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ritain bluntly warned Vladimir Putin on Monday that he would face “war with Nato” if even a “single toecap of a Russian soldier” stepped into the territory of the military alliance’s 30 members.
Cabinet minister Sajid Javid also accused the Russian president of committing war crimes, with Russian troops reported to have 31 health centers in Ukraine including a cancer hospital, as well as a maternity hospital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Sunday that it “it is only a matter of time” before Russian missiles fall on Nato territory after Kremlin forces fired 30 rockets at the Yavoriv military base, less than 15 miles from the border with Poland.
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The attack on the centre, where Allied troops trained Ukrainian soldiers before the war began, killed at least 35 people and injured 134 others, according to local reports.It is also an important logistical hub and Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov has said arms shipments to Ukraine from Nato countries would be considered as “legitimate targets”.
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However, Mr Javid warned Moscow against any attack on Nato countries.
“We have been very clear, even before the war started, that if there was an attack on any Nato country, even if just a single toecap of a Russian soldier steps into Nato territory then it will be war with Nato and Nato would respond, he told Sky News.
“That has not changed throughout this conflict and there would be a significant response from Nato if there was any kind of attack from Russia.”
Mr Zelensky said he had given Western leaders “clear warning” of the danger to the Yavoriv base.
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He asked Nato leaders again to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but the West has so far refused to do so amid fears it could spark a wider war across Europe.
Mr Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, launched more than two weeks ago, has been marred by blunders and he has so far failed to seize any major city, with thousands of Russian soldiers having died and the Russian economy now being hit with unnoticed.
Moscow has reportedly asked China for military supplies, as well as economic support to ease the impact of sanctions, but America has warned Beijing against getting involved in the conflict.
Russia invades Ukraine – In pictures
A Ukrainian serviceman walks past the vertical tail fin of a Russian Su-34 bomber
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An aerial view shows a residential building destroyed by shelling in Borodyanka
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A refugee child fleeing from Ukraine gestures when waiting for transport at Nyugati station
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A Ukrainian serviceman helps evacuees gathered under a destroyed bridge, as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv
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Firefighters extinguishing a fire in the Kharkiv regional police department building, which is said was hit by recent shelling, in Kharkiv
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A woman reacts as she stands in front of a house burning after being shelled in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv
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People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine
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A man gestures in front of an evacuation train at Kyiv central train station
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A factory and a store burn after having been bombarded in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine
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Serhii, with his deceased 16-year-old son Iliya who was killed while playing football
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This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)
A military convoy northwest of Invankiv, Ukrain
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A woman hugs a girl as refugees from Ukraine wait for a transport at the Moldova-Ukrainian border’s checkpoint near the town of Palanca
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An ambulance is seen through the damaged window of a vehicle hit by bullets, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv
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Civilians train to throw Molotov cocktails in Zhytomyr
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The square outside the headquarters of the Kharkiv administration in Kharkiv after it was shelled
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Missile attack on Kharkiv
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Kateryna Suharokova holds her newborn son Makar in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukrain
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Women carry portraits of school teachers Yelena Ivanova and Yelena Kudrik, who were killed by shelling, during a funeral at a cemetery in the separatist-controlled town of Horlivka (Gorlovka) in the Donetsk region, Ukraine
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Demonstrators supporting Ukraine gather outside the United Nations during an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York
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People take part in a basic military training session in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
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Russian Armored personnel carrier (APC) burning during fight with the Ukrainian armed forces in Kharki
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People stand in line in front of a supermarket while smoke bills over the town of Vasylkiv just outside Kiev
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A father hugs his daughter as the family reunite after fleeing conflict in Ukraine, at the Medyka border crossing, in Poland
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Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn, in a street in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine
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Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv, Ukraine
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People rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Firefighters inspect the damage at a building following a missile attack on the city of Kyiv, Ukraine
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A destroyed BMP Armored Personnel Carrier
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A man clears debris at a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where a military shell allegedly hit,
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A view shows destroyed Russian Army multiple missile launchers with the letter “Z” painted on their sides in Kharkiv, Ukraine
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A woman walks in front of Russian armored vehicles parked at a railway station in the southern Russian Rostov region
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A pictures emerges apparently of attack in Kyiv amid claims a warplane has been downed
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Ukrainian soldiers take positions in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine
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Rescuers work at the crash site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Antonov aircraft, which, according to the State Emergency Service, was shot down in Kyiv region, Ukraine
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Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Moscow
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A man runs along a boardwalk opposite the sails of the Sydney Opera House illuminated with the colors of Ukraine’s national flag in solidarity with the country’s people and government currently being invaded by Russia
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People stand with placards and Ukrainian and Union flags at a demonstration in central London
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An explosion on the horizon outside Kyiv
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A man sits outside his destroyed building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv
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A wounded woman is seen as airstrike damages an apartment complex outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Firefighters work on a fire on a building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv
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Inhabitants of Kyiv leave the city following pre-offensive missile strikes of the Russian armed forces and Belarus
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Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv
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Mr Javid also highlighted more than 30 reported Russian attacks on health facilities in Ukraine.
