The meeting of the UN Security Council was another important step to deter Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine. This was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

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Russia tried to disrupt the meeting, but its efforts were unsuccessful - the preventive diplomacy of the Security Council allows it to consider any situation that threatens international peace and security.

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Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslitsa said that Ukraine is not going to carry out any offensive operation either in the zone of the Ukrainian-Russian armed conflict in the Donbass or on the border with the Russian Federation, and will do everything possible to prevent any provocations from Russia.

During the meeting, the delegation of Ukraine stressed that the Ukrainian side requires the Russian Federation to confirm by practical actions Russian statements about the absence of intentions to expand armed aggression against Ukraine.

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It is also noted that the thesis of the Russian delegation about the unwillingness to see Ukraine in NATO contradicts the inalienable sovereign right of Ukraine to choose its own security measures, including treaties on alliances, which Russia has no right to question..

Attempts by individual members of the Security Council to present the discussion as a confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation are nothing more than an attempt to divert the attention of the international community from the aggressive actions of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and Europe as a whole..

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