Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister has called on NATO to make quick decisions about how best to help stop President Putin’s forces.
“Either you help us now and I’m speaking about days not weeks, or your help will come too late and many people will die, many civilians will lose their homes, many villages will be destroyed, exactly because this help came too late.”
New sanctions have been agreed by the US and UK this week, but EU members are yet to agree on its latest proposals – and Kuleba wants all sanctions to go further than they have already, to include a ban on Russian oil and gas.
He said that the atrocities seen in Bucha and other parts of northern Ukraine recently occupied by Russian forces are “just the tip of the iceberg” of alleged war crimes committed by Putin’s side.
The situation is “much, much worse” in Mariupol, he adds.
“To prevent more Buchas, we have to talk and see how we can end this war,” he said.
