Ukraine urges Russia to withdraw from UN

Ukraine on Monday called for Russia to be expelled from the United Nations, more than ten months after the invasion by Russian troops, with little chance of success, and Moscow has a veto in the UN Security Council.

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“Ukraine calls on the UN member states (…) to strip the Russian Federation of its permanent membership of the UN Security Council and expel it from the UN as a whole,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

According to Ukrainian diplomacy, since 1991 Russia has “illegally occupied the seat of the Soviet Union in the UN Security Council” and displaced the Soviet Union as 15 new countries.

The Ukrainian ministry argued that Russia was a “usurper of the Soviet Union’s seat” at the United Nations.

This “three decades of illegal presence at the UN has been marked by wars and the seizure of territories from other countries, the forced transfer of internationally recognized borders and attempts to fulfill its neo-imperialist ambitions,” kyiv lamented in this publication.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba hammered him in a tweet, calling Russia’s “illegal presence in the Security Council and the UN as a whole.”

Kyiv has been facing the Russian armada on the ground for ten months and already since 2014, pro-Russian separatists backed and armed by Moscow in Donbass, eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine said on Monday it would begin “a complicated process” with Russia holding veto power at the UN Security Council, which could block any resolution emanating from another member state of the forum.