After meeting with Penny Wong, foreign minister Edgars Rinkēvičs says he will call on European Union to also support sanction
, on Monday, outlining his concerns about Russia’s aggression while urging the west to boost military support.
Rinkēvičs said he had raised Latvia’s position in his meeting with Wong, and would continue to make the case, which is also being pushed by Ukraine’s president,Wong said the meeting had emphasised the Australian government’s commitment to holding Russia to account for “its illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine”.
Zelenskiy decried “hundreds, thousands of military crimes” and Russian atrocities in the illegal invasion of Ukraine. These included “mass execution of a peaceful population, handcuffing people, put them on their knees, kill them with a shot on their back; and [raping] them in front of the eyes of their own children”.
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