US, Quad Allies Condemn Russia’s War In Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken alongside counterparts from India, Japan, and Australia on Friday issued a statement following their meeting in New Delhi, condemning Russia's attempts to wage aggression with impunity.

The so-called Quad group also declared that the deployment or even mere suggestion of nuclear weapons in Ukraine is completely "inadmissible."

Blinken said; "If we allow with impunity Russia to do what it's doing in Ukraine, then that's a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they may be able to get away with it too.”

A day earlier in New Delhi, Blinken met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine began just over a year ago.

During the brief encounter, Blinken urged Russia to end the war and reverse its suspension of the New START nuclear treaty.

The Quad ministers also took a barely disguised swipe at China by denouncing actions that increase tensions in the South China Sea.