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Envoy To UN: 130k Russian Troops Threatening Ukraine

UKRAINE

The Ukrainian envoy to the United Nations has claimed that around 130,000 Russian troops are 'threatening Ukraine' from across the border. Also claims that Russian military personnel are among the 35,000 separatist fighters in the largely ethnic-Russian Donbas region.

  • The Russian envoy to the UN left the UN Security Council meeting once the presentation from the Ukrainian envoy got underway. Previously, Russia had called today's UNSC meeting 'a stunt'.

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