KYIV: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry calls for Russia to be removed from the United Nations, saying they “abused” the charter and that their presence is “illegitimate”.
In a statement posted by the ministry on twitter Monday, it argues that the Russian Federation took the seat granted to the USSR in 1991 and never went through a formal approval process, much like the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which previously held a seat under ‘Czechoslovakia’.
“The Russian Federation has never gone through the legal procedure to be admitted to membership and therefore illegally occupies the seat of the USSR in the UN Security Council. From a legal and political point of view, there can be only one conclusion: Russia is a usurper of the Soviet Union’s seat in the UN Security Council”, they said.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted the announcement, reiterating the ministry’s stance that Russia’s membership is “illegitimate”.
On the other hand, Russian power equipment manufacturer Power Machines says it has completed assembly and testing of its first domestically made high-power gas turbine.
According to a statement, Power Machines plans to be able to produce eight 170-megawatt turbines a year by 2025 and raise annual capacity to 12 turbines in the future. It will also ensure the maintenance of gas turbines, including imported ones.
The first clients will be Russian oil company Tatneft, state energy holding InterRAO and power company Rushydro, the statement said. Russia has for years been trying to start production of its own medium- and large-capacity gas turbines for power plants.
It has accelerated domestic production due to international sanctions that have made importing and maintaining equipment in Russia much harder.
Russia’s FSB security service says a four-person Ukrainian “sabotage group” had been “liquidated” while trying to enter the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
“As a result of a clash on December 25, 2022, four saboteurs who attempted to penetrate the territory of the Bryansk region from Ukraine were destroyed,” the RIA news agency quoted an FSB statement as saying. The FSB added that the alleged saboteurs were armed with foreign-made guns and four improvised explosive devices. There was no immediate comment on the incident from Ukraine. –Agencies
