VLAD'S WAR CRIMES
Disgusted UN diplomats walk out in protest against invasion during Russian speech as UK pledges to jail Putin
VLADIMIR Putin and his evil generals face spending their “twilight years behind bars” for their war crimes.
Ministers made the pledge to bring the Russian tyrants to justice as Boris Johnson accused them of using “barbaric and indiscriminate tactics against innocent civilians” in the brutal onslaught on Ukraine.
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And in a poignant show of global unity against Moscow to protest against the war, diplomats walked out at a United Nations meeting in Geneva during a speech by Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.
Dozens of officials, including those from Britain, the US and the EU left the 49th session of the Human Rights Council in protest against Russia's invasion.
During the speech, Lavrov went on to blame Ukraine for the war, claimed Kyiv plans to acquire nuclear weapons and accused the EU of engaging in a "Russophobic frenzy" by supplying weapons to the country.
Meanwhile, The Hague is investigating Russia for “war crimes and crimes against humanity” after they cluster-bombed a nursery school.
Deputy PM Dominic Raab warned the Red Army generals to think twice before carrying out Putin’s blood-stained orders.
He said: “They will end up in the dock of a court and end up spending their twilight years behind bars.
"If there are violations of the laws of war, there will be accountability for that. There will be no impunity for war crimes.”
Mr Johnson, speaking at Warsaw in Poland, said Putin has been sending “missiles into tower blocks to kill children”.
He added: “There is no doubt he is already using barbaric tactics, bombing civilian areas. I have seen the reports about cluster bombs and thermobaric weapons.
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'International Criminal Court'
“Everybody involved in the Russian onslaught should understand all this will be collated in evidence to be used at a future time in what could be proceedings before the International Criminal Court.”
As the missiles rained down on Kyiv, the PM also visited Nato allies in Estonia to offer support.
Mr Johnson said the UK is “beefing up” Nato’s eastern flank and warned Mad Vlad: “He will have more Nato not less Nato”. But his whirlwind visits threatened to be overshadowed by a row over Nato’s refusal to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
In highly-charged scenes, Ukrainian human rights campaigner Daria Kaleniuk ambushed the PM at a press conference in Poland.
She accused him of being afraid to take on the Russians and begged for the West to send in planes.
Tearful Ms Kaleniuk said: “Ukrainian women and children are in deep fear because of bombs and missiles which are going from the sky.
“Ukrainian people are desperately asking for the rights to protect our sky, we’re asking for a no-fly zone. Nato is not willing to defend because Nato is afraid of World War Three — but it’s already started and it’s Ukrainian children who are there taking the hit.
“You are talking about more sanctions, Prime Minister, but Roman Abramovich is not sanctioned, he’s in London, his children are not in the bombardments, his children are there in London.”
A shaken Mr Johnson ruled out sending Nato jets in as they could accidentally trigger World War Three if they shot down a Russian plane.
But he vowed to do everything else in his power to help arm, train and assist Ukrainian lionhearts fighting for their homeland.
Everybody involved in the Russian onslaught should understand all this will be collated in evidence to be used at a future time.
Boris Johnson
He told Ms Kaleniuk: “I’m conscious that there is not enough that we can do, as the UK Government, to help in the way that you want.
“When you talk about the no-fly zone, as I said to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a couple of times, unfortunately the implication of that is the UK would be engaged in shooting down Russian planes.
It would be engaged in direct combat with Russia.
“That’s not something that we can do or that we’ve envisaged. The consequences of that would be truly very, very difficult to control.”
Britain yesterday banned all boats with a link to Russia from docking in our ports.
The powerful walkout at the UN in Geneva came before Lavrov described Russia’s invasion as a “special military operations” aimed at dislodging what he called “neo-Nazis” ruling Ukraine.
The 71-year-old also accused the EU of engaging in a “Russophobic frenzy” by supplying weapons to Ukraine and blamed sanctions as to why he could not attended in person. Envoys from Syria, China and Venezuela were among those who stayed to listen to Lavrov.
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Britain sent a second military plane yesterday to Poland packed with bandages, painkillers, PPE and other hospital supplies destined for Ukraine. The World Health Organisation warned at the weekend medical oxygen supplies in Ukraine are “dangerously low”.
- LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer warned his MP’s he will not tolerate anti-Nato ideals and will boot out those taking such a stance. He said: “There will be no place for false equivalence between the actions of Russia and Nato.”
- Diane Abbott, who yesterday confused Ukraine with Croatia in a live TV gaffe, was one of a dozen MPs who signed a letter that blamed Nato for the invasion.
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