Russia’s imperialist warmongering is a threat to international peace and security: UK Statement at the UN Security Council

For three and a half years, the world has witnessed a permanent member of this Council engaged in the full-scale, and unprovoked invasion of another state, a violation of its most basic obligations under the UN Charter.

As President Trump and President Zelenskyy have worked for peace, the Russian Federation has starkly escalated its attacks.

Attacks on the Council of Ministers, on the British Council building and repeated attacks on residential flats and homes as children sleep in their beds.

We meet today now, at the request of Estonian allies, because Russia’s recklessness is escalating.

In the last two weeks alone, over 20 Russian drones in Polish airspace, a drone through Romanian territory and now three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets, with their transponders turned off, violating Est