Kim Jong Un is personally supervising the training of troops being sent to Russia before their deployment to Ukraine. According to South Korean intelligence, the North Korean leader is closely monitoring the exercises,
Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian Federation's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said on 16 December that Russia does not accept any scenarios for freezing the war and that Moscow considers Zelenskyy's peace initiatives an attempt to gain time to intensify the fight against Russia.
Since the onset of the full-scale war initiated by Russia against Ukraine, the United Nations has documented the deaths of more than 12,300 civilians. Additionally, over 27,800 individuals have been injured,
Serhii Kyslytsia, Ukraine's representative to the United Nations, has said that the numerous war crimes and atrocities committed by Russia in the war against Ukraine are not isolated acts of violence but a policy of the Kremlin to systematically destroy the culture,
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make what's likely his final trip in office to the United Nations this week.
Visits and phone calls from European leaders to Vladimir Putin have been rare since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine, although Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban visited Russia in July, and Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer met with the Russian leader just weeks into the full-scale war.
At least three feminist activists have been detained for vandalising a monument outside the United Nations building in Geneva to protest Russia’s war against Ukraine and what they see as the UN's failure to stop the conflict.
Topless members of the Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen took chainsaws to a giant wooden sculpture outside the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, prompting police to intervene, witnesses said.
South Korea's military said on Monday that it has detected signs of North Korea preparing to send more troops and weapons, including suicide drones, to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. North Korea has already provided 240mm multiple rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled howitzers,
US hegemony and a resurgent challenge mounted by the Global South in the ongoing Legitimacy War with the West - Anadolu Ajansı
As 2024 nears its end, Moscow troops continue to make steady progress across the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, moving in on the towns of Pokrovsk and appearing to be closing in on Kurakhove further south.