UNITED NATIONS
\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine at the UN Security Council on Thursday as the United Nations warned Moscow against annexing Ukrainian regions and Western ministers called for accountability over atrocities.
\nLavrov was only in the council chamber to deliver his address to the meeting of the 15-member body, which was attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Lavrov did not listen to anyone else speak.
\n\u201cI noticed today that Russian diplomats flee as aptly as Russian forces,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Security Council meeting on accountability in Ukraine.
\nThe council, which was meeting on Ukraine for at least the 20th time this year, has been unable to take meaningful action because Russia is a permanent veto-wielding member along with the United States, France, Britain and China.
\nLavrov accused Kyiv of threatening Russia\u2019s security and \u201cbrazenly trampling\u201d the rights of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine, adding that it all \u201csimply confirms the decision to conduct the special military operation was inevitable.\u201d
\nUkraine\u2019s Kuleba said: \u201cThe amount of lies coming from Russian diplomats is quite extraordinary.\u201d
\nLavrov said countries supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its soldiers were parties to the conflict, adding that \u201cthe intentional fomenting of this conflict by the collective West remained unpunished.\u201d
\nBlinken pledged that Washington would continue to support Ukraine to defend itself.
\n\u201cThe very international order we\u2019ve gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. We can\u2019t let President Putin get away with it,\u201d he told the council, which met during the annual gathering of world leaders for the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine at the UN Security Council on Thursday as the United Nations warned Moscow against annexing Ukrainian regions and Western ministers called for accountability over atrocities. Lavrov was only in the council chamber to deliver his address to the meeting of the 15-member body, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n