Prague refuses to attend UN Security Council meeting called by Moscow over alleged Ukrainian attack on Belgorod
Prague has refused to attend a UN Security Council meeting called by Moscow over an alleged Ukrainian attack on Belgorod on Dec. 30, amid the Russian Defense Ministry claims that Czech-made Vampire RM-70 multiple rocket launchers were involved.
“We also insist on the presence of Czech PR to the UN to explain why this country’s ammunition is being used for killing civilians in Belgorod,” Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, wrote on X (Twitter) on Dec. 30.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, however, said his country would not attend the meeting and called Russia's statement propaganda.
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"We refuse to be summoned anywhere by Russia,” Lipavsky wrote in response.
“Czechia will not serve the lie-poisoned propaganda of the aggressor. When Russia wants to discuss the withdrawal of its occupying troops at the Security Council, we will be happy to come.”
Ukrainian forces struck military facilities in the Russian city of Belgorod in response to Russia’s mass missile and drone attack against Ukraine on Dec. 29, Ukrainian news outlet RBC-Ukraine reported on Dec. 30, citing a source in Ukraine’s intelligence services.
"These are joint measures that were the result of the barbaric shelling of Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odesa, and the killing of civilians,” the RBC source said.
Twenty-two people were killed in the Russian city of Belgorod, the regional Governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, claimed on Telegram after the Ukrainian drone attack on enemy military facilities.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were targeting military facilities in Russia that day, but the unprofessionalism of the Russian air defense over downtown Belgorod resulted in casualties from the intercepted drone debris, several Ukrainian media outlets wrote, citing the intelligence sources.
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