Australia plans to join allies in personally sanctioning Putin and says expulsion of Russian diplomats a ‘live option’

The Australian foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, says Russian president Vladimir Putin will be ‘personally responsible for the deaths and the suffering of innocent Ukrainians’. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The Australian foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, says Russian president Vladimir Putin will be ‘personally responsible for the deaths and the suffering of innocent Ukrainians’. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/26/australia-russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-sergei-lavrov