Russian nuclear forces being put on high alert is a “chilling development” and the mere idea of a nuclear conflict is simply inconceivable, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, voicing hope that direct talks between Ukraine and Russia would produce an immediate halt to the fighting.
“The fighting in Ukraine must stop. It is raging across the country, from air, land and sea. It must stop now,” Mr. Guterres told a rare emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on Ukraine.
A day after the 15-nation UN Security Council voted to refer the Russia-Ukraine crisis to an emergency session of the General Assembly, the most representative body of the United Nations convened the rare emergency session on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
