Emmanuel Macron, French president, has declined to endorse the accusation by his US counterpart Joe Biden that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was guilty of “genocide” in Ukraine.
His caution echoes that of other European leaders who have instead called for a full investigation of potential war crimes by Moscow.
Biden on Tuesday said Putin “declares war and commits genocide a half a world away”, before saying it was for lawyers to draw a final conclusion. He said he used the term because it was “clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian . . . The evidence is mounting.”
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