Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the UN Security Council during the session, at which the issue of russia holding referendums on the territory of occupied Ukraine was discussed. “Russia’s recognition of the results of this so-called ‘referendum’ in the occupied territories will mean that there is nothing left to talk about with Putin,” Zelensky told the Council.
“It is a very cynical attempt to force the male population in the occupied territories of Ukraine to mobilize into the Russian army in order to send them to fight against their own countrymen,” he noted.
As reported by Suspilne, which was streaming an online session of the UN Security Council meeting, “Most of the member countries of the Security Council strongly condemned the so-called referendums.”
“India and China did not condemn the ‘referendums’ while calling for ‘peace’ and ‘dialogue’.”