The United States is calling on other nations in the U.N. Security Council to tell Russia to stop making nuclear threats and end “the horror” of its war in Ukraine
for the first time since World War II. At the same time, President Vladimir Putin said his nuclear-armed country will"use all means available to us" to defend itself if its territory is threatened.plans for referendumsWestern nations have condemned those votes as illegitimate and nonbinding. But, in their wake, Moscow might then see any Ukrainian attempt to retake those areas as an attack on “Russian territory,” Blinken warned.
“What's particularly cynical is the position of states that are pumping Ukraine full of weapons and training their soldiers," he said, maintaining that their goal is to prolong fighting “to wear down and weaken Russia.” “That President Putin picked this week, as most of the world gathers at the United Nations, to add fuel to the fire he started shows his utter contempt and disdain for the U.N. Charter, the U.N. General Assembly and this council," Blinken told foreign ministers around the council's famous horseshoe-shaped table.
But the meeting was still a rare moment for top diplomats from Ukraine and Russia to appear in the same room — made all the more extraordinary for the fact that Lavrov is under U.S. sanctions. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he thought Lavrov didn't care to hear “the collective condemnation of this council.”
. He cited the discovery of mass graves in Ukraine and repeated allegations from Ukrainians that they were tortured by Russian soldiers, while suggesting that more could come.into possible crimes amid the war and sent teams to gather evidence. Prosecutor Karim Khan told the council Thursday that he's dispatching more ICC staffers next week to look into allegations emerging from eastern Ukraine.
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