The 193-member United Nations General Assembly began meeting on the crisis in Ukraine on Monday ahead of a vote this week to isolate Russia by deploring its 'aggression against Ukraine' and demanding Russian troops stop fighting and withdraw.
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 - The 193-member United Nations General Assembly began meeting on the crisis in Ukraine on Monday ahead of a vote this week to isolate Russia by deploring its "aggression against Ukraine" and demanding Russian troops stop fighting and withdraw.
French U.N. Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere said: "No one can avert their gaze, abstention is not an option." Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya described Putin's order to put Russian nuclear forces on alert as "madness."
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