This was stated by UN Secretary General António Guterres at a press conference following a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv.

“General Santos Cruz is a respected officer with more than 40 years of service in a national capacity and in international organizations, including as commander of UN peacekeeping operations,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the detention center in Yelenovka with captured Ukrainian soldiers and militants located there using the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.

According to Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Russia intends to bring international experts and journalists to the site of the strike by the Ukrainian military on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.