Sunak calls on Russia to "end the barbaric war" against Ukraine

MADRID, 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has called on Russia on Tuesday to "end the barbaric war" in Ukraine and to withdraw the troops deployed in the country since the beginning of the invasion, ordered on February 24 by part of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"It is remarkable that Putin did not feel able to join us here," Sunak said during his speech at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, where the Russian president is not present. "Perhaps if he had come we could have solved something," he added, according to the British television channel Sky News.

Thus, he stressed that "the biggest difference that could be made is for Russia to leave Ukraine and put an end to this barbaric war." "The United Kingdom rejects this aggression. We will support Ukraine as long as it is necessary," said Sunak, who told Moscow that "countries should not invade their neighbors."

The British 'premier' has outlined that countries "should not attack civil infrastructure and the civilian population and should not threaten a nuclear escalation." "I'm sure these are things we all agree on," he said, after emphasizing before his speech that "Putin and his allies will not have a legitimate seat at the table until they end their illegal war in Ukraine ".

The Russian delegation to the G20 is headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The summit takes place days after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the city of Kherson (south), occupied at the beginning of March, amid the advances of the Ukrainian Army in this region and other areas in the southeast of the country.