UN General Assembly holds emergency meeting ahead of vote to isolate Russia over Ukraine invasion

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly held an emergency session on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Monday as President Vladimir Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert.

The General Assembly will vote this week on a draft resolution to isolate Russia by deploring its “aggression against Ukraine” and demanding Russian troops stop fighting and withdraw on Friday.

12:40 Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya described Putin’s order to put Russian nuclear forces on alert as madness.

“If he wants to kill himself he doesn’t have to use a nuclear arsenal, he has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in 1945,” he said, referencing Adolf Hitler’s suicide in a Berlin bunker.

Kyslytsya told the General Assembly, “”If Ukraine does not survive, international peace will not survive. If Ukraine does not survive, the United Nations will not survive, have no illusions.”

Five days in, Russian forces have seized two small cities in southeastern Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhya area, which is home to a nuclear power plant, the Interfax news agency said Monday. Ukraine has denied the nuclear plant has fallen into Russian hands.

Russian forces are closing in on Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, but have not yet taken the city.

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