Harris says Putin to face more punishment for ‘outrageous conduct on behalf of the Russian people’ in Ukraine

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday stated the U.S. will take extra motion to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin faces “critical consequence” for his “atrocious and outrageous conduct on behalf of the Russian individuals.”

President Biden and administration officers have maintained that actions to carry the Kremlin accountable for the struggle in Ukraine are “not concentrating on the individuals of Russia.” Biden informed the Russian individuals in February, “You aren’t our enemy. And I don’t imagine you need a bloody, damaging struggle in opposition to Ukraine.”

Throughout a joint press convention in Bucharest, Romania, Friday alongside Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Harris stated it’s “painful” to look at what is occurring to Ukrainians.”

RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES

“We’re clear that any intentional assault or concentrating on of civilians is a struggle crime, interval,” Harris stated.

“It’s painful to look at what is occurring to harmless individuals in Ukraine who simply wish to dwell in their very own nation and have satisfaction in themselves as Ukrainians who wish to be residence talking the language they know,” Harris stated.

KAMALA HARRIS RIPPED FOR LOOKING TO POLISH PRESIDENT FOR HELP ON QUESTION ABOUT UKRAINIAN REFUGEES

The vp maintained, although, that “diplomacy is the best way to resolve these points that coexists with our dedication to make sure that our allies are sturdy and that there have to be critical consequence and accountability for what Russia is doing.”

Harris waves as she boards the Air Power Two previous to departing for Romania, at Warsaw Chopin Worldwide Airport, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, March 11, 2022. 
(Saul Loeb/Pool Picture through AP)

Harris pointed to financial sanctions the U.S. and NATO have imposed on Russia, which have led to “the impact of principally a free fall of the ruble.”

“The Russian inventory market continues to be not open. Their credit standing is now junk,” Harris stated. “There will probably be extra bulletins about extra motion that we are going to take to make sure critical consequence for what’s atrocious and outrageous conduct on behalf of the Russian individuals by Putin.”

Harris’ remark comes after the White Home had insisted the measures taken in opposition to Putin and the Kremlin are “not concentrating on” the individuals of Russia.

When requested for clarification on Harris saying Putin is appearing “on behalf of the Russian individuals,” a White Home official informed Fox Information Digital that she “was referring to the financial measures we’re taking are focused at Putin and people complicit.” 

“That continues to be the case,” the official stated.

KAMALA HARRIS, POLAND PRESIDENT INSIST THEY’RE ‘UNIFIED’ AFTER PUBLIC DISAGREEMENT ON FIGHTER JETS FOR UKRAINE

Harris meets Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland, on March 10, 2022.
(Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto through Getty Photographs)

Earlier this month, the White Home Nationwide Safety Council condemned Putin’s strikes to close down Russian media shops, block social media and prohibit Russian entry to worldwide information shops, in addition to the Russian Federation Council’s approval of a legislation that threatened jail sentences of as much as 15 years for journalists and atypical residents that might unfold so-called “false” details about Putin’s “unconscionable” struggle in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks through the Valdai Dialogue Membership’s plenary assembly on Oct. 21, 2021, in Sochi, Russia.
( Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Photographs)

The NSC, on the time, stated it should “proceed to work with and assist all like-minded companions” and stated it “stand[s] with the sovereign nation and folks of Ukraine, and with the residents of Russia talking out in opposition to Putin’s struggle by the 1000’s.”

The Biden administration, in coordination with allies and companions, has imposed extreme financial sanctions on Russia forward of and following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, crippling the Russian economic system.

This week, the president introduced a ban on all Russian oil, gasoline and power imports to america in a transfer to focus on the “predominant artery” of Russia’s economic system.

In the meantime, as for any new sanctions from the West, Iohannis stated Romania and america “stand sturdy collectively” and “will proceed this fashion.”

“So if new sanctions will probably be essential, they are going to be mentioned and utilized,” Iohannis stated through the press convention.

“We take very significantly our function and the relationships that we’ve got inside the NATO alliance,” Harris maintained Friday. “We take significantly and are ready to behave on the phrases we communicate once we say an assault in opposition to one is an assault in opposition to all.”

She added: “We’re agency in our dedication. Once I say and we are saying over and over, President Joe Biden says, we are going to defend each inch of NATO territory.”

As for hopes for diplomacy with Russia, Harris reminded that the U.S. “has been making an attempt sincerely to have interaction in diplomacy actively.”

“From every little thing that we all know and have witnessed, Putin reveals no signal of partaking in critical diplomacy,” Harris stated.