As the U.N. Security Council met in emergency session in response to ongoing military attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia should be labeled a “terrorist state” and questioned the legitimacy of its participation in the meeting – and in the U.N. in general.
In a little reported but intriguing struggle in New York, Russia is tussling with North Macedonia for a vacant seat on an influential United Nations body, as the invasion of Ukraine continues to impact Moscow’s global standing.
"The balance in the Middle East is too delicate just to ruin it because of Ukraine," retired Soviet and Russian lieutenant-general Evgeny Buzinshkiy told Newsweek.