G7 warns of ‘extreme penalties’ if Russia makes use of nuclear weapons, Zelenskyy guidelines out talks with Putin

G7 nations warned Russia of “severe consequences” if it makes use of chemical or nuclear weapons on Ukraine because it condemned the most recent missile strikes on civilians in Kyiv and different areas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has additionally dominated out talks with Vladimir Putin within the aftermath of missile strikes.

A driver walks close to his burned automobile after Russian army strike, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in central Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo: Reuters)

By India Today Web Desk: A day after Russia rained down missiles on Ukrainian cities, Group of Seven (G7) nations met nearly to “hold Putin accountable” for its newest actions that the United Nations denounced as battle crimes.

G7 leaders on Tuesday condemned Russian missile assaults within the strongest potential phrases and pledged to satisfy Ukraine’s pressing necessities for army and defence tools. We are dedicated to supporting Ukraine in its winter preparedness wants, they mentioned in a joint assertion.

President Zelenskyy has urged G7 nations to provide air defence capabilities to Ukraine to cease Russia. The West has been supplying arms and ammunition to Ukraine because the battle started in February.

Here are the highest developments within the story.

1) At the G7 meet, Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as for robust new sanctions on Moscow and once more dominated out talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The possibilities of resolving the Russia-Ukraine battle by talks seem to have light because the day Russia annexed 15% of Ukraine and threatened the world of utilizing nukes.

2) G7 nations condemned Russia’s missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and vowed to firmly stand with Kyiv for “as long as it takes”. The G7 leaders additionally warned of “severe consequences” if Putin makes use of nuclear weapons.

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“We reaffirm that any use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons by Russia would be met with severe consequences. We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” G7 mentioned in a press release.

3) The United Nations branded the situation and timing of the Russian strikes as “shocking” and famous that direct strikes on civilians quantity to a battle crime.

“The location and timing of the strikes — when people were commuting to work and taking children to school – is particularly shocking. Intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects, that is objects which are not military objectives, amounts to a war crime,” a spokeswoman for the UN human rights workplace mentioned on Tuesday.

4) According to Ukraine, 19 individuals had been killed and over 100 injured in Russian blitz that broken infrastructure and knocked out energy and fuel. At least 12 vitality amenities had been broken in eight areas.

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5) The scenario is even grimmer in cities recaptured by Ukrainian military. Bodies of 55 individuals, together with a one-year-old child had been exhumed from a mass grave in a city in Donetsk area. In a cemetery in Lyman city, authorities discovered round 110 graves. Ukraine has accused Russia of torture and execution of harmless civilians, a declare that Moscow has systematically denied because the early days of battle.

Forensics lie down a physique of a military officer they exhumed from, what Ukrainians mentioned, a mass grave, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Photo: Reuters)

6) Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated that missile strikes had been in retaliation for a strike on a key bridge linking Russia with occupied Crimea, for which he blamed Ukraine.

7)US President Joe Biden has known as Vladimir Putin a usually rational actor who badly misjudged Russia’s prospects of occupying Ukraine.

“I think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly,” Biden advised CNN after Moscow’s shelling of civilian targets throughout its neighbor marked an escalation within the seven-month battle.

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8) India has additionally expressed concern on the escalation of the battle in Ukraine, together with focusing on of infrastructure and deaths of civilians.

We reiterate that escalation of hostilities is in no ones curiosity. We urge a right away cessation of hostilities and the pressing return to the trail of diplomacy and dialogue. India stands able to help all such efforts aimed toward de-escalation, the exterior ministry has mentioned in response to Russian missile assaults on Ukraine.

9) The lethal strikes on the cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, had been a few of the worst Ukraine has seen for months.

10) Last week, Vladimir Putin signed accession treaties, formalising the takeover of 4 areas in war-torn Ukraine- Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk. At the ceremony held in Moscow, Putin loudly proclaimed that they might defend their land.

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