Zelensky called on the UN Secretary General to deprive Russia of the right to vote in the Security Council

Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyMOSCOW, February 26 Volodymyr Zelensky said that in a conversation with UN Secretary General António Guterres deprive Russia of the right to vote in the Security Council of the organization and recognize its actions in Ukraine as «genocide», while the Secretary General does not have such powers. «Deprive the aggressor country of the right to vote in the UN Security Council, qualify Russian actions and statements as genocide of Ukrainians,» Zelensky wrote in Twitter, adding that he had discussed these issues with the UN Secretary General.Zelensky claims that Europe has agreed on Russia's disconnection from SWIFTEarlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasyl Nebenzya, said that Russia considers the UN Secretary General's statements about the situation in eastern Ukraine to be inconsistent with his status and powers. Nebenzya stressed that there was not a single conflict when the Secretary General of the organization «allowed himself to make such statements in relation to any country.» At the same time, «on the situation in Ukraine, the Secretary General has never raised his voice in favor of the need to fulfill those requirements of the Minsk package of measures of UN Security Council Resolution 2202, which directly require solving all problems by agreement between Kiev, Donetsk and Luhansk,» the Russian Permanent Representative noted. In the morning On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided on a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» According to the Russian leader, all responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine. He urged the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, lay down their arms and go home. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the Russian Armed Forces do not launch any missile, air or artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure, air defense facilities are disabled by high-precision weapons , military airfields and aviation. The ministry assured that the civilian population is not in danger.