Ukraine calls an urgent UN Security Council meeting after an «Oreshnik» strike in Lviv region

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. Photo: Facebook / Andrii Sybiha

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that Ukraine is initiating an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council due to the strike of a Russian Oreshnik missile on the Lviv region.

He wrote about this on social media platform X.

According to the minister, against the backdrop of this attack, Ukraine will also initiate a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council and hold consultations with partners in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE. The Ukrainian side is currently informing its American and European partners about the details of Russia's use of this missile.

Andrii Sybiha stressed that the strike near the EU and NATO border poses a serious threat to the security of all of Europe and is a test for the North Atlantic Alliance.

He also stressed that Russia's attempts to justify the attack with a fictitious «attack on Putin's residence» are unfounded.

«It is absurd that Russia is trying to justify this strike with a fake 'attack on Putin's residence' that never happened. This is further proof that Moscow does not need real reasons for its terror and war,» the foreign minister stressed.

We will remind you that on the evening of 8 January, throughout Ukraine an alert an alert due to the threat of ballistic missiles being launched from the Kapustyn Yar test site. Then a series of explosions were heard in Lviv.

Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reported that it is currently unknown whether this was a strike from the Russian Oreshnik ballistic complex.

According to the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, Maksym Kozytskyi, the attack targeted a critical infrastructure facility.

Early on 9 January, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated that it had used the Oreshnik missile complex during a night strike on Ukraine. This was allegedly in response to a «drone attack» on the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.