An emotional Charge d'Affaires Volodomyr Shalkivskyi said Ukrainians remained shocked as residents desperately fight for their country or try to flee to the country's west.
"It's really painful to see the places where you spent your time usually with your family that's right now the place for the fighting," he told the Nine Network on Friday.
"It's our country and we need to defend it ourselves. But what we need is mounding pressure on Kremlin."
The United States unveiled another round of harsh sanctions and the United Kingdom has moved in lockstep.
Australia is expected to follow with further tranches of sanctions, with the prime minister flagging moves on over 300 members of the Russian parliament.
But Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the US and its allies had done all they could to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"What more can the world do? There can be forces sent in and then you would be saying, Why have we entered into a nuclear war?" Mr Dutton told the Nine Network.
"We've offered, with the rest of the world, very strong sanctions against Putin. We've been united in our call against Russia to not undertake this action and now we're seeing the tragic circumstances unfold."
Mr Dutton also urged the world to remain focused on the human suffering in the region.
"We need to concentrate on the human tragedy that's unfolding in Ukraine," he said.
"We need to prevent it as best we can, but we need to make sure that we continue to report it because that's the human cost and that's the pressure that needs to come to bear on President Putin."
The defence minister again called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to put pressure on the Kremlin.
"China and Russia have entered into this frankly unholy alliance and President Xi has a lot of power he can exert over President Putin," he said.
"He has chosen not to do that."
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