Ukraine has appealed to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, who is chairing the UN Security Council in March, with a request to convene a meeting due to the intensification of Russia’s missile terror against the country.
This was reported by Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk.
“I have just signed a letter to the President of the Security Council, my colleague—the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, Mike Waltz—requesting the convening of a Security Council meeting dedicated to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” the diplomat said.
He explained to the Council President that the ongoing war of destruction waged by Moscow against Ukraine continues to cause immense human suffering and widespread devastation, posing a serious threat to international peace and security.
“Since the beginning of 2026, the Russian Federation has significantly intensified its campaign of deliberate and systematic missile terror against civilians, deliberately targeting critical infrastructure, hospitals, and schools across Ukraine,” Melnyk noted.
In particular, he informed Waltz that on March 14, the Russian army carried out another large-scale barbaric attack, using 68 missiles and 430 drones of various types against civilian and energy infrastructure in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions.
In total, just over the past week, as part of coordinated attacks on Ukrainian territory, Russia launched 1,770 strike drones, more than 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 86 missiles. At least 24 civilians were killed and 183 injured.
“All these indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Ukraine are not only a gross violation of the UN Charter and international humanitarian law—they constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the Permanent Representative stressed.
The intensified bombardment of Ukrainian cities is clear evidence that Russia has no intention of stopping its aggression or engaging in good-faith peace negotiations, he wrote in the letter to Waltz. On the contrary, Moscow is deliberately escalating its war of destruction, persistently pursuing a strategy aimed at eliminating Ukrainian statehood.
“That is why I have requested the convening of a UN Security Council meeting to address this extremely serious issue as soon as possible,” Melnyk said.
He expressed hope that the meeting would be convened “at the earliest possible time during the coming week.”
Despite the sharp escalation in Iran and the Middle East, “we cannot allow Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine to fade into the background,” the Ukrainian diplomat emphasized.
“This is also important because Moscow is currently providing increased military assistance to Iran, fueling the flames of war in the Persian Gulf and threatening global energy security,” Melnyk concluded.
