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United Nations Security Council to convene session on Ukraine today

"The UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine is scheduled today for 21:30 New York time and will be held in the format of an open briefing," the mission said.

Edited by: India TV News Desk New York Published : Feb 24, 2022 7:50 IST, Updated : Feb 24, 2022 7:54 IST
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United Nations Security Council to convene session on Ukraine today.

Highlights

  • An emergency session of UNSC on prevailing situation in Ukraine will commence soon
  • Ukraine requested an urgent United Nations Security Council Meet on Feb 23
  • The meeting was called after Heads of the Ukraine breakaway regions

An emergency session of the UN Security Council on the prevailing situation in Ukraine will begin at around 09.30 pm (as per New York time) on Wednesday, as per Russia's Permanent Mission to the UN.

"The UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine is scheduled today for 21:30 New York time and will be held in the format of an open briefing," the mission said.

Ukraine requested an urgent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Meet after Heads of the Ukraine breakaway regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, have asked the Russian President Vladimir Putin for help.

ALSO READ: Ukraine shuts airports, warns of airspace danger amid confrontation with Russia

Taking to Twitter, Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba said, "Ukraine has requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council due to the appeal by Russian occupation administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk to Russia with a request to provide them with military assistance which is a further escalation of the security situation."

Apart from Kuleba, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said that request for assistance from DPR, LPR breakaway regions is a "very dangerous additional step" that would put thousands of lives at risk.

Borrell in a tweet said, "The request for assistance by Moscow from the so-called DPR/LPR breakaway regions announces a very dangerous additional step against #Ukraine's sovereignty that would put thousands of lives at risk. The EU strongly urges #Russia to refrain from any further escalatory actions."

This comes at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the Ukraine breakaway regions following which Biden imposed sanctions on Russia and affirmed US' support to Ukraine.Putin after his announcement also ordered the sending of the Russian Armed Forces to Ukraine's breakaway regions.

In another key development, the Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, on Wednesday approved declaring a state of emergency in the whole country except for Donetsk and Luhansk regions amid the escalating situation at the country's borders. 

(With ANI inputs)

ALSO READ: Ukraine declares 30-day nationwide state of emergency amid war fears with Russia

 

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