Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected the Russian embassy’s statement alleging the people who live in Donetsk and Luhansk, the two pro-Russia areas of Ukraine, were at “imminent threat of ethnic cleansing.” “The invasion has effectively already begun,” Morrison told Seven’s Sunrise program on Feb. 24, in reference to the positioning of Russian forces inside those regions under the disputed pretext of peacekeeping. “We completely reject the claims that Russia has made in relation to Ukraine and the territories that they’ve come and effectively already occupied. And the world has to continue to stand strong on this,” Morrison said. The Russian embassy released its statement late at night on Feb. 13, local time, defending its move into the separatist Ukrainian regions as being on “humanitarian grounds.” This came after Russia’s ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky was summoned to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade after Russia moved to recognise Donetsk and Luhansk as independent …