WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of battle crimes and known as for a trial, including to the worldwide outcry over civilian killings within the Ukrainian city of Bucha as extra graphic photos of their deaths emerged.

“You noticed what occurred in Bucha,” Biden advised reporters on the White Home. “This warrants him – he’s a battle prison.”

The invention of a mass grave and tied our bodies shot at shut vary in Bucha, exterior Kyiv, a city Ukrainian forces reclaimed from Russian troops, regarded set to provoke the USA and Europe into imposing further sanctions in opposition to Moscow.

“We now have to collect the data. We now have to proceed to offer Ukraine with the weapons they should proceed the combat. And now we have to get all of the element so this may be an precise, have a battle crimes trial,” Biden mentioned.

Putin “is brutal. And what’s taking place in Bucha is outrageous, and everybody’s seen it,” Biden mentioned as his United Nations envoy introduced Washington would search Russia’s suspension from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The Kremlin categorically denied any accusations associated to the homicide of civilians, together with in Bucha, the place it mentioned the graves and corpses had been staged by Ukraine to tarnish Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy known as the killings “genocide” in a speech from Bucha on Monday as journalists entered town and documented its destruction.

U.S. protection officers mentioned the Pentagon couldn’t independently verify the atrocities.

Biden beforehand known as Putin a battle prison following Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of its neighbor – phrases the Kremlin has mentioned additional broken U.S.-Russian ties. The U.S. Senate known as Putin a battle prison in a decision final month.

Citing what he known as “horrifying” photos, Jim Risch, the main Republican on the Senate International Relations Committee mentioned in a press release: “The worldwide neighborhood should additionally take concrete steps to carry Putin and his cronies accountable for his or her battle crimes.”

Democrat Bob Menendez, committee chairman, mentioned: “Putin should be held accountable for this tragic and barbaric assault on harmless civilians.”