, speaking to reporters at an unrelated event, Biden stuck the designation on the Russian leader, saying, “I think he’s a war criminal.”
However, other Western leaders have been more reticent in their condemnation of Putin.
In early March, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Russia’s actions in Ukraine qualified “as a war crime”, but did not refer to Putin himself as a war criminal.
CNN’s Sam Fossum, Kevin Liptak, Gabby Gretner and Sarah Diab contributed reporting to this post.