The United Kingdom, the United States, Albania, France, Norway and Ireland have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ukraine, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
“Russia is committing war crimes and targeting civilians,” the British diplomatic mission to the United Nations said on Twitter. “Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine is a danger to all of us,” he said, calling for an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
Russia, for its part, called for a postponement of a separate vote in the Security Council on Wednesday on a draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine;
At the same time, according to other diplomatic sources, discussions are underway on the possibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressing the UN General Assembly.
France and Mexico, who are drafting a resolution on humanitarian aid to Ukraine, have decided not to submit it to the Security Council, where Moscow can veto, but to the General Assembly, where no member state can block the approval of any text.
On February 25, the day after the Russian invasion, 11 of the 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of a draft resolution condemning the attack, but Russia vetoed it. On March 2, the General Assembly approved by a large majority – voted by 141 countries – a text that Moscow demanded to end the war.
In Ukraine, twenty civilians were killed Wednesday by Russian fire in front of a shop, a market and inside a house in the north of the country, trying to flee Mariupol to the south.
US President Joe Biden yesterday described Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time as a “war criminal”, while earlier, the International Court of Justice “ordered” Russia to immediately stop its military operations in Ukraine.
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