The U.S. State Department’s ambassador for global criminal justice said Monday that Washington has seen “systemic war crimes” committed by Russian forces in Ukraine and called the current situation a “new Nuremberg moment.”
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack made the comments during a special briefing.
Van Schaack said that there is growing evidence that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has been accompanied by systemic war crimes committed in every region where Russian forces have been deployed” which she said includes “deliberate, indiscriminate, and disproportionate attacks against the civilian population and elements of the civilian infrastructure.”…