The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Monday, January 12, dedicated to russia's latest massive air strikes on Ukraine.
This was announced by the AFP agency portal, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"The russian federation has reached a horrific new level of war crimes and crimes against humanity with its terror against the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine," Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Andrii Melnyk said in a letter to the Security Council.
After the russian strikes on January 9 on a number of regions of Ukraine, in which the Oreshnik missile was used and which led to large-scale power outages in Kyiv, Ukraine initiated an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
Latvia also joined these demands.
"Latvia will seek to convene an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council in response to russia's barbaric attack on Ukraine, including the use of a medium-range ballistic missile near the EU and NATO border," the country's Foreign Minister Baiba Braže wrote on the social network X.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on the night of Friday, January 9, russian troops launched 278 air attack vehicles - 36 missiles and 242 UAVs of various types - over the territory of Ukraine, air defense forces managed to neutralize 244 air targets: 18 missiles and 226 UAVs.
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