Australian PM Rejects Russian Embassy’s Claim of ‘Peacekeeping’

Australian PM Rejects Russian Embassy’s Claim of ‘Peacekeeping’
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media to announce sanctions on top Russian officials following the invasion of eastern Ukraine, during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 23, 2022. Steven Saphore/AFP via Getty Images
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected the Russian embassy’s statement alleging the people who live in Donetsk and Luhansk, the two pro-Russia areas of Ukraine, were at “imminent threat of ethnic cleansing.”

“The invasion has effectively already begun,” Morrison told Seven’s Sunrise program on Feb. 24, in reference to the positioning of Russian forces inside those regions under the disputed pretext of peacekeeping.
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