Ukraine convenes UN Security Council because of russian terror and human casualties

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.

© 2026 Ukrainian News Agency

6 comments

  1. 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.

      • I often feel like that too Mike. All the places I’ve visited and none are as beautiful and innocent as Ukraine…yet…it is Ukraine that suffers. You can feel it in the air and on the ground. There must be a reason for it, and we will keep fighting for it to be sure.

    • True but its important to put these mutherfuckers on the record that vote against it. Its bad enough the UN put frigging Iran on the Human Rights council, which was one of the reasons Trump pulled the US funding for it. Ukraine is showing how worthless many of these retirement clubs are.

      • Of all the bullshit that the orange crook has doe, he could do something usefull and pull us out of this money-burning organization. Maybe keep the usefull parts alive, but trash the main body filled with corrupt no good doers.

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