United Nations chief Antoine Guterres told the General Assembly on Wednesday the world is 'facing a moment of peril' over Ukraine's crisis with Russia. 'I truly hoped it would not come.'
— The United Nations General Assembly gathered Wednesday for a session dedicated to discussion of the crisis unfolding on's borders, with a record number of speakers slated to address what the United States says is already a Russian invasion. Among the senior officials expected to address the assembly were Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who is a member of President Joe Biden's cabinet.
On Tuesday, Guterres said the U.N."and the entire international system are being tested, and we must pass this test." The U.N. chief has called for an"immediate ceasefire" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, where a simmering eight-year war between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forcesRussian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally recognized the breakaway regions of Donbas, Luhansk and Donetsk, as independent of Ukraine on Tuesday, and ordered his forces to enter the areas for"peacekeeping" duties.
"If the United Nations fails to deliver on its mandate and its flagship mission, it should be overhauled," Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told CBS News this week. "As much as we all want Russia to de-escalate and choose the path of peace, that is not our decision to make," the U.S.' Thomas-Greenfield said on Wednesday."This is President Putin's war of choice.
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