U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on Russia to end its war in Ukraine. He said continuing the war is 'morally unacceptable, politically indefensible, and militarily nonsensical.'
and called for immediate negotiations to end the conflict.
The U.N. has said the real death toll of civilians is likely much higher than the confirmed number of 953. And conservative estimates of Russia's military casualties are in the low thousands.Here are excerpts of what the secretary-general said: "The Ukrainian people are enduring a living hell, and the reverberations are being felt worldwide, with skyrocketing food, energy and fertilizer prices threatening to spiral into a global hunger crisis. Developing countries were already suffocating under the burden of COVID and the lack of access to adequate financing. Now they are also paying a heavy price as a result of this war.
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