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On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the United Nations Security Council to take action to halt Russian airstrikes on critical infrastructure that have once again plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as the winter began. ‘winter.
Russia launched a barrage of missiles across Ukraine earlier in the day, shutting down nuclear power plants and killing civilians in Kiev. “Today is just one day, but we have been targeted by up to 70 missiles. This is the Russian formula for terrorism,” Zelensky said via video link to the New York council, adding that hospitals, schools, transportation and residential areas were all shot.
He added that Ukraine was expecting a “very firm reaction” from the world to Wednesday’s strikes. The council is unlikely to take any action in response to the appeal because Russia has veto power. Zelensky has called for Russia to be denied a vote on any resolutions concerning his actions.
“We cannot be held hostage by a single international terrorist,” he said, “Russia is doing everything to make an energy generator a more powerful tool than the United Nations Charter.”
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Putin “clearly uses winter as a weapon to subject the Ukrainian people to enormous suffering”. You added that the Russian president “will try to freeze and subjugate the country”.
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia responded by rejecting what he called “reckless threats and ultimatums” from Ukraine and its backers in the West. Nebenzia said the damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure was caused by missiles fired from air defense systems that landed on civilian areas after being fired at Russian missiles and called on the West to stop supplying air defense missiles to Ukraine.
