ABC News reports that the Defence Minister Peter Dutton has labelled Vladimir Putin a "paranoid and utterly ruthless" dictator and says the Russian President may be "destroyed" by the war in Ukraine during remarks at a USSC event held in Canberra.
Defence16 March 2022
Peter Dutton escalates criticism of Vladimir Putin, says Russian invasion was a miscalculation
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