Under the agenda item “Maintaining Peace and Security in Ukraine,” Council members will also present their views on the impact of the confrontations on the civilian population, particularly women and children, a draft note from the meeting said.
The meeting will be attended by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous and United Nations Children’s Fund Office for Emergencies Manuel Fontaine, among others.
For the first time since war broke out on February 24, a civil society representative will brief the Council on Ukraine.
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, nearly 1,800 Ukrainian civilians have died and more than 2,400 have been injured since the military operation began on February 24.
For their part, the United States and Western powers point out that the Moscow government is responsible for alleged abuses by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians, which the Kremlin firmly denies and denounces the machinations that blame its army.
The day before, the head of Russia’s National Defense Control Center, Colonel-General Mijaíl Mizíntsev, assured that Kyiv is preparing new actions against civilians in order to hold his country’s armed forces to account.
Speaking to the press, Mizintsev stated that Western countries were involved in the “monstrous and reckless actions” and were being executed on the territory of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic.
He specified that in the city of Ragovka in the Kyiv region plans are being made to shoot staged films about searching and opening mass graves of civilians allegedly killed by the Russian military.
On April 5, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of alleged war crimes in the city of Bucha before the UN Security Council, and Moscow condemned Kiev’s handling of such a sensitive issue.
According to the President of Ukraine via video conference, Russian troops committed war crimes on the territory of his country and presented a video with alleged evidence.
Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasili Nebenzia, replied Zelenskyy that “the unfounded allegations against the Russian military must rest on their conscience, which is not confirmed by any eyewitnesses”.
Today, many lies have been spread about Russian soldiers and military officials, but hundreds of people have witnessed the cruelty of Ukrainian radicals and nationalists, and now Kyiv wants to blame the Moscow army, the diplomat stressed.
Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 after authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics requested help to repel rising aggression and intense bombing in Kiev.
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