Ukraine war: UN chief condemns invasion ahead of anniversary

UN caput António Guterres has condemned Russia's penetration of Ukraine arsenic an "affront" to the world's corporate conscience astatine a gathering of the General Assembly astir 1 twelvemonth on.

The gathering was debating a question backed by Ukraine and its allies demanding Russia propulsion retired instantly and unconditionally.

Ukraine hopes that by supporting the question countries volition amusement solidarity.

The Kremlin has accused the West of wanting to decision Russia astatine immoderate cost.

Vasily Nebenzya, the Kremlin's ambassador to the UN, said the US and its allies were prepared to plunge the full satellite into war.

The devastating warfare that ensued has near astatine slightest 7,199 civilians dormant and thousands of others injured, according to a UN estimate, portion Russia and Ukraine person each seen astatine slightest 100,000 of their soldiers killed oregon injured, according to the US military.

More than 13 cardinal radical were made refugees overseas oregon displaced wrong Ukraine.

Mr Putin's assertion that his cognition was needed to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine, a state with historical ties to Russia, was dismissed by Ukraine and its allies arsenic a ruse for an unprovoked attack.

"That penetration is an affront to our corporate conscience," Mr Guterres told the General Assembly. "It is simply a usurpation of the United Nations Charter and planetary law."

The imaginable consequences of a "spiralling conflict" were, helium said, a "clear and contiguous danger".

Mr Guterres said the warfare was "fanning determination instability and fuelling planetary tensions and divisions, portion diverting attraction and resources from different crises and pressing planetary issues".

There had, helium said, been "implicit threats to usage atomic weapons".

"It is precocious clip to measurement backmost from the brink," helium said.

"Complacency volition lone deepen the crisis, portion further eroding our shared principles proclaimed successful the Charter. War is not the solution. War is the problem. People successful Ukraine are suffering enormously. Ukrainians, Russians and radical acold beyond request peace."

Sixty countries person sponsored the resolution, which stresses "the request to reach, arsenic soon arsenic possible, a comprehensive, conscionable and lasting bid successful Ukraine successful enactment with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations."

In his code to the federation connected Tuesday, Mr Putin besides announced Russia's determination to suspend a cardinal atomic arms pact aft US President Joe Biden, caller from a astonishment sojourn to Kyiv, praised Western ideology for lasting up to Russian aggression.

Mr Biden has called the determination to suspend the treaty, designed by the US and Russia successful 2010 to forestall atomic war, a big mistake.

On Wednesday, Mr Putin met China's apical overseas argumentation official, Wang Yi, successful Moscow and said co-operation with Beijing was "very important to stabilise the planetary situation". The sojourn marked an extremity to China's assertion to neutrality regarding the warfare successful Ukraine.