The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday evening at the request of Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in eastern Ukraine, telling the West not to intervene in what appeared to be the beginning of war in Europe.
Putin said in an early televised speech Thursday the action was in response to threats coming from Ukraine, yet insisted Russia doesn’t have a goal to occupy the country.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Putin to “give peace a chance” and stop troops from entering Ukraine.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vassily Nebenzia later confirmed the operation in Donbas at the meeting, but admitted he did not have all the details on what was unfolding. He insisted, however, that military action was meant to end years of conflict in the region.
Ukraine’s ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya confronted Nebenzia and the rest of the council, calling on the U.N. to “stop the war.”
Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, called what is happening “a grotesque war crime.”
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