Russia’s foreign ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan to tell him that President Joe Biden’s comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin have pushed the two nations’ relationship to the “verge of rupture.”
Last week, Biden called the Russian president a “war criminal,” while others within his administration had not gone that far in describing the events in Ukraine. The Kremlin called the characterization “unacceptable and unforgivable.”
Russia's troops are targeting Kyiv, the capital, in the north while also trying to take control of key port cities in the south, though they've had more success with the latter, in part due to having a shorter distance to resupply and because they have already developed the infrastructure to handle it since the invasion of Crimea in 2014.
Biden's characterization of Putin came after an apparent increase in the targeting of civilian structures or of civilians themselves. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said last Thursday that what"we’ve seen most recently appear to be focused directly on civilians."
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