UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council held a minute of silence on Friday (Feb 24) for victims of the war in Ukraine as Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Russia's invasion had devastated the country. 'Life is a living hell for the people of Ukraine,' Guterres told the council as it met t
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council held a minute of silence on Friday for victims of the war in Ukraine as Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Russia's invasion had devastated the country.
"Since then, it has used the most extreme violence to deny the identity of a country and a people," she said. An elderly local resident walks past a destroyed residential building in Chasiv Yar, Eastern Ukraine. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has already documented"dozens" of cases of sexual violence against men, women and girls that is tied to the war, he noted.
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