United Nations Security Council holds meeting to discuss situation in Ukraine.
The United Nations called for an immediate ceasefire by all parties involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. UN Secretary General António Guterres urged “maximum restraint and initiating dialogue.” “Diplomacy and dialogue must prevail,” he said at the 11th Emergency Special Session on the ongoing crisis.
António Guterres, UN secretary general, called for an immediate ceasefire after declaring the 11th Emergency Special Session on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis. He noted that dialogue is needed and to exercise maximum restraint.
“Escalating violence is contributing to civilians’ death. Enough is enough. Soldiers need to go back to barracks,” Civilians must be protected, Guterres said. The special session began with a minute of silence.
Sergei Kislitsa, Ukraine‘s Representative to the UN said so far 352 people, including 16 children, were killed in his country during the ongoing conflict. “These numbers are growing nonstop, shelling continues.Hundreds more wounded when Russian forces began firing at civilian areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Oleh Synehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, called the attacks “a war crime,” saying “the Russian enemy is shelling entire residential areas of Kharkiv, where there is no critical infrastructure, where there are no positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the Russians could aim at.” Delegations from Ukraine and Russia met in Belarus on Monday morning in an attempt to negotiate a ceasefire, as Russia’s stock exchange remains closed and the ruble plummets.
