Main points
- Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced that the discussion of the shelling of Ukraine will be brought to a meeting of the UN Security Council.
- According to the Foreign Ministry, russia is deliberately attacking residential buildings and critical infrastructure, which is part of its military strategy.
- Ukraine demands an immediate and decisive international response to russian brutality, in particular from the UN Security Council.
Ukraine will discuss the massive shelling by the aggressor country russia at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced this on Thursday, April 16.
Sybiha emphasized that russia deliberately attacks residential buildings and critical infrastructure as part of its military strategy. According to him, such attacks are planned in advance. This shows that when Ukraine offered to extend the Easter truce and give diplomacy a chance, the russian leadership had already approved plans for further killing of civilians.
“This attack claimed at least 15 lives, including a child, in Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro. More than 100 people were injured across the country. Russian brutality requires an immediate and decisive international response, in particular from the UN Security Council,” the Ukrainian Foreign Minister emphasized.
At the UN Security Council meeting scheduled for Monday, April 20, Ukraine will raise the issue of a tough UN Security Council response to state terror by russia, which still illegally occupies its permanent seat in the organization, Sybiha said.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on April 16, russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones, there are killed and injured in 5 districts of the capital.
Kyiv police officers came under repeated shelling by the aggressor country russia, which it carried out in the first minutes after the missile attack in the Obolonskyi District of the capital.
On April 16, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that russia is betting on war and does not deserve to ease its policy and lift sanctions.
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Life is strange. I often feel punished for being a (predominantly) good person. Many Ukrainians feel the same. I read the Holy Bible but failed to find an answer.
I’m the shepherd protecting the sheep in the middle of a fucking hellfire, yet luck is not on my side.
This is only a formality because the UN is completely useless.