Australia and New Zealand have condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalation of the war in Ukraine, saying his threats to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia were “unthinkable” and exposing his justifications for the war as false. Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first military mobilization since World War II, shocking citizens in what Western countries described as an act of desperation in the face of a losing war effort, and announced moves to annex parts of Ukrainian territory while threatening to use nuclear weapons. defend Russia.
“These threats are unthinkable and irresponsible. His claims about defending Russia’s territorial integrity are false. No sham referendum will make them true,” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in New York, where she is attending the UN General Assembly. “Only Russia is responsible for this illegal and immoral war, and peace must first be on Russia’s side to withdraw from Ukrainian territory,” she added.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern strongly condemned the Russian escalation, saying Putin’s claim that he might use more weapons “flies in the face of the lie that they said they were there to liberate others”. “This highlights the untruth surrounding this war,” she told media in New York, where she is attending the UN General Assembly. “What’s happening in Ukraine is illegal, it’s immoral, it’s causing a loss of civilian life, and those losses could continue if, as Putin has claimed, he expands the types of weapons he’s using in this war,” she added.
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