“The UN Security Council will convene on Ukraine’s Independence Day to discuss the consequences of russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The discussion will focus on russia’s ongoing and intensifying missile and drone terror against civilians across Ukraine. The strike on a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih on Friday, which killed 16 people and injured 130, including more than 20 children, was a horrifying reminder of russia’s deliberate attacks on families, rescuers, and critical civilian infrastructure”, - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on August 23.
According to him, the issue of russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukrainian ports and obstruction of grain exports will also be raised — actions that exacerbate the global food crisis and put millions of people far beyond Ukraine at risk.
“I am grateful to Denmark, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council, and to my colleague Lars Løkke Rasmussen for convening these emergency debates”, - Sybiha also noted.