{"id":1909966,"date":"2023-04-04T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-official-wanted-for-war-crimes-set-to-brief-un-security-council-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:44:35","slug":"russian-official-wanted-for-war-crimes-set-to-brief-un-security-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-official-wanted-for-war-crimes-set-to-brief-un-security-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Official Wanted for War Crimes Set To Brief UN Security Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Frussian-official-wanted-for-war-crimes-set-to-brief-un-security-council-meeting%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=1909966&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-->\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\nRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2023. REUTERS\/Maxim Shemetov<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, the Russian commissioner for children&#8217;s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, who has been accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), is scheduled to speak at an informal United Nations Security Council meeting regarding the conflict in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ICC has held Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lvova-Belova responsible for the kidnapping of hundreds of Ukrainian children during the war. Despite this, Russia, which has taken over the Security Council&#8217;s rotating presidency for April, declared that Lvova-Belova would address the meeting, according to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-charged-with-war-crimes-may-brief-un-security-council-2023-04-03\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed anger over Russia&#8217;s control of the council. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to imagine anything that proves more the total bankruptcy of such institutions,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The United States suggested that Russia &#8220;conduct itself professionally&#8221; during its leadership of the council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As per a note from Russia to the council members, &#8220;participants will hear &#8216;first-hand&#8217; information from the Presidential Commissioner for Children&#8217;s Rights of the Russian Federation, as well as from children evacuated from the conflict area.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia asserts that its efforts pursue humanitarian objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, described the situation as &#8220;like an April Fool&#8217;s joke.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, NATO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/04\/04\/world\/russia-ukraine-war?partner=slack&#038;smid=sl-share#finlands-ascension-would-be-a-huge-plus-for-nato\">welcomed<\/a> Finland, Russia&#8217;s neighbour, to its ranks, which is a setback for Putin&#8217;s attempts to contain NATO&#8217;s expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/wall-street-journal-reporter-arrested-by-russian-spy-service\/\"><span>arrested<\/span><\/a><span> American journalist Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges, which could attract up to twenty years in prison, while covering the Ukraine war.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2023. REUTERS\/Maxim Shemetov A Russian official wanted for war crimes is set to brief the United Nations Security Council\u2019s informal meeting on the Ukraine conflict. Russian commissioner for children\u2019s rights Maria Lvova-Belova, declared a war criminal by the International Criminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1909967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8641,5999,4470,4808,3965,3646,8273,6696],"class_list":["post-1909966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-council","tag-crimes","tag-meeting","tag-official","tag-russian","tag-security","tag-set","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909966","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\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}