United Nations headquarters in New YorkUN, Mar 8 UN staff, in Moscow, held consultations on Tuesday with Russian colleagues on further information exchange on Ukraine, UN Secretary General Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman, said at a briefing. On Monday, UN Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said that a group of UN staff would hold consultations at the Russian Defense Ministry on further coordination on humanitarian corridors in Ukraine.
Zelensky's office said the UN is «always hiding in the bushes»» Colleagues in Moscow held discussions today which focused on information sharing and standard procedures for the humanitarian notification system,» Dujarric said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
