Sir Keir Starmer faced down Russia over the war in Ukraine, accusing it of treating its own citizens as 'meat to be thrown in to the grinder', in an address to the UN Security Council.
Sir Keir Starmer faced down Russia over the war in Ukraine , accusing it of treating its own citizens as 'meat to be thrown in to the grinder'.
The PM told the security council, on which Russia has a permanent seat: 'Six hundred thousand Russian soldiers have also been killed or wounded in this war. And for what? 'The UN Charter - which they sit here to uphold speaks of human dignity. Not treating your own citizens as bits of meat to fling into the grinder.'
His strongly-worded intervention came after Foreign Secretary David Lammy branded Russia a mafia state yesterday Read More Ukraine's war with Russia is 'closer to the end' than we think, hints President Zelensky 'Any missile or drone strike or any critical incident in the energy system could lead to a nuclear disaster. A day like that must never come.'
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