Joining the two-day NATO meeting in Belgium, Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said the world must push back against authoritarian states.
The US, with the G7 and the EU, have imposed a further round of severe and immediate economic sanctions on the Putin regime - including his daughters.
Reports have emerged that more than 400 people are missing from the former Russian-occupied town of Hostomel, near Kyiv.The United States, with the G7 and the EU has imposed a further round of severe and immediate economic sanctions on the Putin regime - including his daughters - for suspected war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine.
She said the summit of NATO allies, as well as the alliance’s Asia-Pacific partners –Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea - came at a “critical time”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described atrocities in towns outside the capital Kyiv as “war crimes” and “genocide”, as authorities said close to more than 4400 incidents were being investigated.
Reports have also emerged that more than 400 people are missing from the former Russian-occupied town of Hostomel, near Kyiv. But the German government said that satellite pictures from last month provided strong counter evidence against Russian denials of involvement in civilian deaths. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss last week announced sanctions on Russian state media organisations including RT and Sputnik. She said Putin’s “war on Ukraine is based on a torrent of lies”.The United Nations refugee agency announced that 4.3 million Ukrainians had fled across the borders since the war began on February 24 - a figure up 34,194 since Tuesday.
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