When U.S. President Joe Biden takes the famed speakers rostrum at the United Nations Assembly Hall, he will do so under immense international scrutiny.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden's Ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters on Friday that a U.S. delegation will meet with a Ukrainian delegation on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. She said that no such meeting was planned with the Russian delegation.
"They have not indicated that they have an interest in diplomacy. What they're interested in is continuing to raise this unprovoked war on Ukraine," she told reporters during a press briefing at the United Nations. Michele Sison, assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the State Department, said the Biden administration did not view this year's General Assembly"as business as usual." "Russia's unprovoked, ongoing assault on Ukraine raises serious questions about its commitment to diplomacy, the U.N. Charter and the territorial integrity of nations," Sison said on a call with reporters. "A core message you're going to hear from leaders across the U.S. government next week is that respect for the core principles of the international order is needed now more than ever," national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House. In February, Russian troops launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine after nearly five months of a gradual military buildup along its ex-Soviet neighbor's borders.Smoke and dirt rise from shelling in the city of Severodonetsk this week."Severodonetsk remains the epicenter of the confrontation in Donbas," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said via Telegram, according to a translation. In the weeks leading up to the invasion, the Biden administration threatened sanctions in the hopes of deterring Russian PresidentIn the months since Washington and its allies have imposed a slew of coordinated sanctions, vaulting Russia past Iran and North Korea as the world's most-sanctioned country.Ukraine's smaller forces, equipped with Western weapons, have put up stunning advances in recent days against the Kremlin's mighty war machine.Russian President Vladimir Putin marks the Defender of the Fatheland Day in 2015 in central Moscow, Russia, with military officials surrounding him. Despite the hailed counteroffensive against Russia, the U.N. estimates the war has claimed nearly 6,000 civilian lives and resulted in more than 8,600 injuries. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, though, adds that the death toll in Ukraine is likely higher.estimate that it will cost at least $349 billionMeanwhile, the Biden administration has unleashed a war chest of more than $15 billion in aid to Kyiv through 21 separate security assistance packages. "We're going to continue to provide Ukraine with key capabilities to meet their evolving battlefield requirements, and they are evolving battlefield requirements," Kirby added on future U.S. security assistance. The Biden administration has also pledged to support international efforts at documenting Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. "We're going to continue to actively support efforts to document war crimes and atrocities that Russian forces commit in Ukraine and to assist national and international efforts to identify and hold Russians accountable," Kirby told reporters at the White House. Kirby's comments come on the heels of a grizzly discovery of more than 400 mass graves in the recently liberated eastern Ukrainian city of Izium. The revelation in Izium runs parallel to a finding in Bucha, Ukraine, in April.Also on CNBC
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