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UN denies banning staff from using ‘war’ and ‘invasion’ over Ukraine
The United Nations denied claims that it has banned workers from utilizing the phrases “warfare” or “invasion” to explain the battle in Ukraine.
In response to an obvious leaked e mail, media studies stated that UN workers have been advised to make use of “battle” or “army offensive” as an alternative.
Ukrainian Minister of International Affairs Dmytro Kuleba shared the rumours on social media and stated the UN’s fame was “at stake”.
However senior spokespeople on the UN have denied the studies and stated the claims have been “faux”.
“No such official communication has gone out to international workers to chorus from utilizing sure phrases,” stated Melissa Fleming, who leads international communications for the UN.
Fleming additionally referred to an earlier tweet from UN Underneath-Secretary-Basic for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, which used the phrases “warfare” and “invasion”.
“Almost two weeks on, it’s painfully clear that these struggling essentially the most after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are civilians — killed, wounded, displaced,” DiCarlo stated.
“This warfare is not sensible. We’re able to assist all good-faith efforts at negotiation to finish the bloodshed.”
Russia has all the time referred to the warfare in Ukraine as a “army operation”, and the nation’s media regulator Roskomnadzor has cracked down on the phrases that information retailers can use.
Russian residents now additionally resist 15 years in jail in the event that they deliberately unfold claims about Russia’s army which might be deemed to be “faux”.
Russia holds one of many 5 everlasting seats on the UN Safety Council, and a few nations have expressed issues about its position inside the worldwide physique.
The Irish Occasions had reported that UN workers have additionally been banned from “including the Ukrainian flag to social media profiles or web sites”.
Ukraine’s overseas affairs minister had stated it was “laborious to consider” that the UN had additionally censored dialogue over Russia’s invasion.
“I urge the UN to swiftly refute such studies if they’re false,” Kuleba tweeted.
The UN spokesperson additionally denied the studies on social media, though a few of the tweets have since been deleted.
“It’s merely not the case that workers have been instructed to not use phrases like ‘warfare’ and ‘invasion’ to explain the state of affairs.”
In response to the Irish Occasions, a UN official stated that the reported e mail “cannot be thought of official coverage to workers” however conceded that it is likely to be real. Euronews is working to confirm the validity of the e-mail.
U.S. Navy destroyers shot down Houthi missiles and drones for the second time in a month, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Tuesday.
The USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and USS O’Kane (DDG 77) successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden on Dec. 9 and 10, the Navy said.
The ships were escorting U.S. owned and operated merchant vessels when they successfully engaged and defeated multiple one-way attacks, uncrewed aerial systems and one anti-ship cruise missile.
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The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane (DDG 77) and the Italian Navy Thaon di Revel-class Multipurpose Combat Ship ITS Raimondo Montecuccoli (P 432) sail alongside each other in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Official U.S. Navy photo)
This attack marks the second in a month, with the first taking place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1 when the ships defeated an Iran-backed Houthi attack.
US NAVY SHIPS REPEL ATTACK FROM HOUTHIS IN GULF OF ADEN
“These actions reflect the ongoing commitment of CENTCOM forces to protect U.S. personnel, regional partners, and international shipping, against attacks by Iran-backed Houthis,” the command said in a statement.
The attacks took place while the vessels were transiting the Gulf of Aden from Dec. 9 to Dec. 10, CENTCOM said. (U.S. Central Command)
American personnel were not injured, CENTCOM added, and there were no injuries or damage to the ships.
The attacks against shipping are ongoing and Houthi militants vow to continue until Israel ends its campaign in Gaza.
Ukrainain President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the air strike proves Ukraine needs to enhance its air defence system.
At least three people were killed and 20 injured, many of whom are in critical condition, after a Russian strike on the city Zaphorizhzhia in Ukraine on Tuesday.
According to regional governor Ivan Fedorov, the strike hit a private clinic in the city centre, damaging buildings nearby.
“Medics, police and rescuers are currently working at the attack site,” he wrote on Telegram.
Among the victims were two doctors and a five-year-old girl.
At least 11 were injured in a separate, double ballistic missile attack on the town of Zlatopil in the Kharkiv region.
An administrative building and 16 residential buildings were damaged, according to local authorities.
In a post on social media platform X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Zaporizhzhia strike proves that Ukraine needs to enhance its air defence systems.
He added that Kyiv submitted all the necessary requests to its partners to do so.
The attack comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that he’s open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.
The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO, Zelenskyy said in a post on his Telegram channel.
His proposals tread a delicate diplomatic path amid international efforts to find a way of ending Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II at a time when Russia has gained an upper hand in the fighting.
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