Joe Biden calls Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”. Responding to a journalist, the American president dropped, about his Russian counterpart: “He is a war criminal”. “Unacceptable and unforgivable” remarks, replied the Kremlin. Shortly before, Joe Biden had confirmed that his country would provide an additional $800 million in military aid to kyiv, an “unprecedented” $1 billion envelope in one week to support its army.
A theater housing civilians hit by a Russian strike. A theater housing “hundreds of civilians” was badly damaged by a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, announced the town hall of this besieged port city in southeastern Ukraine. “Russia deliberately destroyed the Drama Theater, where hundreds of people are housed,” wrote the town hall in a statement posted on Telegram messaging.
The Russian anti-war muse refuses Macron’s asylum offer. Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova, who became an anti-war muse after appearing on a pro-Kremlin newscast to denounce the offensive in Ukraine, refused French President Emmanuel Macron’s offer of asylum because she “does not want to leave ” his country.