Article 694N4 Russia-Ukraine war live: UN votes to demand Russian troop withdrawal but China abstains – as it happened

Russia-Ukraine war live: UN votes to demand Russian troop withdrawal but China abstains – as it happened

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Tom Ambrose (now); LĂ©onie Chao-Fong, Geneva Abdul
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Ukraine's allies had been seeking to win over countries that have voted against or abstained in previous resolutions

The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said the conflict in Ukraine could last another year, PA news reports.

When asked whether he could see the war continuing for another 12 months, Wallace told LBC:

I think we will. I think Russia has shown a complete disregard, not only for the lives of the people of Ukraine but for its own soldiers. We are sitting here 12 months in and 188,000, actually more now, Russian soldiers are dead or injured as a result of this catastrophic miscalculation and aggression by President Putin.

When someone has crossed the line and thinks it is OK to do that to your own people, running effectively a meat grinder for an army, I think he is not going to stop.

There is already talk, I think, of an eastern European country supplying MiG-29s ... We're not going to see Nato, we're going to see countries that are members of Nato potentially put in air force equipment or MiG-29.

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