The UN Security Council has convened a meeting following the strike on a bus carrying Belarusian children in Russia’s Bryansk region. Belarus requested the meeting in a letter submitted on June 26, and the request was supported by Russia. The session began today at 10:00 p.m. Minsk time.
Earlier, Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ruslan Varankou said that Minsk would use the Security Council as a platform to “present its view of what happened to the international community” and would call for an “objective and impartial international investigation.” The Belarusian side also intends to draw the Council’s attention to statements by Volodymyr Zelenskyy regarding a “readiness to strike Belarusian territory.”
As a permanent member of the Security Council, Russia addressed the meeting. Russia’s Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Anna Yevstigneeva, said that Russia’s Investigative Committee was treating the incident as a terrorist attack against civilians and claimed that evidence found at the scene indicated that the drone involved was Ukrainian. She also accused Ukraine of attacking civilian targets in Russia and spoke about what she described as the Russian army’s successes on the battlefield.
