Latest updates as Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to world leaders at the G20 summit; hundreds of “war crimes” documented in Kherson after Russian occupation ends.
Rishi Sunak has said Russia must “get out of Ukraine and end this barbaric war” as he confronted Russian officials at the G20 summit in Bali, according to Downing Street.
Speaking in the first session on Tuesday, which was closed to media, the Prime Minister also criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s absence.
According to a transcript from No 10, Mr Sunak said: “It is notable that Putin didn’t feel able to join us here.
“Maybe if he had, we could get on with sorting things out.
“Because the single biggest difference that anyone could make is for Russia to get out of Ukraine and end this barbaric war.”
We’re getting some of Mr Zelenskyy’s speech now. He has been speaking by video to leaders at the G20 summit in Bali.
He told them that, despite the recent withdrawal of Russian forces from Kherson, the battle is not yet over for Ukraine.
He said: “To liberate Ukrainian land, we will have to fight for a while longer.
“Ukraine should not be offered to conclude compromises with its conscience, sovereignty, territory and independence.
“Russia must re-affirm the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
“Ukraine’s control over all sections of our state border with Russia must be restored.”
He called for price restrictions on Russian energy resources and said he wants the grain export initiative to be expanded to ports in the Mykolaiv region.
He also set out his vision of what should happen after the war ends, saying Russia must compensate the damage done by the war “at the expense of its assets”.
“The world should endorse the establishment of the special tribunal regarding Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” he added.
“We need effective security assurances, prepared… a draft agreement called the Kyiv Security Compact.
“When all anti-war measures are implemented, a document confirming the end of the war should be signed by the parties.
“We should hold an international conference to cement key elements of post-war security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic space to prevent the recurrence of Russian aggression.”
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken at the G20 summit in Bali.
Mr Zelenskyy was speaking by video to the world leaders.
The European Union ambassador to Indonesia Vincent Piket said the speech was “impassioned, yet detailed”.
Mr Piket said Mr Zelenskyy called for “the restoration of peace in an respect for the UN Charter, the principle of territorial integrity in Ukraine”.
The war in Ukraine will dominate discussion at the G20 summit in Bali later.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has already said that Vladimir Putin’s regime will “hear the chorus of global opposition” to what it has done since invading in late February.
In his nightly address, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President has said: “It is obvious for everyone what Ukraine is, what the presence of our flag is.
“When there is a Ukrainian flag, there is civilization, there is freedom.
“There is social security.
“There is infrastructure.
“There is security.
“There is someone to take care of people.
“There is everything that disappears and is destroyed when the occupier comes.
“This is what the Russian flag means – complete devastation.
“There is no electricity, no communication, no Internet, no television.
“The occupiers destroyed everything themselves – on purpose.
“This is their special operation.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has omitted Russia as he referred to the G20 summit as the “G19”.
“In a few hours I will talk about [Ukraine’s advancements] in my address to the participants of the G19 summit in Indonesia,” he said.
“This is a union of very important states. And today, on the eve of the summit, significant statements have already been made.
“In particular, it is important that the United States and China together noted the inadmissibility of any threats to use nuclear weapons. Everyone understands to whom these words are addressed.”
Now that Ukraine has taken back Kherson city, some of its soldiers are on an emotional high.
Military volunteer Seva Koshel, speaking on our Ukraine War Diaries podcast, said he had visited a hospital for injured soldiers in Kyiv and that the mood there had been “really optimistic”.
“When you are visiting this kind of place… you have so many of our guys, officers and soldiers without arms, without legs, heavily injured.
“But there is… an atmosphere of drama. The atmosphere in hospital anyway is really good, is really optimistic.
“And even these heavily injured guys, they’re in a good mood and they’re smiling and, of course, we have discussed [the] Kherson situation and all of us, we believe that it’s only the beginning of our big victory.”
You can listen to the full podcast below…
Ukrainian soldiers are using shop-bought drones as their eyes and ears in the trenches or flying them above Russian tanks and dropping grenades through open hatches.
Meanwhile, back in Kyiv swarms of Iranian-made kamikaze drones are wreaking misery and plunging citizens into darkness.
What are the main types of drones being used in Ukraine? Will the US ever send its feared Reapers and Predators to the battlefield?
Sky News takes a look at some of the drones being flown by both sides, and answers some of the key questions.
Russian troops carried out a relatively orderly withdrawal from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a senior US military official said on Monday.
This contradicts some of the more chaotic retreats in the country.
“We assess that it was a relatively orderly withdrawal,” the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told reporters.
Russia began its withdrawal from the southern city and the west bank of the Dnipro River last week, and Ukrainians have already declared the region liberated.
Russia could become a “chaotic, nuclear-powered” state if it continues to lose the war in Ukraine in the spring, a British MP said today.
Bob Seely, who represents the Isle of Wight, told the House of Commons: “When this war is lost by the Russian state then we have to start asking ourselves how desperate will Putin be and what will happen internally to Russia.
“I think we have to start thinking about the end game, because the end game will probably start happening in the spring.
“Then we have to start thinking about what will happen with nuclear decision points, then we have to start thinking about potentially the failure of Russia and what the disaster of a chaotic, nuclear-powered Russia looks like.
“So there is much to do for the government.”
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