- The UN Common Meeting on Monday greeted Ukraine’s delegate with applause, in response to CNN.
- The physique met Russia’s ambassador with silence.
- The particular session got here simply hours after Russia launched a barrage of assaults throughout Ukraine.
The United Nations Common Meeting gathered for an emergency session on Monday simply hours after Russia launched a lethal barrage of missiles throughout Ukraine, in a tense proxy battle between the 2 nation’s delegates amid the continued warfare.
The particular session was scheduled forward of Russia’s Monday assault, however a number of international locations used the assembly as a platform to voice outrage over the bombardment, which killed at the very least 14 individuals and wounded dozens extra, in response to Ukrainian officers.
Monday’s assembly comes because the physique prepares for a vote later this week on Russia’s current annexation of partially-occupied territories in Ukraine, together with the Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia areas.
However the preliminary gathering provided clear perception into how the meeting is prone to vote, in response to CNN, which reported that Ukraine’s UN ambassador was greeted with applause, whereas Russia’s ambassador confronted silence.
On Monday, The Common Meeting handily vetoed Russia’s try and conduct the annexation vote through secret poll, in response to the outlet. One-hundred-and-seven international locations voted in favor of holding a public vote on the matter, whereas 13 nations opted for a secret poll, in response to Reuters. Thirty-nine international locations abstained and the remaining international locations, together with Russia and China, didn’t vote, the outlet reported.
Ukraine’s delegate, Sergiy Kyslytsya delivered emotional opening statements opposing Russia’s strikes, in response to The New York Occasions.
“A path of blood is left behind the Russian delegation when it enters the Common Meeting,” he stated, “and the corridor is crammed up with the scent of smoldering human flesh.”
Kyslytsya stated Russia had already killed members of his household and expressed that “we see no finish to that cruelty,” in response to CNN.
Russia’s UN ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, in the meantime, steered that different nations had been ganging up on Moscow, the outlet reported, and continued to defend his nation’s annexations.
