US President Joe Biden outside the White House in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, June 20 US President Joe Biden said that Russia is allegedly responsible for the record increase in the number of refugees in the world due to the situation in Ukraine, follows from the published message of the head of the White House.
& #34;We have recently reached a grim mark: according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, over one hundred million people are now forcibly displaced, more than at any time in history. We have already shown by hosting more than 80,000 Afghans in our country over the past year and by committing ourselves to provide temporary asylum to tens of thousands of Ukrainians that we will continue to be an example", Biden said.
Russia launched a military operation on Ukraine February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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.