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Under Assault, Ukraine Attempts To Undermine Russia at UN

Moscow is set to take over the revolving presidency of the Security Council even as it attacks Ukraine with at least 81 missiles and eight Iranian-made drones.

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The Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, holds up a copy of the UN Charter March 2, 2022. AP/Seth Wenig
BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

Following the latest barrage of missiles that rained on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure centers, and as Russia prepares to assume the presidency of the United Nations’s most prestigious body, Kyiv is doubling down on undermining Moscow’s legitimacy at the institution. 

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BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Israel Radio, Ha’Aretz, and others. Once New York Sun, always New York Sun.

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