Ukraine-Russia live news: Yellen blasts Moscow officials at G20

Published On 15 Jul 202215 Jul 2022

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• US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has condemned Russia’s “brutal and unjust war” in Ukraine and said Russian finance officials taking part in the G20 meeting in Bali shared responsibility for its horrific consequences”.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has admonished Moscow for carrying out missile attacks in the central city of Vinnytsia, calling it an “act of terrorism” and saying no other country in the world represents a greater terrorist threat than Russia.

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• 34 minutes ago (05:12 GMT)Missiles hit Kharkiv: Emergency serviceMissiles hit the city of Kharkiv overnight, damaging two educational facilities, according to the state emergency service.One of the missiles hit a school courtyard and damaged part of the building.Shelling also occurred across the broader Kharkiv region, the department said.Two fires had to be put out in the town of Chuhuiv, one of which was in a residential area. The emergency service said there were no casualties.A man rides his bicycle in front of school 134 destroyed in a military attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine July 14, 2022 [Nacho Doce/Kharkiv]
• an hour ago (04:26 GMT)Ukraine cannot talk about sovereignty while aiding US sanctions: N KoreaNorth Korea’s foreign ministry says Ukraine has no right to raise sovereignty issues after joining the United States’s “unjust, illegal” actions that breached Pyongyang’s sovereignty.North Korean state media released a statement from the ministry after formally recognising two Russian-backed, self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine as independent states. Ukraine severed relations with North Korea after the move, calling it an attempt to undermine its sovereignty and territorial integrity.But the isolated country’s foreign ministry defended the decision, saying Ukraine had already aided US-led actions, including sanctions over North Korea’s weapons programs.“Ukraine has no the right to raise issue or dispute our legitimate exercise of sovereignty after committing an act that severely lacks fairness and justice between nations by actively joining the US unjust and illegal hostile policy in the past,” the ministry said.