Blinken invokes Putin's dead brother in accusing Russia of 'starving' Ukraine's cities

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These sieges echoed Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad, Blinken said, where Nazi forces "systematically starved and intentionally destroyed" the city, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, Blinken said.

"That siege affected millions of Russian families, including President Putin's, whose one-year-old brother was one of the many victims. Now, Russia is starving out cities like Mariupol. It is shameful. The world is saying to Russia stop these attacks immediately. Let the food and medicine in. Let the people out safely, and end this war of choice against Ukraine," he said.

Putin's older brother Viktor died of diphtheria during the siege of Leningrad before Putin was born. Putin has claimed his "special military operation" in Ukraine is about "de-Nazifying" the country's government, a lie that Holocaust museums and memorials have denounced as warping history -- including the Babyn Yar memorial in Kyiv that was damaged by Russian shelling.

Blinken has previously invoked his own family history to condemn Putin's claim, as his stepfather was renowned writer and lawyer Samuel Pisar, who survived the Holocaust.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blinken-invokes-putins-dead-brother-accusing-russia-starving/story?id=83298231

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