A special session of the UN General Assembly for Ukraine, during which it is planned to discuss the draft resolution, will be held on Sunday, February 27, reports citing a source. TASS.
“The special session is expected to take place on Monday,” a source said on February 27.
Earlier, the United States requested to convene the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday at 15:00 (23:00 Moscow time). During the meeting, a procedural vote on the special session of the General Assembly should take place. In this case, nine members of the UN Security Council out of 15 are sufficient to resolve the issue, the veto is not valid.
On February 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to deprive Russia of the right to vote in the Security Council.Newspaper.ru“.
Russia used its right of veto at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, February 25, to block a draft resolution on a special operation in Ukraine. Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya proposed to include in the document “an honest assessment of the role of Western colleagues in inflating the Ukrainian crisis, who not only stood behind the Maidan coup, but actually gave Kiev carte blanche for any actions and steps.”
At the same meeting, the Russian permanent representative stated that the tasks of denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine were close to completion. Nebenzya stressed that Russia is not at war with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. It is conducting a special military operation against the nationalists and to protect the inhabitants of Donbass. In addition, he added, there is no reliable information about the death of civilians as a result of the actions of the Russian military. Russian troops do not bomb Ukrainian cities and civilians are not in danger, the diplomat said.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass. After that, the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of hitting the country’s military infrastructure and introduced martial law throughout Ukraine. He also said that Kyiv is breaking off diplomatic relations with Moscow and withdrawing its diplomats from the embassy.
The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the army did not carry out air missile or artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine. The civilian population of the country is not in danger. High-precision weapons destroy military infrastructure.
On February 21, the heads of the DPR and LPR Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize the independence of the republics. The corresponding decrees were signed in the evening of the same day. In the presence of the leaders of the republics, the President of the Russian Federation also signed treaties of friendship, cooperation and assistance. The documents were ratified the next day by both the republics themselves and the Russian State Duma.
Since 2014, the Ukrainian authorities have been carrying out a military operation against the inhabitants of Donbass, who refused to recognize the results of the coup d’état and the new government in Ukraine. At the same time, Kyiv blames Moscow for the current situation. Russia has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the conflict.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
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