Tonight, the UN Security Council will meet urgently to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine following a request from the Kiev Government in light of recent developments.
The meeting will be public and will start today at 9:30 p.m. New York (02:30 GMT on Thursday), according to diplomatic sources and confirmed shortly after the rotating presidency of the Council, which Russia occupies this month.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba requested the board “before the call by the occupying powers of Donetsk and Luhansk to ask Russia for military assistance”, which represents “a further escalation” in the crisis, as he wrote on his Twitter account.
the world faces “to the greatest global crisis of peace and security of recent years”, warned yesterday the secretary general of the United Nations Organization (UN), Antonio Guterres.
They ask for help for Ukraine’s aggressions
The self-styled “People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk” asked for help from Russian President Vladimir Putin to “repel the military aggression” they said they suffered from Ukraine, according to the Kremlin.
In that appeal, Russia’s allies relied on the friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance agreements signed last Monday in the Kremlin between the two republics and the Russian government.
It will be the second meeting due to the Ukrainian crisis
The Ukrainian Parliament today approved, by a large majority, the declaration of a state of national emergency, under the threat of a Russian invasion.
The Security Council meeting, convened with unusual speed, will be the second on the Ukrainian crisis this week, after the one held late last Monday.
In it, a majority of member states condemned Russia’s moves, although Moscow had the tacit support of China, whose representative refrained from criticizing the Kremlin.
Since Russia is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and has veto power, it is practically impossible for the highest decision-making body of the UN to pass a resolution on the current crisis.