The Russian Federation assumed presidency of the United Nations Security Council on April 1, as Moscow wages war on Ukraine, in a move that Ukraine’s president said showed its “total bankruptcy.”
Russia last held the post at the intergovernmental body, which is tasked with maintaining peace and combating acts of international aggression, in February 2022 when President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of neighboring Ukraine in violation of Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter.
The presidency of the U.N. council rotates alphabetically among its 15 members every month.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called Russia’s presidency of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) a “slap in the face to the international community.”…