Anton BlinkenThe US Secretary of State, who is in India, said on Friday that the world should not allow it Wladimir Putin wage war with impunity Ukraine.

What happened: blinkingafter meeting his fellow quads India, Japan And Australia in New Delhi, said: “If we allow Russia to do what it’s doing in Ukraine with impunity, that sends a message to potential aggressors everywhere that they might get away with it, too,” Reuters reported.

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Blinken met his quad peers on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in New Delhi.

In a joint statement after the meeting, the Quad leaders also said that using or threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine was “impermissible.” This happened after Putin in January suspended a landmark nuclear arms control treaty and threatened to resume nuclear testing.

On Thursday, Blinken also met briefly with the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in New Delhi. The US Secretary of State urged Lavrov to take steps toward peace and urged the release of a US citizen detained by Russia.

“End this war of aggression, engage in meaningful diplomacy that can bring about a just and lasting peace,” Blinken said, according to the White House statement.

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