Ukraine denounced Russia as a 'terrorist state' at an urgent United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday following its neighbor's latest attacks, as Western powers sought to underscore Moscow's isolation.
Ukraine denounced Russia as a"terrorist state" at an urgent United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday following its neighbour's latest attacks.US President Joe Biden, meanwhile, condemned the strikes in stark terms, saying they"demonstrate the utter brutality" of Putin's"illegal war".
"Russia has proven once again that this is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways," said Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's ambassador to the UN in his opening remarks, adding his own immediate family had come under attack.Unfortunately, you can hardly call for a stable and sane peace as long as an unstable and insane dictatorship exists in your vicinity.
Ahead of the General Assembly session, and with tensions at a boiling point, UN chief Antonio Guterres described Russia's attacks as an"unacceptable escalation of the war," his spokesman said. The resolution condemns Russia's"attempted illegal annexations" of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson following"so-called referendums," and it stresses these actions have"no validity under international law".
Nebenzya said that given the circumstances, the General Assembly should vote by secret ballot - a highly unusual procedure normally reserved for matters like electing the rotating members of the Security Council.But Albania tabled a resolution against a secret ballot, winning with 107 votes in favor, 13 against, and 39 abstentions. Russia lost a subsequent appeal to the motion.
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