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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 5 april 2022
Biden: Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha killings

By A. MADHANI, Z. MILLER day that he would con-
and C. MEGERIAN tinue to add sanctions but
Associated Press did not detail what sectors
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- the U.S. may target next.
dent Joe Biden on Monday Sullivan said the additional
called for a war crimes trial sanctions would come this
against Russia President week.
Vladimir Putin and said After unveiling an ava-
he’d seek more sanctions lanche of sanctions in the
after reported atrocities in first weeks of the war, ad-
Ukraine. ministration officials in re-
“You saw what happened cent days have put more
in Bucha,” Biden said. He focus on closing loopholes
added that Putin “is a war that Russia might try to use
criminal.” to avoid sanctions.
Biden’s comments to re- European Commission Pres-
porters came after Ukraine ident Ursula von der Leyen
President Volodymyr Zelen- tweeted Monday that the
skyy visited Bucha, one of European Union will send
the towns surrounding Kyiv investigators to Ukraine to
where Ukrainian officials help the local prosecutor
say the bodies of civilians general “document war
have been found. Zelen- crimes.”
skyy called the Russian President Joe Biden speaks to the media at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Monday, April 4, 2022, as he A Russian law enforce-
actions “genocide” and returns to Washington and the White House after spending the weekend in Wilmington, Del. ment agency says it has
Associated Press
called for the West to apply launched its own investi-
tougher sanctions against calling the actions geno- Bucha, northwest of the a stronger-than-expected gation into allegations that
Russia. “We do not believe cide. “We have seen atroc- capital. “We have to con- defense by Ukrainians sup- Ukrainian civilians were
that this is just a random ities, we have seen war tinue to provide Ukraine ported by Western allies. massacred in suburbs of
accident, or the rogue act crimes, we have not yet with the weapons they Sullivan said “the Russians Kyiv that were held by Rus-
of a particular individual,” seen a level of systematic need to continue the fight. have now realized that sian troops, focusing on
said U.S. national secu- deprivation of life of the And we have to gather all the West will not break” what it calls “false informa-
rity adviser Jake Sullivan of Ukrainian people to rise to the detail so this can be an in its support of the Ukrai- tion” about Russian forces.
the images of bound civil- the level of genocide,” Sul- actual -- have a war crimes nian government. But he The Investigative Com-
ians killed. He noted the livan said. trial,” Biden said. warned that Russia was re- mittee claims Ukrainian
U.S. had warned that Rus- The bodies of 410 civilians Biden lashed out at Putin doubling its offensive in oth- authorities made the al-
sia would seek to imprison have been removed from as “brutal.” “What’s hap- er parts of the country after legations “with the aim of
or kill dissidents or others it Kyiv-area towns that were pening in Bucha is outra- pulling many troops from discrediting Russian troops”
viewed as threats to its at- recently retaken from Rus- geous and everyone sees around the capital of Kyiv. and that those involved
tempted occupation of sian forces, Ukraine’s prose- it,” Biden added. White House officials said should be investigated over
Ukraine. “We believe that cutor-general, Iryna Vene- Sullivan said Monday that talks about ramping up possible breaches of a new
this was part of the plan,” diktova, said. Associated Russia was shifting its fo- new sanctions against Russian law banning what
he added. Press journalists saw the cus in its war in Ukraine to Russia intensified after re- the government deems to
Biden and U.S. officials, bodies of at least 21 peo- the country’s east and ports of alleged atrocities be false information about
however, stopped short of ple in various spots around south, after experiencing emerged. Biden said Mon- its forces.q

Medicare enrollees to get free

COVID-19 tests at drug stores

By RICARDO ALONSO- Medicare has lagged pri- omicron wave this winter
ZALDIVAR vate insurance in following caused the biggest spike
Associated Press the Biden administration’s yet in virus cases, straining
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid directive to cover at-home many hospitals to the limit.
worries that the latest coro- tests because rules and Since then, cases nation-
navirus variant could spark regulations stood in the ally have rapidly dropped
another rise in cases, Medi- way, and officials had to to the lowest level since
care announced Monday find a work-around. This is before last summer’s delta
that millions of enrollees the first time the health in- surge. Coronavirus restric-
will finally have access to surance program for older tions have been largely lift-
free over-the-counter CO- people and those with dis- ed. But some areas where
VID-19 tests at drug stores. abilities has covered an BA.2 took hold early are
More than 59 million peo- over-the-counter test at no seeing increasing cases. A home COVID-19 test kit is held, Feb. 3, 2022, in Seattle.
ple with Medicare’s “Part cost to recipients. Monday’s announcement Associated Press
B” outpatient coverage Medicare’s move could followed another precau- ened immune systems. ant Company, Hannaford
will be able to get up to turn out to be prescient. tionary move last week, National pharmacy chains Pharmacies, H-E-B Phar-
eight free at-home tests The BA.2 omicron variant when government health participating in Medicare’s macy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy,
per month, or enough for now accounts for more officials authorized a sec- give-away include: Albert- Kroger Family of Pharma-
an individual to test twice than half of U.S. cases, hav- ond round of booster shots sons Companies, Inc., Cost- cies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop
a week, as some doctors ing rapidly overtaken the for people 50 and older as co Pharmacy, CVS, Food & Stop, Walgreens and
have recommended. original strain. That initial well as those with weak- Lion, Giant Food, The Gi- Walmart.q