Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba attends a news briefing following talks with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria in Kyiv, Ukraine February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/PoolUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba attends a news briefing following talks with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria in Kyiv, Ukraine February 8, 2022.
Ukraine’s top diplomat, Kuleba, spoke during an annual meeting on his country in the General Assembly after contacts with the leadership of the US Government including President, Joe Biden, in Washington a day earlier. It was the turn of the General Assembly to weigh in on the escalating situation in eastern Ukraine after Russian troops entered the Donbas region under the guise of a peacekeeping operation, a term rejected by the UN Chief as pressure builds on the international community to act.
“The situation deteriorates every day. And no one can allow waiting until it’s too late. As foreign minister, I do my best to avoid a situation when the world reacts to the war only after Ukrainian blood will be spilled. I do not want my compatriots to pay their lives and sufferings for the reluctance, for the cautiousness, for the inability to act by other governments or international organizations.