An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council will be held on January 12 at the request of Ukraine after the latest Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and the country's energy infrastructure.
The corresponding appeal of Ukraine was supported by Great Britain, Greece, Denmark, Latvia, Liberia and France.
“We expect from the UN Security Council not only another condemnation of Russian war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine, but very concrete steps to stop Russian aggression and force Moscow to a just and lasting peace based on the principles of the UN Charter,” the statement said.
Earlier, on January 10, Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Andriy Melnik said that the use of the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile in the Lviv region poses a serious and unprecedented threat to the security of Europe and undermines regional and international stability.
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Ukraine urgently convened the UN Security Council and a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council due to the Russian attack by Oreshnik on the night of January 9. Such a strike near the borders of the EU and the Alliance poses a serious threat to security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry emphasized.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the Oreshnik attack on Ukraine. The reason cited was a fake about an “attack” on the residence illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Oreshnik rocket was launched from the Russian Kapustin Yar test site, the SBU reported on January 9. The intelligence service published a photo of its wreckage.
The media wrote that a missile hit a workshop of a state-owned enterprise in Lviv, several tens of kilometers from the Polish border. The impact of several submunitions led to “minor holes in concrete structures” in the workshop and the formation of craters in a forested area.
As military expert Sergei Beskrestnov (Flash) noted, the Russian Oreshnik attack on Lviv near the EU border was a message addressed to Europe about Russia’s “capabilities and determination.” “It broke through two floor slabs and burned the complete collection of Lenin’s works in the room (archive in the basement),” he said.
