![]() ![]() Republican Lindsey Graham issued the warning alongside Democrat senator Richard Russia will be "in a war with NATO" if it uses a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, a US senator has vowed. Mr Albanese said the issue would be "resolved" but did not say how. The embassy also declined to explain why the man was on the site, saying in an email: "The Embassy does not comment (on) this." The Russian Embassy refused to comment on media reports that the man seen smoking cigarettes outside his accommodation was a Russian diplomat. Parliament passed emergency legislation last week blocking on Russia's lease on the largely empty block on security grounds because the new embassy would have been too close to Parliament House.Ī man has been living in a portable building on the site since Sunday, when passers-by first saw Australian Federal Police outside the fenced block in the Yarralumla diplomatic precinct. Mr Albanese said he was confident that the eviction would stand up to any Russian legal challenge. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance in occupying the site in the capital, saying a "bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security". ![]() A suspected lone Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow's proposed embassy in Canberra after the Australian government vetoed the plan on security grounds. ![]()
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