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Western members of the Security Council, led by the United States, criticized Russia for missile attacks on Ukraine on Wednesday, at a meeting a day after a missile NATO claims was a stray fired from Ukraine’s air defenses went down in Poland. Security Council members at the meeting also called on Russia to extend the Black Sea grain deal, which is expected to be extended on Saturday unless there are objections.
The United States and its allies in the United Nations Security Council criticized Russia’s missile attacks on Wednesday Ukraine, In a session held the following day Rockets fall in Poland.
NATO and NATO member Poland said the missile may have been a stray missile fired by Ukraine’s air defenses rather than a Russian attack, easing international fears the war could widen.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky objected to this, saying there was no doubt the missile was not Ukrainian.
Two people were killed by a missile in a Polish village near the Ukraine-Poland border on Tuesday, the same day Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine, affecting its power grid and exacerbating disruptions of electricity for millions of people. The Kiev government said it was the heaviest missile barrage in the nine-month war.
“This tragedy would not have happened without the unnecessary Russian invasion of Ukraine and its recent rocket attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure,” Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the Security Council.
“Ukraine has every right to defend itself against this barrier,” he added. The British and Polish ambassadors to the United Nations supported the claim that the Russian invasion was ultimately responsible for the missile landing in Poland.
On the contrary, the Russian ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said at the meeting: “We have long ceased to be surprised by your attempts under any circumstances, despite the facts or logic, to blame Russia for everything “.
Security Council members at the meeting called on Russia to extend the Black Sea grain deal, which is expected to be extended on Saturday unless there are objections. Moscow suspended its participation in the pact in late October but rejoined four days later, easing fears of further disruptions to grain exports from one of the world’s biggest suppliers at a time of rampant global food price inflation and food shortages .
France 24/Reuters
