Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia reserves the right to take further action against Russia.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia has to take a tough stance against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to deter countries like China from making similar military incursions into other sovereign nations.
“I think it is important for like-minded countries to take the strongest possible action, because one day it’s a country like Russia threatening the border and seeking to invade Ukraine, and the next it could be countries in our own region seeking to do the same thing,” Mr Morrison said. Mr Morrison also accused Russia’s embassy in Australia of spreading nonsense and engaging in bullying.The Russian ambassador, Alexey Pavlovsky, met with the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kathryn Campbell, on Wednesday afternoon following the announcement of sanctions but was not told to leave the country, Mr Morrison said.
“They’re not peacekeepers. They’re invaders. That’s how we see and we’ll call it out. If they don’t like it, that’s tough,” he said. “There is no justification for Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and any attempt to create some pretext for it is offensive.“in response to what world leaders called an invasion of Ukraine’s sovereignty as fears grow that Moscow will launch a wider offensive against the country.
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