Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy calls Russia a “terrorist” state in the UN; Biden pays tribute to NATO agreements for Finland and Sweden – live | Ukraine
Nadeem Badshah
Boris Johnson has claimed it Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he was a woman and considers war to be a “perfect example of toxic masculinity.”
In an interview with German media follows G7 summit in Elmau CastleThe Prime Minister cited the gender of the Russian president as a contributing factor to the conflict.
Johnson told the TV channel ZDF“If Putin was a woman, which he obviously is not, if he were, then I really do not think he would have started a crazy, macho war of invasion and violence in the way he has done.
“If you want a perfect example of toxic masculinity, that’s what he does in Ukraine.”
I write these words from Australia.
This, below, is … well … comprehensive: many of Australia’s finest and most useful exports are included, including New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe.
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Dan Sabbagh has submitted from Madrid on NATO top:
A last minute agreement has been reached between Turkey, Finland and Sweden to let the two Nordic countries be NATO members on the eve of the military alliance summit in Madrid.
But at UN Security Council, China has had this to say about NATO’s history … to say that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has its origins in NATO’s expansion to the east.
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Martin Belam
Shocking CCTV movies have surfaced of people spending a summer day in a peaceful park suddenly running for their lives after a Russian cruise missile attack on a nearby mall sent debris into the air.
The CCTV pictures were taken from a park opposite the mall in Kremenchuk who were hit on Monday, in an attack that claimed at least 18 lives and led to a lengthy search in the rubble for survivors and bodies.
Summary
Hello, welcome to today’s ongoing coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine. It’s just past 7 in the morning Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, and here is a summary of the latest developments:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of becoming “a terrorist” leading a “terrorist state”. and called for Russia’s expulsion from the UN. In a virtual speech to the UN Security Council, Zelenskiy called on the UN to set up an international tribunal to investigate “Russian occupiers’ actions on Ukrainian soil” and hold the country accountable.
- Zelenskiy said urgent action was needed “to get Russia to stop the assassination attempt”, which warns that Russia’s “terrorist activities” will otherwise spread to other countries and point out the Baltic states and Poland.
- The President of Ukraine also called on the UN to visit the site of a missile attack on a shopping mall in the town of Kremenchuk. “I suggest that the UN send either a special representative or the UN Secretary-General … so that the UN can independently find out information and see that this was really a Russian missile attack,” he said of Monday’s attack that killed at. at least 18 people.
- Rescue workers continued to work through the devastation left after the strike Kremenchukwith dozens of people still missing.
- The Russian army claimed on Tuesday that it had hit a nearby weapons depot with the explosion that triggered the fire. at the mall, which according to Moscow “was not in operation” at the time.
- All 15 members of the Security Council, including Russia, stood in silence for a minute after Zelenskiy asked them to “remind all Ukrainians who have been killed in this war.”
- Russia’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, told the Council that Zelensky’s video had undermined the body’s authority.. “The UN Security Council should not be turned into a platform for a remote public relations campaign for President Zelenskiy to get more weapons from the participants in the NATO summit,” Polyanskiy said.
- During the NATO summit, Turkey, Finland and Sweden signed a trilateral memorandumpaves the way forward for the two Nordic countries to join the alliance. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, said on Tuesday evening: “I am pleased to announce that we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO.”
- The agreement means that Finland and Sweden will lift theirs arms embargochange of their laws on terrorism, support Turkey in its conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (YKK) and stop supporting the party’s Syrian affiliates of the People’s Protection Forces (YPG)
- World leaders welcomed the trilateral agreement. US President Joe Biden described the deal as “a decisive step towards a NATO invitation to Finland and Sweden, which will strengthen our alliance and strengthen our collective security.” Boris Johnson tweeted: “Fantastic news when we start the NATO summit. Sweden and Finland’s membership will make our brilliant alliance stronger and more secure.”
- Ukrainian forces will try to keep the line towards Russia in the east from the vantage point of the city of Lysychanskbuy time for the arrival of Western weapons and the region’s defenders to prepare fortifications, said the governor of Luhansk province.
- Russia is once again shelling Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and cracking down on apartment buildings and a primary school, the regional governor said. The shelling killed five people and injured 22 including children.
- Russia-based officials in Ukraine’s Kherson region said their security forces had detained Kherson city mayor Ihor Kolykhayev on Tuesday after refusing to follow Moscow’s orders, while a local Kherson official said the mayor was abducted, Reuters reported. “I can confirm that Kolykhayev was detained by the office of the commander (military police),” Ekaterina Gubareva, the Moscow-appointed deputy head of the Kherson region, told the Telegram messaging app. The reports could not be immediately verified independently and there was no official confirmation from Ukrainian authorities.