The United States announced on Tuesday the creation of a “conflict observatory”, endowed initially with six million dollars, to “collect, analyze and widely share evidence of war crimes” that it attributes to Russia in Ukraine. .

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This new initiative aims in particular to “preserve information” public or data from commercial satellites according to “international standards”, so that they can feed any procedure aimed at bringing account those responsible for “atrocities”, declared the State Department in a statement.

“An online platform will share Conflict Observatory documentation with the public, to help refute Russia’s disinformation efforts,” he added.

The United States has formally accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, particularly against civilians, and has pledged to work to hold the perpetrators, but also the sponsors, accountable.

US President Joe Biden personally called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" and a "butcher", and went further than his own government in believing that Moscow was carrying out "genocide" in Ukraine.