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Russia-Ukraine war latest news: Ukrainians paying for ‘weak’ sanctions with their lives, says Zelenskiy; peace talks set to begin
Ukraine president tells world leaders ‘fear makes you an accomplice’ ahead of face-to-face peace talks in Turkey on Tuesday; Kremlin spokesman Peskov compares sanctions to ‘war’ but says ‘no one is thinking about using’ nuclear weapons
Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 34 of the Russian invasionSanctions on trade and oligarchs akin to ‘total war’ against Russia: KremlinRussia and Ukraine likely to start face-to-face talks on TuesdayUS president Joe Biden stands by ‘Putin cannot remain in power’ remarkKremlin ‘disrespecting soldiers’ families over stalled return of bodies’In case you missed Joe Biden’s earlier remarks regarding his comments in Warsaw, you can watch the video from his press conference below.
During an appearance in Poland at the weekend, Biden said that Russian president Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power”, which then prompted hurried efforts by other senior figures in the administration to play down the comment in the face of international criticism.
Ukraine cannot and will not agree with the passive sanctions position of some entities towards Russia. There should be no ‘suspended’ sanctions packages - that if the Russian troops do something, then there will be some answer...
We went through this story last year when we said that strong preventive sanctions against Russia were needed to prevent an invasion. The preventive package was not made. A full-scale war has begun.
Just think about what it all came down to. Waiting for chemical weapons... We, living people, have to wait… Doesn’t everything that the Russian military is doing and has already done deserve an oil embargo? Don’t phosphorus bombs deserve that? Do the shelled chemical production or nuclear power plant deserve that?
If the sanctions packages are weak or do not work enough, if they can be circumvented, it creates a dangerous illusion for the Russian leadership that they can continue to afford what they are doing now. And Ukrainians pay for it with their lives. Thousands of lives.”
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