“These are war crimes,” he stressed.
He added that Justice Secretary Dominic Raab was traveling to The Hague, where the International Criminal Court is based, for talks with its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan.
Mr Raab would offer Britain’s help in gathering evidence of war crimes, he added, and in pursuing a case against Mr Putin and his team for committing such atrocities.
In other key developments
Ninety children have been killed and more than 100 wounded in Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February, according to the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office. At least two people have died and 12 were injured in a Russian air strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukrainian state TV reported, with footage showing blocks of flats burning and destroyed.Kyiv authorities said they were stockpiling two weeks worth of essential food items for the two million people who have not yet fled the capital, as Russian forces seek to encircle the capital.The Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv has been shelled by Russian forces, the Kyiv city administration said, killing two people and injuring seven. Civic chiefs in the besieged port of Mariupol said 2,187 residents had been killed there since the start of the invasion. The city is running out of food and water, and aid convoys have failed again to reach the city due to Russian shelling, said Ukrainian authorities who were trying to re-open a humanitarian route into the city.Heavy shelling was reported on Chernihiv northeast of the capital and attacks on the southern town of Mykolaiv, where officials said nine people were killed. Ukraine’s forces counter-attacked in Mykolaiv and the eastern Kharkiv region, an Interior Ministry official said.Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine were being stepped up, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk again after both sides cited progress. “Russia is already beginning to talk constructively,” Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said in a video online. “I think that we will achieve some results literally in a matter of days.” A Russian delegate to the talks, Leonid Slutsky, was quoted by the RIA news agency as saying they had made significant progress and it was possible the delegations could soon reach draft agreements.American journalist Brent Renaud, 50, was shot and killed by Russian forces In the town of Irpin near Kyiv and another journalist was wounded, said regional police chief Andriy Nyebytov. Russia has admitted to losing its first GRU military intelligence spy in the war. Captain Alexey Glushchak, 31, from Tyumen in Siberia, died in the siege of Mariupol, but the Russians have given no details of how the GRU agent was killed. The GRU was behind the 2018 Salisbury Novichok poisonings, according to British investigators. Around 5,000 Russian troops may already have died in the Ukraine conflict, as well as thousands of civilians, and many Ukrainian soldiers.The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR reported that nearly 2.7 million people had fled Ukraine as of Saturday, nearly 1.7 million of them heading to Poland.
Meanwhile, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was due to meet China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome, as Washington warned Beijing against giving Russia economic support to ease the impact of imposed sanctions imposed by the West, with Moscow also reported to have suspended China for military equipment.
As many countries feel the impact of the economic turmoil caused by the war, Mr Javid defended Boris Johnson seeking to persuade Saudi Arabia to boost its oil output so the West can wean itself off dependence on flows from Russia.
Asked if Britain was overlooking Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights, the Health Secretary said: “We’ve got a candid frank relationship with them, it is a very important country for us, and I think it is leading right that the Prime Minister is this effort to engage Saudi Arabia even more so in the events that we’re seeing unfolding now.”
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