American and British diplomats on Monday warned the UN Security Council that Russia could do grave damage to the international order that has underpinned global stability since the end of the Second World War if it does not take actions to deescalate the crisis it precipitated by deploying more than 100,000 troops along its border with Ukraine.
The meeting of the 15-nation body, which was requested by the US last week, ended without any actions, but saw American and Russian diplomats trade barbs and accusations over the nature of the Russian troop build-up, which for months has threatened to expand a simmering conflict that began when Russian forces illegally annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
