Latest Developments
- Estonian Prime Minister helps Ukraine’s bid to hitch NATO, EU
- China says it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet states
- Letter containing unknown substance was despatched to the French embassy in Moscow, the TASS news company mentioned Monday, citing regulation enforcement.
Ukrainian officers mentioned a Russian missile struck a museum within the metropolis of Kupiasnk on Tuesday, killing no less than one particular person and injuring 10 others.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Russia is doing all it might to destroy Ukraine’s historical past, tradition and its individuals.
“Killing Ukrainians with absolutely barbaric methods,” Zelenskyy mentioned after the Kupiansk assault. “We have no right to forget about it for a single second. We must and will respond!”
Zelenskyy mentioned these accountable for committing battle crimes “will definitely be brought to justice and it will be merciless.”
FILE – A person walks together with his bicycle via a procuring road destroyed by Russian strikes within the city of Kupiansk, Ukraine, Oct. 18, 2022.
Russian forces seized Kupiansk, an vital rail hub in northeastern Ukraine, in the course of the early a part of the invasion it launched in Ukraine final 12 months. Ukrainian forces took it again in September.
Grain deal
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed a “way forward” of the Black Sea Grain Deal to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia Threatens to Terminate Ukraine Grain Deal over Reports of G7 Export Ban
Guterres outlined his proposal in a letter to the Russian president on “the improvement, extension and expansion’ of a grain deal that would allow the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain, a U.N. spokesperson said on Monday after Guterres and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in New York.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Monday that an agreement between Moscow and the United Nations on Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports is not being fulfilled and there are ‘lots of details’ to be discussed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary-General Guterres.
Accusations, Divisions Overshadow Russian-led Security Council Meeting
The Kremlin has indicated it will not allow the deal – brokered by the U.N. and Turkey last year – to continue beyond May 18 unless Russia’s terms on its own grain and fertilizer exports are met.
The European Union and Japan have pushed back against a U.S. proposal for G-7 countries to ban all exports to Russia, the Financial Times reported Monday.
Lavrov did not answer questions on his way in or out of the 90-minute meeting with Guterres. ‘Don’t shout at me,’ he told reporters.
During the Security Council meeting Monday, Guterres said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is ‘causing massive suffering and devastation to Ukraine and its people’ and contributing to ‘global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.’
‘Tensions between major powers are at a historic high. So are the risks of conflict, through misadventure or miscalculation,’ he remarked.
Sitting next to the U.N. chief, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the council that the world is now in a more dangerous situation than even during the Cold War. ‘As during the Cold War, we have reached the dangerous, possibly even more dangerous, threshold,’ Lavrov said during the session on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security” that he was chairing.
Russia holds the month-to-month rotating presidency of the 15-member physique for April.
Some materials on this report got here from Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.