White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that “we have only seen the tip of the iceberg” with regard to the latest images of the Bucha massacre and that “probably” in other parts of the country Russian forces “have also committed atrocities” that we have not yet known.
Psaki pointed out at a press conference that “the horrible photos” of Bucha “are not the first violations of war crimes or atrocities we have seen on the ground.” “We continue to evaluate and make decisions, additional consequences and steps that we can implement,” he added.
Despite this, the White House spokeswoman has assured that the United States' intention “is not regime change,” since “it has not been and still is not” Washington's policy. “We are not asking for regime change. But he is someone who has committed atrocities against the people of his country; he is an outcast in the world,” he said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba also used the same words on Monday, when he said that the discovery of civilians killed in the town of Bucha, outside Kiev, was just “the tip of the iceberg”.
“The horrors we have seen in Bucha are just the tip of the iceberg of crimes perpetrated by the Russian army,” Kuleba said at a joint press conference with British Foreign Minister Liz Truss from Warsaw.
NEW SANCTIONS PACKAGE
On the other hand, Psaki reported that, in coordination with the G7 and the European Union, the United States is preparing “a comprehensive additional package” of sanctions aimed at economically, financially and technologically isolating Russia.
“This will include a ban on all new investments in Russia, increased sanctions on financial institutions and state-owned enterprises in Russia, and sanctions on Russian government officials and their families,” Psaki explained.
Thus, these new sanctions “will degrade the key instruments of Russian state power, impose acute and immediate economic damage to Russia, and hold the Russian kleptocracy that finances and supports Putin's war accountable.”
As noted by the US network CNN, this nine US sanctions package in coordination with the G7 and the European Union will be announced this Wednesday, as a Biden Administration official has specified.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed on Tuesday an embargo on the import of coal from Russia, as part of the new round of European sanctions for the massacre of civilians in Ukraine.
Among the measures, sanctions on the Russian energy sector are for the first time, although for the time being Brussels does not propose to touch gas or Russian oil, due to the differences between the Twenty-Seven.
Von der Leyen has argued that the measure will have an impact of 4 billion euros per year corresponding to the value of Moscow's annual imports of coal to the EU, an item that represents an important source of revenue for Russia.
(With information from Europa Press)
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