'To hell…':How Ukraine envoy hit out at Russia during UNSC meet amid invasion

• The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Thursday as the situation at the Ukrainian border escalated quickly, with Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing a “military operation” in the Ukraine. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an appeal to President Putin at the start of the second emergency Security Council session in three days over the Ukraine crisis. While western countries urged Moscow to back away from the brink, the Russian representative to the UN said that the operation has been declared to “protect the people of Ukraine who have been suffering for years.”