UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced Russia’s fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine and called for a four-day truce to mark Orthodox Holy Week.
UNITED NATIONS, United States — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday denounced Russia’s fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine and called for a four-day truce to mark Orthodox Holy Week.Russia launched dozens of air strikes across eastern Ukraine, as a new phase of the bloody conflict opened with fighting raging in the Donbas region.
“The intense concentration of forces and firepower makes this battle inevitably more violent, bloody and destructive,” he said, calling for a “humanitarian pause” from Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday on April 24. Russia’s military campaign refocused on Donbas, which pro-Moscow separatists have partly controlled since 2014, after its efforts to capture the capital Kyiv were thwarted.
The UN Security Council also met again Tuesday to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and neighboring countries.
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