French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to endorse accusations by his US counterpart Joe Biden, that Russia is committing "genocide" in Ukraine – warning that verbal escalations would not help end the war. Ukraine's Volodymr Zelensky decribed France's reaction as "painful".
Biden on Tuesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces of committing genocide in Ukraine, saying it had become "clearer and clearer" that Putin was seeking "to wipe out the idea of even being able to be a Ukrainian".