Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andrii Melnyk called on nuclear powers, including the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and China, not to ignore the joint military exercises conducted by Russia and Belarus.
He made the statement on Tuesday, May 19, during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, according to an Ukrinform correspondent in New York.
Melnyk stressed that the Kremlin’s statements about strength are accompanied by nuclear blackmail.
He referred to the announced test of the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental missile, capable of carrying up to 16 nuclear warheads, and stated that Russia regularly resorts to nuclear threats in response to setbacks on the battlefield.
The Ukrainian envoy also criticized the Russian-Belarusian nuclear drills, calling them “an unprecedented challenge to global security.”
