Ukraine has been working on the draft resolution on the claim registry together with partners and is planning to submit the document to the UN General Assembly in November.

The Russian delegation at the United Nations put on quite an act on Oct. 27, providing a full-scale horror show of allegations against Ukraine: bioweapons, contagious combat mosquitos and, of course, the dirty bomb.

It’s been almost two months since I started covering the United Nations from its headquarters in New York. I came here to understand whether the organization is as useless as many in Ukraine and beyond say. People see mostly brazen Russian vetoes at the Security Council, the inability of the body to make decisions and, of course, loads of boring resolutions no one understands.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kept talking about the necessity of dialogue as the only way to stop the Russian war against Ukraine during the UN General Assembly last week.

Ukraine took 46th place among the most digitalized governments in the world, making it into a group of 73 countries with the highest e-government index, reads the UN 2022 E-Government Survey published on Sept. 28.

The United Nations, along with their Ukrainian humanitarian partners, is stepping up efforts to help more than 150,000 people affected by hostilities in Kharkiv Oblast, the UN humanitarian coordinator Denise Brown said during her visit to Kharkiv on Sept 26.

Tired, but satisfied Olena Zelenska meets the Ukrainian journalists somewhere in Manhattan on Sept. 23 – the last day of her 3-day visit to New York. Zelenska came to the U.S. together with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to represent Ukraine at the 77th United Nations General Assembly. 

The full-scale Russian war against Ukraine has already destroyed Ukraine's infrastructure, energy facilities, schools, hospitals, and private property, leaving thousands of Ukrainians homeless. The invasion has already cost $340 billion in damages to Ukraine as of September.

The UN Security Council’s first high-level meeting on Ukraine since the start of the war on Feb. 24 in New York was full of emotion.

New York, United Nations – As many world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly High-Level week, more and more of them talk about Ukraine and how Russia’s invasion has affected everybody, causing a lack of food and a hike in energy prices.

During the closed meeting  Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield reaffirmed the United States’ unwavering support of Ukraine to defend its sovereign territory against Russia’s unprovoked aggression, U.S. Mission to the United Nations Spokesperson Nate Evans said in a statement. 

The United Nations humanitarian organizations still have no access to the Ukrainian children, who went to schools in Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine this year.

Our world is blighted by war, battered by climate chaos, scarred by hate, and shamed by poverty, hunger, and inequality.  Conflicts and unrest continue to rage.   

Russia carried out a missile strike on a dam in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the evening of Sept. 14, raising fears in Ukraine that Moscow, defeated on the battlefield, will now step up its attacks on civilian targets.

I am reading Sophocles’ «Oedipus Rex». The key text on responsibility of an individual will be staged in Kyiv by one of the best theater directors this autumn. «Oedipus Rex» was staged in Kyiv in 1918 by the leading avant-garde Ukrainian director Les Kurbas.

Ukraine was not the most important stage in Putin's plans. The landing in Hostomel and the parade on Khreschatyk were supposed to be just an episode of the epic picture about "Russia rising from its knees."

The Armed Forces of Ukraine will destroy enemy equipment, ammunition dumps, and command-and-control centers across occupied Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address on Aug. 30.

Kirill Stremousov, who was “appointed” by Russia as the so-called “deputy head of Kherson regional administration,” has confirmed he’s currently in Russia, in a video statement published on Telegram messenger on Aug. 31.

The EU will suspend a simplified visa issuance agreement with Russia, stopping short of a wholesale visa ban for Russian citizens, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, as reported by Reuters on Aug. 31.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission that aims to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar arrived in Zaporizhzhia on Aug. 31, the Reuters news agency reported the same day.