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United States Foreign Secretary Liz Truss tells UN Putin has 'blood on his hands'
Vladimir Putin has "blood on his hands" and "nothing and no one is off the table" as Britain and allies hit Russia with sanctions, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has told the UN.
Speaking in Geneva at the intergovernmental body's Human Rights Council, the Cabinet Minister lashed out at Moscow's continued assault in Ukraine, where civilians and children are being killed as Russia advances on Kyiv.
Ms Truss said the Kremlin was responsible for scores of civilian casualties and over 500,000 people fleeing Ukraine.
She said: "The consequences of Vladimir Putin ’s unjustified aggression are horrific. Russian troops are laying siege to once peaceful cities.
“Tanks are tearing through towns while missiles barrage homes and hospitals. Putin is murdering Ukrainians indiscriminately. There is blood on his hands, not just of innocent Ukrainians but the men he sent to die.
“ Putin is violating international law, including the UN Charter. He is violating human rights on an industrial scale and the world will not stand for it.
“There are no shades of grey to this conflict. It is about right and wrong. This is Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war, against a sovereign nation. There can be no apologising or excusing it.
“I urge nations to condemn Russia’s appalling actions, and to isolate it on the international stage."
She told delegates “nothing and no one is off the table” in targeting Moscow with sanctions.
“We’re using our collective heft, making up over half the world’s economy to cut funding from Putin’s war machine and we’re delivering severe economic costs through these sanctions as ordinary Russians are finding form queues at their local banks and rising interest rates," she said.
“These consequences will only increase in breadth and severity as the conflict goes on, we’re working to squeeze the Putin regime harder and harder by steadily tightening the vice.
“We’re going after the highest echelons of the Russian elite, targeting President Putin personally and all of those complicit in his aggression. Nothing and no one is off the table.”
It came as the Prince of Wales has said the values of democracy are under attack in Ukraine in the “most unconscionable way”, adding “we are in solidarity with all those who are resisting brutal aggression”.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson was in Poland, where a Ukrainian journalist made an emotional appeal to the Prime Minister to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians in the country.
Daria Kaleniuk, the executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre civil society organisation, told the PM at a press conference in Warsaw she is from Kyiv but passed through the border in recent days.
“Ukrainian women and Ukrainian children are in deep fear because of bombs and missiles which are going from the sky. Ukrainian people are desperately asking for the rights to protect our sky, we are asking for a no-fly zone," she said.
“What’s the alternative for the no-fly zone?
“Nato is not willing to defend because Nato is afraid of World War Three but it’s already started and it’s Ukrainian children who are there taking the hit.
“You are talking about more sanctions Prime Minister but Roman Abramovich is not sanctioned, he’s in London, his children are not in the bombardments, his children are there in London.”
The PM told her: “I’m acutely conscious that there is not enough that we can do, as the UK Government, to help in the way that you want and I’ve got to be honest about that.
“When you talk about the no-fly zone, as I said to (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Zelensky a couple of times, unfortunately the implication of that is the UK would be engaged in shooting down Russian planes, it would be engaged in direct combat with Russia.
“That’s not something that we can do or that we’ve envisaged. The consequences of that would be truly very, very difficult to control.”
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