Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Dimitri Polianski, announced that the UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Ukraine next week, at Moscow’s request.
“I will not go into details about what will happen in the Security Council – at our suggestion – on Ukraine early next week: let our opponents live in ignorance for now,” Polianski said Wednesday on the Telegram platform.
Russia has also convened for January 20 another meeting, this one informal, of the UN Security Council on the Ukrainian bombing, in December, of areas controlled by Russian forces in the Donbass region, eastern Ukraine.
According to Polianski, Russia decided to call a meeting because this Thursday the Security Council will discuss, at Japan’s request, “the rule of law among nations” and, on Friday, the situation in Ukraine.
The Russian diplomat said he feared the discussion would take place “with anti-Russian overtones.”
“Our former Western partners will do everything possible to prove that all the problems in the world started precisely on February 24, 2022. Of course we will oppose it,” Polianski said.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 14 million people -6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.9 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. from the ONU.
Right now, 17.7 million Ukrainians need humanitarian aid and 9.3 million need food aid and shelter.
The Russian invasion was condemned by the broader international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,919 dead civilians and 11,075 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
