London, March 2 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Johnson said this during Prime Minister’s Questions, where he accused the Russian military of bombing innocent civilians which he said qualified as ‘war crimes’. Johnson was responding to the Scottish National Party’s Ian Blackford, who called for Putin to be prosecuted. Johnson is the second head of state to formally accuse Putin of committing ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did so on Tuesday after Russian air strikes on the country’s second city, Kharkiv. A week in to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, attacks on key Ukrainian cities have intensified, with fighting raging in the north, east and south and several cities being besieged by Russian forces. On Tuesday, Boris Johnson had described the tactics of the Russian military under orders from President Putin as “barbaric and indiscriminate”. ACL2319
