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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

‘My parents are in bomb shelters’: Ukrainian embassy head urges Australia to expel Russian ambassador

Volodymyr Shalkivskyi
Volodymyr Shalkivskyi, the chargé d’affaires at Ukraine’s embassy in Australia, says countries must ‘use all means that we have in our disposal in order to fight back’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The head of Ukraine’s embassy in Australia says he cannot remain “diplomatically polite” when his parents spend their nights in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, and has called for the Russian ambassador to be expelled.

Volodymyr Shalkivskyi issued the plea to the Australian government as he spoke about how his parents, aged in their 70s, had rebuffed suggestions to flee Ukraine’s capital and were now asking for molotov cocktail recipes.

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