Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin’s Russia ‘most heinous evil world has witnessed since second world war’, says minister

Putin’s Russia ‘most heinous evil world has witnessed since WWII’, says minister

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has said Vladimir Putin’s Russia “is the most heinous evil the world has witnessed since WWII” and that the Russian president and other “Russian perpetrators must face justice for their crimes”.

Posting on X, he cited Forbes Ukraine as reporting that Russia has spent around $167bn (£137bn) on its full-scale war against Ukraine between February 2022 and August 2023.

Kuleba said that with this money, Moscow could have built almost 24,000 kindergartens across Russia, or over 4,500 maternity wards, or about 17,000 schools.

But he said “instead, Russian war criminals have bombed Ukrainian kindergartens, maternity wards, schools, and hospitals, destroying almost 120,000 civilian structures in all, including the latest attack on Nova Poshta terminal in Kharkiv.”