UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has taken a tour of towns and villages outside Kyiv while visiting Ukraine, decrying the absurdity of war.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited towns and villages outside the capital of Kyiv, during his visit to Ukraine.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited sites of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, decrying war as "an absurdity in the 21st century" and urging Russia to cooperate with an international investigation into atrocities.
"The UN is fully mobilised to help save Ukrainian lives and to assist those in need," UN in Ukraine Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator Osnat Lubrani wrote on Twitter.With the war, now into a third month and claiming thousands of lives, Kyiv has admitted that Russian forces are making gains in the east, capturing a string of villages in the Donbas region.
Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov conceded the country faces "extremely difficult weeks" as Moscow tries "to inflict as much pain as possible". Russia has also in recent days targeted Western-supplied arms, as the United States and Europe increasingly heed Mr Zelenskyy's call for heavier firepower.
"The tendency to pump weapons, including heavy weapons into Ukraine -- these are the actions that threaten the security of the continent, provoke instability," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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