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MADRID 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs, Miroslav Jenca, informed the UN Security Council this Wednesday about the “alarming signs” that in recent days point to an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, after the Russian attack with a ballistic missile against Dnipro.
During his speech before the advisory body, Jenca addressed “the most recent events of the conflagration that has already exceeded a thousand days and that has had an enormous humanitarian cost for the Ukrainian population.”
This statement comes after the Russian Army launched an attack last week with a medium-range ballistic missile, reaching the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, impacting in particular the industrial area located southwest of the town.
“According to Ukrainian authorities, the missile was equipped with six warheads, each containing six submunitions, and took only 15 minutes to arrive from the launch site in the Astrakhan region of Russia, about a thousand kilometers from Dnipro,” he said. told.
The undersecretary took the opportunity to condemn “all attacks against critical targets and infrastructure, regardless of the weapons system used,” while urging members of the Security Council to act to “reverse the dangerous cycle of escalation.”
In this sense, the undersecretary has urged “all parties involved” in the conflict whose “cost is already too high for Ukrainians and for the world” to adopt “immediate” measures to reduce hostilities and has urged them to “refrain of any action or rhetoric that could exacerbate it, causing greater suffering to the civilian population and putting peace and security” in the world at serious risk.
This requires “genuine political will and inclusive diplomatic efforts” that are in line with the United Nations Charter, international law and UN General Assembly resolutions.