The UN Security Council will meet next Saturday at 9pm GMT (same time in Lisbon) to discuss the attack in the Russian city of Belgorod that killed at least 14 people, the Russian mission to the United Nations announced.
“Today (…) a UN Security Council meeting on the Belgorod attacks will take place at the request of Russia,” the mission said on social media.
The information was confirmed to the AFP agency by two members of the UN Security Council.
Russia had today called for an urgent Security Council meeting following the attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, which killed at least fourteen people, including two children, and injured 108, according to a report by the Russian Emergencies Ministry hit. responsibility towards Ukraine.
“According to the latest information, twelve adults and two children died in Belgorod. In addition, 108 people, including 15 children, were injured,” he wrote on the social network Telegram.
The Russian Ministry of Defense assured on the same social network that the deadly attack on Belgorod will not go unpunished, blaming the Ukrainian army: “This attack will not go unpunished,” the Russian ministry stated on Telegram, indicating that it managed to intercept two missiles and “most” of the missiles were fired at the city.
Earlier, the local governors of Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk regions had reported four deaths, including three children, and an unspecified number of injuries on the same social network.
The attacks by the Ukrainian army come a day after Russia’s massive attacks on several cities in Ukraine, including the capital, that killed at least 39 people and injured more than 160, Ukrainian President Volodymyr said today on social media. an estimated thirty dead.
This attack was “the largest in terms of civilian casualties”, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said today, declaring January 1, 2024 a “day of mourning”.
The military offensive that Russia launched in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 caused the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II (1939-1945), according to the most recent UN data.
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by most of the international community, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and impose political and economic sanctions on Russia.
Source: DN
