Ukraine Hit By Russian Shelling Amid UN Spotlight: Report
Shelling hit South Ukraine on Saturday night while Russia tried to defend the old seven -month war in the United Nations even when he moved to increase conflict.
Kyiv and Western countries said that the referendum in Russia had used forcibly was fake designed to justify the increase in hostility with newly recruited troops, after the battlefield losses in Ukraine in recent weeks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to the US General Assembly and the world press on Saturday, giving opposition to Russian attacks on his neighbors as limited to Washington and countries under his authority. Nearly three -quarters of the state in the assembly chose to reprimand Russia and demanded that it withdrew his troops shortly after the anniversary of February 24.
Kyiv and Moscow were traded for shooting in the Zaporizhhia Ukraine region on Saturday.
Regional Governor Oleksandr Starukh said about the telegram that Russian troops launched a “big missile strike” in the region from around 10 aircraft, injured at least three people.
Ria Ria’s State News Agency, quoting an unnamed source, said Ukrainian troops fired on warehouses and fertilizers in the region.
Reuters cannot verify the claims of both parties.
Lavrov, in a press conference after his speech at the Assembly in New York, said the Ukraine region where the votes were ongoing would be under the “full protection” of Moscow if they were annexed by Russia, including with nuclear weapons.
The seven industrial economy group said they would not recognize the sound results.
Ukraine asked the US Security Council meeting on the referendum, accused Russia of violating the US Charter by trying to change the border of Ukraine, a spokesman for the Oleg Foreign Ministry Nikolenko on Twitter.
Putin on Wednesday ordered the country’s first mobilization since the Second World War, an announcement that made some Russian men go quickly to the border, with traffic in the Frontier crossing with Finland and Georgia soaring and the price of plane tickets from Moscow Rocketing.
More than 2,000 people have been detained in Russia for protesting the design, including 798 people who were detained in 33 cities on Saturday, according to the OVD-Info independent monitoring group.
Frustration has even spread to the Pro-Kremlin media, with one editor on the RT news channel managed by the government complaining that problems such as summons sent to the wrong man are “People who make angry.”
When asked on Saturday why so many Russians left the country, Lavrov pointed to the right to freedom of movement.
