Bombardments continue in Ukraine, where at least five people died and 40 were injured on Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on the city of Izium in northeastern Ukraine. The regional governor specified that the missile "hit the center" of this city, which had over 40,000 inhabitants before the war.
Izium, located about a hundred kilometers from the regional capital, Kharkiv, had been occupied by Russian forces from April 2022 until they were expelled by a Ukrainian counteroffensive in September of the same year.
Further east, Russian troops have managed in recent weeks to establish a bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskil River, continuing their slow advances against a Ukrainian army facing a shortage of recruits and weapons.
Meanwhile, international organizations remain closely monitoring the Ukraine war, where human rights are constantly violated. The UN has expressed concern over the sharp increase in executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by the Russian Armed Forces on the front line, having recorded 79 such executions in 24 different incidents since late August 2024.
Lavrov Calls on US and Europe to Return to the Yalta System on the 80th Anniversary of the Conference
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the United States and major European powers today to return to the international system created by the Yalta Conference (Crimea), which marks its 80th anniversary this Tuesday.
"Given the current level of conflict, the thoughtless abandonment of the Yalta-Potsdam system with the UN and its status as nuclei will inevitably lead to chaos," the article published today in the Russia in Global Affairs magazine states.
Lavrov recalls that the main outcome of Yalta was the creation of the United Nations and the principle of the sovereign equality of all states, which Moscow considers the basis for establishing a new multipolar world order. "The UN did not lead us to paradise, but it saved us from hell," he asserts.
He believes that the West had the opportunity to regain faith in the UN as the only universal platform for forging collective solutions in 1991 with the Soviet disintegration. "But selfish instincts prevailed," he points out, referring to aggressive Western policy in Eastern Europe as one of the reasons for the current tensions with Russia and the military campaign in Ukraine.
Death Toll Rises to Five with 40 Injured in Russian Attack on Izum
At least five people died and nearly 40 were injured in a Russian missile attack on administrative buildings in the Ukrainian city of Izium in northeastern Ukraine, authorities reported.
Following the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that "this cruelty is unacceptable" and urged allies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the invasion.
"We must pressure Russia and use all possible means: the force of arms, the force of sanctions, and the force of diplomacy, to stop the terror and protect lives," he wrote on social media.