U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 14The United States is highly likely to eventually recognize Russia's February 2022 special operation in Ukraine as genocide, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday. It took more than a century for the murder of more than 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire to be recognized as genocide by the US. on the ground, this is not an accident,» Nuland said on CNN. A senior US diplomat was also asked why, in her opinion, US sanctions do not have a deterrent effect on the Russian leadership. In response, the Deputy Secretary of State issued a statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin «does not care about his people and his country.» Previously, Biden called Russia's policy towards Ukraine «genocide», but noted that the decision on whether it can be qualified as such way from a legal point of view, lawyers should accept. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Biden's statements about the «genocide» of Ukrainians, said on Wednesday that the Kremlin considers such attempts to distort the situation unacceptable. «/>Guterres said that he did not undertake to judge whether genocide was taking place in UkraineRussia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. The main directions of the offensive of the Russian troops in the southeast, together with the units of the DPR, are the largest city of Mariupol in the Azov region and, together with the people's militia of the LPR, Severodonetsk.The Kremlin called Biden's words about the «genocide» of Ukrainians unacceptable. In April 2021, Biden officially recognized the Armenian genocide. Fearing worsening relations with Turkey, Biden's predecessors as head of state avoided using the word «genocide» in their statements. In particular, American leaders, including Donald Trump, have used the term Meds Yeghern, meaning «great atrocity,» and terms such as «one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century.» The Senate and the House of Representatives of the US Congress adopted resolutions recognizing the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide in 2019. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire carried out regular persecution and persecution of Armenians. In particular, in 1915, according to a number of historians, more than 1.5 million Armenians were killed. The fact of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire has been recognized by 23 states, as well as by the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches. In 1995, the Russian State Duma adopted a resolution «On the condemnation of the genocide of the Armenian people of 1915-1922 in their historical homeland — in Western Armenia.» Turkey traditionally rejects accusations of the Armenian genocide and reacts extremely painfully to criticism from the West on this issue. Ankara insists on abandoning the term «genocide» in relation to the events of 1915, stating that both Armenians and Turks were their victims. Turkey also calls for the establishment of an international commission of historians to study the archival documents available in the country in order to develop an objective approach to the events of the First World War. Explained Macron's refusal to call the events in Ukraine a genocide
