U.K.’s Johnson Says Russia May Have Committed War Crimes
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ALEPPO, SYRIA - MARCH 11: Civil defense team members try to rescue people from a wreckage of a building after war crafts belonging to the Russian army carried out airstrikes on opposition controlled al-Salihiya district in Aleppo as they break the cease fire in Syria on March 11, 2016.
Photographer: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesForeign Secretary Boris Johnson said Russia may have committed war crimes in Syria, as the U.K. government joined four other world powers in warning that patience with Moscow is wearing thin.
“They are guilty of protracting this war and making it far more hideous, and yes, I think that when it comes to instances such as the bombing of civilian targets, we should be looking at whether or not that targeting is in the knowledge that those are wholly innocent civilian targets,” Johnson said in an interview on BBC Television’s “Andrew Marr Show” on Sunday. “That is a war crime.”