ED Miliband has blasted Vladimir Putin to the face of his crony at a heated G20 summit – telling him “we all know you are the aggressor”.
Confronting Russia‘s foreign minister he slammed the Kremlin’s relentless bloodshed in Ukraine and warned “you are not winning this war”.
The fiery comments come just one day after Putin’s forces brutally bombed a railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine – killing 15.
Horrifying photos show multiple double decker buses and trucks engulfed in flames and shooting hellish black-orange plumes into the skies.
Speaking at the summit in Atlanta, Miliband said: “Only yesterday your drones attacked and killed 15 people.
“And there are countless examples like this of you killing innocent civilians throughout this war.”
In a fiery face-to-face with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov he continued: “We all know you are the aggressor. We all know you started this war four and a half years ago with the full scale invasion of Ukraine.”
Russia has lost over half a million people to its senseless war with more than a million more injured.
Putin has even been forced to import thousands of prosthetic arms and legs for his maimed troops from Nato – despite being at war with Europe.
Miliband told his Russian counterpart to pass on a message to Putin: “You are not winning this war.”
In a veiled swipe at Donald Trump – who recently struck a huge diesel deal with Putin – the Brit politician urged all countries to choke off the funds that “perpetuate this barbaric war”.
Miliband made the comments at a meeting of foreign ministers from the world’s leading economies.
Controversy over whether Russia should have been invited to the G20 summit culminated in a scrapped group photo after Miliband and others refused to be pictured alongside Russia’s Lavrov.
In December, Trump is hosting a G20 summit of world leaders at his golf club in Miami.
It is unclear whether Putin will accept the US president’s invitation.
It comes as the world leader halted fresh sanctions against the Kremlin just three days before the limits were due to be imposed.
The measures would have imposed tariffs of up to 100 per cent on five Russian oil companies.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky blasted the decision, warning it “only encourages Putin to keep attacking”.
Relations between the world leaders have sunk to an all time low after Elon Musk‘s Starlink programme mysteriously blacked out – leaving Ukraine more vulnerable to deadly drone strikes.
Vladimir Putin was delighted by the shock move and hailed the tech tycoon as “a real genius”.
Kyiv’s military uses the satellite system for battlefield comms and to guide drone interceptors which down deadly Russian attacks.
Elon Musk and the US government have each blamed one another for the devastating slowdown in Starlink services.