Scott Morrison was “very concerned” about China’s “act of intimidation” in using a laser on an Australian surveillance aircraft.
It was during an otherwise civil exchange with German chancellor Olaf Scholz this week that Vladimir Putin dropped the g-word.
From media figures to top diplomats, this last week has seen a number of prominent Russians invoke the baseless idea that the Ukrainian government is perpetrating a “genocide” against the hundreds and thousands of ethnic Russians living in its east. Alexander Bastrykin, the committee’s chief, insisted there was an “obvious intention to eliminate residents of the Donbas.”
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the US, was quick to push back. “I’m enraged and upset. How else can you call Ukraine shelling of residential areas by multiple rocket launchers?” he said on Friday. That invasion was met with jubilation in Russia, partly because state TV had bombarded viewers with anti-Ukrainian propaganda for months, peddling outright lies about Ukrainian neo-Nazis plotting to come and massacre the peninsula’s ethnic Russians.
Eight years of conflict in the Donbas have further obliterated the Kremlin’s claims. The current frontline cuts across the largely Russian-speaking east and does not follow an ethnic or a language divide.
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