Six die in strikes on Ukraine as Russia shrugs off threat of sanctions and secondary tariffs with reduced US ceasefire deadline
Over the last half hour, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Finnish Helsinki+50 conference marking the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Helsinki accords.
He said that “Russia keeps launching such attacks, even when the whole world is calling on it to stop the war, a war that Russia started, a war that Russia keeps dragging on, a war that only the Russian leadership wants.”
He did not mince his words as he accused Russian leadership of being “mentally stuck in another century, a time of brutal violence … [and] total disregard for human rights and equality.”
“We know that such ideas and such times must never return to Europe,” he said.
