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Zelenskyy names Klymenko as Ukraine’s security council secretary

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will appoint former Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko as secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council following a meeting with him on Friday, July 17.

17 July, 03:25 PM

UNSC to convene on Ukraine

The UN Security Council will hold an open meeting on Ukraine on Dec. 9, APA reported, citing the press office of Slovenia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

8 December 2025, 10:03 AM

Clean hands, dirty war - Shoigu’s real victory

While Russia continues to rain shells, drones, and missiles on Ukrainian cities and send hundreds of thousands of its troops into a brutal war, the former Defense Minister and current Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu is celebrating what he considers his greatest military “achievements”: showers and underwear change.

23 May 2025, 02:10 PM

Kyiv urges UN to back ‘peace through strength’ to counter Russian ambitions

Ukraine seeks an end to Russia's full-scale military aggression and a just peace, but will not accept the “peace at any price,” the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya told Security Council members on Jan. 16.

17 January 2025, 09:02 AM

North Korea gains battlefield edge and Russian tech in war against Ukraine

North Korean support for Russia's war effort and combat experience is making Pyongyang "more capable of waging war against its neighbors," Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Dorothy Camille Shea told the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 8, according to Reuters.

9 January 2025, 09:11 AM

Putin holds emergency Security Council meeting after reported Ukrainian raid in Kursk Oblast

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin urgently convened an unscheduled meeting of the Security Council, Russian media outlet Brief reported on Telegram on Aug. 7, citing a source.

7 August 2024, 04:45 PM

Putin retires top ‘hawk’ over unrealistic strategies

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin realized the war strategy against Ukraine proposed by the “Russian hawks” is unrealistic, according to Russian political scientist Abbas Gallamov in an interview with Radio NV on June 10.

12 June 2024, 06:31 PM

Kremlin views Shoigu's shift to Security Council Secretary as lateral move, not a demotion, says Peskov

The Kremlin does not consider Sergei Shoigu's new position as secretary of the Russian Security Council to be a demotion from his previous job as defense minister, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the news agency Interfax on May 14.

14 May 2024, 05:33 PM

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