Mexico’s president has slammed NATO’s policy on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling it “immoral.”

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s did not mention NATO tor the United States by name, but his comments were the latest example of his party’s ambiguous stance on the invasion.

Mexico has voted at the United Nation to condemn the invasion, but refused to impose sanctions on Russia.

López Obrador said that the allies’ current policy was equivalent to saying “I’ll supply the weapons, and you supply the dead. It is immoral.”

“How easy it is to say, ‘Here, I’ll send you this much money for weapons,” he said. “Couldn’t the war in Ukraine have been avoided? Of course it could.”

Meanwhile Ukrainian forces in Severodonetsk must either “surrender or die”, a Russian-backed separatist leader in the DPR has warned.

“They have no other option,” Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People’s Militia Department in the breakaway region, was quoted as saying by Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.

Basurin also claimed Ukrainian forces had blocked themselves in Severodonetsk by blowing up the last bridge connecting it to the nearby city of Lysychansk, meaning they are unable to pull back. 

Reporting by Al Jazeera and other news agencies.