Vladimir Putin is “planning for more war”, not peace, the head of Nato has warned, as he joined Rishi Sunak and other Western leaders in calling for intensified support for Ukraine.
The prime minister insisted that the “whole world must hold Russia to account” for war crimes and criticised agreements of the “post-Cold War era” for failing Kyiv as he addressed the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Moments earlier, US vice president Kamala Harris announced that Washington had concluded that Russia has committed “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine.
The US State Department alleged that Vladimir Putin’s troops have executed children, and tortured and forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to Russia, in acts it said “are not random or spontaneous” but “part of the Kremlin’s widespread and systematic attack against Ukraine’s civilian population”.
It came as president Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West to “hurry up” in delivering weapons to Ukraine, as he warned that Mr Putin’s forces “can still destroy many lives” and that Ukraine would not be the “last stop” of Russian troops.
