On Sunday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an “emergency session” today for the United Nations General Assembly to take a position on the Russian war on Ukraine by its 193 members, while announcing the holding of a round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in the Belarusian-Ukrainian border area.

The resolution proposed by the United States and Albania was supported by 11 countries, while Russia voted against it and the United Arab Emirates, China and India abstained from voting, and the United Nations system does not allow the use of the veto in such a case.

This measure is based on a mechanism dating back to 1950 called the "Union for Peacekeeping." Moscow resorted last Friday to its veto to block a resolution put forward by the United States and Albania condemning the Russian invasion and calling for an immediate withdrawal from Ukraine.

And the text of the decision on Sunday stated that “in view of the fact that the absence of unanimity among its permanent members prevented it from exercising its primary responsibility in maintaining international peace and security”;

The Security Council decided to "call an emergency session of the General Assembly."

This session will be opened by the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and it will continue throughout the day at least.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister denied that his country planned any military attack in the Donbas region (Anatolia).

Warning of a security crisis

In his speech during the Security Council session, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned that Europe is facing the biggest security crisis since World War II.

The Ukrainian minister denied that his country planned any military attack in the Donbass region, and accused Russia of causing and escalating the crisis, and said that the Russian accusations against his country were unreasonable.

At the same meeting, the Russian delegate Vasily Nebenzia said that the whole of Ukraine would bear the cost of what he described as its military adventure in the Donbass.

He added that the Russian decision on Donetsk and Luhansk was a direct result of many years of sabotage by Ukraine of its obligations under the Minsk agreements.

The US delegate, Linda Thomas Greenfield, said that Russia alone will bear the responsibility for the results of the war that Putin chose to launch, and "if the Russian President (Vladimir Putin) chooses further escalation, Moscow alone will bear the consequences."

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, considered that the decision of the Russian Federation to recognize the so-called “independence” of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the subsequent violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine;

It contradicts the principles of the United Nations Charter.

Guterres said that the world is facing a moment of danger that he really hoped would not come, and that the time has come for restraint and calm, the adoption of a ceasefire and a return to the path of dialogue and negotiations to save the people in Ukraine and beyond from the scourge of war.


Border negotiations

Regarding the border negotiations between Belarus and Ukraine, the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the two sides will meet without preconditions.

Zelensky called on Ukrainians to act rationally to achieve the goal of ensuring the integrity and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

He added that although he did not really believe in the outcome of this meeting, he agreed to this step so that later no citizen of Ukraine would have any doubt that as president he tried to stop the war.

As for the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, he said that Kiev had agreed to send a delegation to the Belarusian border to listen to what Moscow wanted to say, stressing that the losses suffered by the Russian forces prompted Moscow to negotiate without preconditions, which he considered a victory for Kiev.

He appealed to the countries of the world to provide his country with more weapons to defend itself, and called on those wishing to join the fight alongside Ukraine to communicate with its embassies in the world.

The Russian President's aide said that Moscow is ready to negotiate with Kiev at any time throughout the day with the aim of reaching peace.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson questioned the Russian president's sincerity in entering negotiations with Ukraine, but added that he agreed that all means should be used to end the war.

impose emergency

Regarding the domestic situation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine unanimously approved the imposition of a state of emergency in the country, in response to the request of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

According to the state of emergency, the movement of vehicles will be restricted, government forces will be given the right to inspect cars, and the protection of public order and government facilities will be enhanced, and the decision to impose a state of emergency prohibits the organization of mass demonstrations.


European American support

Regarding US positions, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Washington would double its military aid to Ukraine in the event of a Russian war on Ukraine.

The State Department spokesman added that the administration of President Joe Biden is ready for dialogue, but it needs a serious Russian party, stressing that Washington is trying to avoid a large-scale war, and that it will do everything in its power to prevent it from happening.

At the Pentagon, US Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said that NATO membership is a matter for the alliance countries and the country concerned to decide, not something that Putin has a veto over.

The Pentagon spokesman added that if Putin chooses to go to war, it is difficult to predict where things will go.

Meanwhile, the European Union announced the closure of its airspace to Russia, and announced the financing of the purchase and delivery of weapons to Ukraine and the supply of its army with combat aircraft, as well as imposing sanctions on Belarus for its role in targeting Ukraine.

And the European Union's foreign and security policy chief, Josep Borrell, announced that the bloc's member states decided on Sunday to allocate 450 million euros to buy weapons and deliver them to the Ukrainian army to help it resist the Russian attack.

Borrell said that a meeting of EU defense ministers had been urgently called on Monday "to convert this funding into weapons and direct it to the front lines of the Ukrainian armed forces resisting the Russian invasion."

For its part, Germany announced that it would supply Kiev with 1,000 anti-tank missiles and increased its military spending;

In a historic shift for its defense policies.

The Russian president had warned that countries that support Ukraine would be attacked, and on Sunday announced that the Russian nuclear force was being put on alert.