The UN Security Council did not accept the draft resolution submitted by Russia on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

“Russia is attempting to use this Council to provide cover for its brutal actions. It really is unconscionable that Russia would have the audacity to put forward a resolution asking the international community to solve a humanitarian crisis that Russia alone created.

The United States intends to abstain on this text because, to state the obvious, Russia does not care about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions, or the millions of lives and dreams the war has shattered. If they cared, they would stop fighting. Russia is the aggressor, the attacker, the invader – the sole party in Ukraine engaged in a campaign of brutality against the people of Ukraine – and they want us to pass a resolution that does not acknowledge their culpability.

We have all seen the pervasive videos of millions of Ukrainian women and children fleeing for their lives. We have seen the images of bloodied pregnant women being carried out of the rubble, including a mother and her baby who tragically died two weeks ago. We have seen the shelling of kindergartens, orphanages, and humanitarian corridors; attacks hitting apartment buildings, gas and water pipelines, and a nuclear power plant; shootings of people waiting in bread lines. We have seen cities under siege and corpses in the streets and journalists killed in the crossfire. We have seen shelling by Putin’s forces kill a 96-year-old holocaust survivor in Kharkiv, Ukraine. And if we are to believe Russia’s disinformation, these are all movie sets with actors”, - said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations.