Biden called for Russia’s expulsion from the G20

According to Fars News Agency’s International Service, US President Joe Biden today (Thursday, April 4) called for Russia’s expulsion from the G20.

Biden also said that NATO would respond if Russia used chemical weapons in Ukraine. He also claimed that China knew that China’s economic future depended more on the West than on Russia in an effort to win Chinese support for sanctions against Russia.

Russia ordered a military strike on Ukraine on February 24. This development came days after Moscow formally recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics in eastern Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his military operation is aimed at “demilitarizing Ukraine” and “de-Naziizing” the country.

Russia has also said that Ukraine has not fulfilled its obligations under the Minsk agreements reached in 2014 and 2015 to resolve the dispute between separatists and Kiev.

Hours after the Russian invasion, Ukraine announced that it had cut off all diplomatic ties with the country. In response to Russia’s military action, Western nations have repeatedly imposed sanctions on most of Moscow’s financial institutions, energy sector and political elite, including cutting off several Russian banks’s Swift banking messaging system.

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