{"id":1396560,"date":"2022-03-23T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396560"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:59:54","slug":"wrap-it-up-u-n-chief-guterres-orders-russia-ukraine-to-end-this-absurd-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wrap-it-up-u-n-chief-guterres-orders-russia-ukraine-to-end-this-absurd-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap It Up: U.N. Chief Guterres Orders Russia, Ukraine to &#039;End This Absurd War&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwrap-it-up-u-n-chief-guterres-orders-russia-ukraine-to-end-this-absurd-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396560&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded Russia and Ukraine end their \u201cabsurd war\u201d as soon as possible on Tuesday, asserting the war was \u201cunwinnable\u201d and peace talks were \u201cinevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has occupied its Crimean peninsula since. It has also supported two separatist groups in the eastern Donbas region in an ongoing war since them. In February, Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/21\/ukraine-completely-created-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-pro-russian-separatists\/\">recognized<\/a> the two groups as the sovereign governments of the \u201cDonetsk People\u2019s Republic\u201d and \u201cLuhansk People\u2019s Republic\u201d and asserted that those \u201cstates\u201d had requested Russian military aid to fight Ukraine. Russian troops have been assaulting most of Ukraine\u2019s largest cities since that declaration on February 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The government of Ukraine has engaged Russia directly in the war and, as of press time, successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/22\/pics-ukraine-claims-to-have-retaken-key-kyiv-suburb-battle-for-mariupol-continues\/\">prevented<\/a> Russia from seizing the capital, Kyiv. Russia has made minor territorial gains but largely failed to meet international expectations for military success against the much smaller Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has played a minor, at best, role in the conflict. When Russia first launched its war \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/21\/ukraine-completely-created-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-pro-russian-separatists\/\">declaring<\/a> that Ukraine as a state was \u201ccompletely created by Russia\u201d \u2013 it held the presidency of the U.N. Security Council, which allowed it to block any response to the military campaign. While the United Arab Emirates (UAE) currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/securitycouncil\/content\/presidency\">controls<\/a> that body, netiher it or any other U.N. agency has acted to successfully limit the intensity of the war between the two states.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres told reporters on Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia both had \u201cenough on the table\u201d to reach a peace agreement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_15967818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/03\/antonio-guterres-makes-funding-call.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres eats food at the Langar Khana during his visit of the Sikh Shrine of Baba Guru Nanak Dev at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur near the Pakistan-India border, on February 18, 2020. (AAMIR QURESHI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis war is unwinnable. Sooner or later, it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table. This is inevitable. The only question is: How many more lives must be lost?\u201d Guterres <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/03\/1114392\">asked<\/a>, according to a report published by the United Nations. \u201cHow many more bombs must fall? How many more Mariupols must be destroyed? How many more Ukrainians and Russians will be killed before everyone realizes that this war has no winners \u2013 only losers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said from this podium almost one month ago should be even more evident today. By any measure \u2013 by even the shrewdest calculation \u2013 it is time to stop the fighting and give peace a chance,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIt is time to end this absurd war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guterres also warned that, given the outsized roles that both Ukraine and Russia play in supplying wheat and fertilizer to the world market, the war is fueling \u201cskyrocketing food, energy and fertilizer prices threatening to spiral into a global hunger crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. report did not indicate that Guterres suggested the United Nations take any particular action to facilitate the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. member countries and agencies have repeatedly attempted, and failed, to address the war. The Security Council initially took up the issue in February, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/ukraine-tells-russia-to-go-straight-to-hell-at-russia-led-u-n-meeting-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/\">failed<\/a> to take action as Russia held the presidency of the Council. The platform did allow Ukraine\u2019s U.N. ambassador to tell his Russian counterpart to \u201cgo straight to Hell\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/02\/24\/ukraine-asks-united-nations-to-kick-russia-out\/\">demand<\/a> that Russia lose its position in the United Nations entirely, but the U.N. did not act upon thta request.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The U.N. General Assembly also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/28\/u-n-to-address-ukraine-crisis-in-emergency-general-assembly\/\">held<\/a> an emergency session that resulted in no significant action.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called for the world to \u201curgently redistribute power\u201d so as to end gender inequality which he said \u201cshould shame us all in the 21st century because it is not only unacceptable, it is stupid.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yD3ijumFmy\">https:\/\/t.co\/yD3ijumFmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1233959502267002882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In March, another United Nations organization, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/17\/russia-ignores-u-n-court-ordering-end-of-ukraine-war\/\">issued<\/a> a ruling demanding that Russia immediately cease its invasion of Ukraine. The ICJ is a platform for states to bring court cases against each other \u2013 only states, not individual people or corporate entities, can be plaintiffs and defendants there \u2013 with no enforcement mechanism. Russia simply ignored the ruling, which found that Russia\u2019s false accusations of genocide against Ukraine had violated the 1948 Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Putin himself accused Ukrainian forces of \u201cgenocide\u201d once against last week during a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/18\/vladimir-putin-accuses-ukraine-genocide-packed-stadium-rally\/\">rally<\/a> at Moscow\u2019s Luzhniki Stadium to commemorate the colonization of Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is to save people from this suffering, from this genocide \u2014 this is the main, main reason, motive and goal of the military operation that we launched in the Donbass and Ukraine, this is precisely the goal,\u201d Putin said of the current war.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials, including Putin, insist that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/03\/russian-fm-sergey-lavrov-ukraines-zelensky-a-neo-nazi-president\/\">neo-Nazi<\/a>\u201d and that the Ukrainian government is an illegitimate \u201cNazi\u201d entity. Zelensky has addressed the accusation directly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/how-can-i-be-a-nazi-zelenskyys-direct-appeal-to-russians-before-ukraine-attack\/\">noting<\/a> that he is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19575386\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1026085970.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19575386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1026085970-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping proceed to their bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People on September 2, 2018 in Bejing, China. (Photo by Andy Wong-Pool\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey tell you that we\u2019re Nazis. But how can a people that lost eight million lives to defeat the Nazis support Nazism? How can I be a Nazi?\u201d Zelensky said in a speech to the Russian people shortly after Putin announced his invasion of Ukraine. \u201cSay it to my grandfather, who fought in World War II as a Soviet infantryman and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/20\/invoking-holocaust-in-speech-to-israeli-lawmakers-zelensky-calls-to-prevent-russian-final-solution\/\">compared<\/a> the Russian invasion to the Holocaust during a speech this weekend to the Israeli Knesset, a comparison\u00a0that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/20\/israeli-officials-blast-zelensky-for-invoking-holocaust-in-knesset-speech\/\">outraged<\/a> lawmakers and other officials.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648119860490000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3qazzf2-Idylj4rkHk1nNX\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648119860490000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2zh1TgxtkEYKTcjMAS3Xex\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded Russia and Ukraine end their \u201cabsurd war\u201d as soon as possible on Tuesday, asserting the war was \u201cunwinnable\u201d and peace talks were \u201cinevitable.\u201d Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}