Ukraine demands the removal of the Russian Federation’s as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on the UN member states to resume the application of the UN Charter in the issue of the legitimacy of the Russian Federation’s presence in the organization, to deprive the Russian Federation of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN as a whole. The removal of the Russian Federation from the UN Security Council will not have a retroactive effect on previous decisions of this body and will not entail the annulment or revision of Security Council resolutions adopted previously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine emphasized. “The issue of Russia’s fate in the UN should be resolved in the general context of its responsibility for gross violations of the norms and principles of international law, as well as for crimes committed in the territory of Ukraine, in particular, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the crime of genocide,” it says in the application.