Permanent mission of Russia: meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine scheduled for 5.30 Moscow time

UNSCUN, Feb 24 to journalists at the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the UN. «The UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine is scheduled today for 21.30 pm New York and will be held in the format of an open briefing,» the mission said. Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the Ukrainian authorities had requested an urgent meeting of the Council UN Security Council in connection with the appeal of the LNR and the DNR to Russia «with a request for military support.» Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday evening that the heads of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin and the Lugansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik turned to Vladimir Putin with a request, in order to avoid civilian casualties and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Donbass, to provide assistance in repelling aggression from the armed forces of Ukraine.AFU shelled three settlements in the DPR in 15 minutes, Donetsk saidPosted by Maxim Gorbachev