{"id":170553,"date":"2022-04-04T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=170553"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T04:32:34","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-russia-seeks-un-security-council-meet-on-bucha-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=170553","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia seeks UN Security Council meet on Bucha, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/04\/04\/image-54133-1649045562.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Moscow has called for a special UN Security Council meeting Monday to address claims that Russian forces committed atrocities against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the light of heinous provocation of Ukrainian radicals in #Bucha Russia requested a meeting of UN #SecurityCouncil on Monday April 4,&#8221; Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia&#8217;s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine and Western leaders have erupted in outrage over the discovery of mass graves and hundreds of dead people in Bucha, a small town northwest of Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky directly blamed Moscow for the &#8220;killings&#8221; of civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia denied the accusations and said Kyiv staged footage of the corpses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior Washington official swiftly slammed Moscow&#8217;s UN move and said it was designed to &#8220;feign outrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Russia is drawing from the playbook it used for Crimea &amp; Aleppo: forced to defend the indefensible (here, the Bucha atrocities), Russia is calling a @UN Security Council meeting so it can feign outrage &amp; call for accountability,&#8221; tweeted Samantha Power, a former US ambassador to the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nobody is buying it,&#8221; added Power, who is the current administrator of the US Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN authorities have yet to publicly state whether a Security Council emergency meeting will take place Monday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Moscow has called for a special UN Security Council meeting Monday to address claims that Russian forces committed atrocities against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv. &#8220;In the light of heinous provocation of Ukrainian radicals in #Bucha Russia requested a meeting of UN #SecurityCouncil on Monday April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":170554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170555,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170553\/revisions\/170555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}