Cheney, a Republican against Trump from Wyoming, said there was no doubt that the attack that killed at least 52 people, including five children, at a packed train station in Kramatorsk on Friday was genocide. “I think. Europe needs to understand and deal with the fact that you have a genocide campaign, the first kind of horrific genocide campaign we’ve certainly seen in decades,” Cheney told CNN State of the Union. . » Friday’s attack, which took place as about 4,000 civilians were in and around the station, has been denounced by some as another war crime amid the Russian invasion of the country. Sullivan on Sunday acknowledged that the attack on the train station was a war crime. “It’s absolutely war crimes,” Sullivan told the State of the Union in a separate interview. “Europe needs to understand and deal with the fact that you have a genocide campaign,” MP Liz Cheney told CNN.Twitter/@CNNA About 4,000 civilians were in and around the station at the time of the attack. Fadel Senna / French Agency through Getty Images Ukrainian soldiers carry a victim to be placed next to other victims at the train station.Herve Bar / AFP via Getty Images “In fact, President Biden was very much in front of most of the world, saying that what Russia did and what Vladimir Putin was authorizing here was war crimes. We have seen it in Kramatorsk, Bucha and other parts of Ukraine. “The systematic targeting of civilians, the horrific murder,” he said. But Sullivan bypassed him by answering directly to host Jake Tapper when asked, “How can this not be genocide? “In my opinion, the label is less important than the fact that these acts are cruel and criminal, wrong and bad and must be answered decisively,” Sullivan said. “It simply came to our notice then. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the attack on the train station was “absolutely war crimes”, but did not call it genocide. Michael Brochstein / Sipa Ltd. Getty Images A view of the Kramatorsk train station after the rocket attack by Andrea Carrubba / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images “We are doing this not just by supporting international investigations and gathering evidence to hold perpetrators accountable to the highest levels. “We are doing this by providing sophisticated weapons to the Ukrainians who are making a big difference on the battlefield.” The UN defines genocide as acts such as murder committed with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Some legal experts say they do not use the term in Ukraine at least in part because of its strict legal definition, including that a proven case model must be established in an international court. An expert also recently noted in Politico that the term has “moral connotations” that “suggest that you need to take a stronger form of action.”
