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Security Council, Including Russia, to Express Concern About Ukraine

Members of the United Nations Security Council sit during a meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, US, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Members of the United Nations Security Council sit during a meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, US, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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Security Council, Including Russia, to Express Concern About Ukraine

Members of the United Nations Security Council sit during a meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, US, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Members of the United Nations Security Council sit during a meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, US, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

The UN Security Council, including Russia, has agreed to express "deep concern regarding the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine" in the body's first statement since Russia invaded its neighbor ten weeks ago, diplomats said on Friday.

Statements of the Security Council are agreed by consensus.

The brief text drafted by Norway and Mexico is due to be formally adopted at a meeting later on Friday, Reuters quoted diplomats as saying.

"The Security Council expresses deep concern regarding the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine," it reads. "The Security Council recalls that all Member States have undertaken, under the Charter of the United Nations, the obligation to settle their international disputes by peaceful means."

"The Security Council expresses strong support for the efforts of the Secretary-General in the search for a peaceful solution," reads the statement, which also requests UN chief Antonio Guterres brief the council again "in due course."

The statement was agreed despite a diplomatic tit-for-tat that has been escalating since Russia launched on Feb. 24 what it calls a "special military operation" and what Guterres blasted as Russia's "absurd war."

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Russian Missile Kills Four, Injures Many More in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih 

Emergency personnel work in a destroyed building following a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine March 5, 2025. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region/Handout via Reuters) 
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Russian Missile Kills Four, Injures Many More in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih 

Emergency personnel work in a destroyed building following a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine March 5, 2025. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region/Handout via Reuters) 
Emergency personnel work in a destroyed building following a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine March 5, 2025. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region/Handout via Reuters) 

A Russian missile struck a hotel in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih late on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring 31, with rescuers still searching on Thursday morning for anyone trapped in the rubble, officials said.

A group of humanitarian organization volunteers from Ukraine, the US and Britain had checked into the hotel just before the strike but survived after taking shelter quickly, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

"Unfortunately, four people were killed in the attack," he wrote on Telegram. "We must not pause in putting pressure on Russia to stop this war and terror against life."

Fourteen of the 31 injured in the strike were in a serious condition, said Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region.

Ukraine's Emergency Services, also posting on Telegram, said 19 people had been rescued from the site of the hotel.

They posted pictures of crews making their way through the rubble outside the floodlit five-storey building and clambering up and down ladders.

Smoke billowed from the top of the hotel and nearly all its windows appeared to have been blown out. A crane was deployed to reach upper levels.

In addition to the hotel, 14 apartment buildings, a post office and 12 shops were also damaged, the governor said.

The Ukrainian military said Russian forces launched two ballistic missiles and 112 drones at Ukraine overnight. Drones also struck energy infrastructure in the southern region of Odesa, injuring two people, the governor said.

In the northeastern city of Sumy, a drone attack killed one person and damaged a private enterprise's storage facility, according to the local prosecutors.

Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskiy's hometown, has been a frequent target since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.