Russia’s war against Ukraine was not caused by the failure of OSCE’s tools for conflict prevention or any other international mechanism. Russia simply made the choice to launch a war of aggression despite all OSCE’s efforts to the contrary.
Russia has started to hide its strategic bombers, which are used to launch missile attacks on Ukraine, deep into the country, as Ukrainian forces can reach and destroy them.
Russia has not been a peace-loving state for a long time, so it does not meet the main criterion of the United Nations. Ukraine legitimately raises questions about Russia's exclusion from the UN.
Ukraine wants to hold a peace summit at the UN site late February, while Russia is not invited to attend as the Kremlin does not seek peace and must first be held accountable for war crimes.
Russia is systematically blocking the decisions of the United Nations. Since 1991, Russia has used its veto in the UN Security Council 31 times, almost twice as many as any other permanent member of the Security Council.
Ukraine initiates a complex process in order to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the United Nations as a whole.
Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defense units have destroyed about 70 drones from the second unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) shipment that Russia received from Iran and had been using to attack the territory of Ukraine over the past two weeks.
United States Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink has condemned Russia’s another brutal attack on the city of Kherson, leaving at least eight civilians killed and dozens injured.
A woman, 40, has been killed in Russia’s artillery strike on the Zaporizhzhia region’s Polohy district. Additionally, Russian projectiles caused damage to a historical building in Huliaipole.
In response to Russia’s deadly attack on the city of Kherson, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called on the Western partners and allies of Ukraine to provide active and lasting support.