At the UN, Russia’s deputy ambassador Anna Evstigneeva accuses Ukraine of escalating “terrorist attacks” on Russian civilians and using Western-backed ceasefire talk as cover to rearm for a new round of war, while China’s Sun Lei urges all sides to abandon Cold War thinking and build a “balanced, effective and sustainable” European security architecture, and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Pavlichenko condemns Russia for what he calls deliberate strikes on three foreign merchant vessels near Odesa that killed and injured civilian seafarers from multiple countries.