Russia declines UN request for aid access to areas flooded by Ukraine dam breach
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A senior United Nations relief official said on Sunday that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.

A senior United Nations relief official said that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.

  • Houdini@kbin.social
    17·
    2 years ago

    There goes the UN trying to interfere in Russia’s genocide of innocent people again. No wonder conservatives and fascists hate the UN so much.

        • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
          3·
          2 years ago

          Its supposed to be a diplomatic forum but that is absolutely useless when you have a “security council” where each member can block everything. Furthermore letting countrys like Saudi Arabia take head of human rights council. Or all if the other shows of it being almost completely useless.

          • interolivary@beehaw.org
            7·
            2 years ago

            The UN isn’t just the security council or the General Assembly, they do so much more, eg. ICAO is extremely relevant, just to name one organization. Again, you think the UN doesn’t work because you don’t know what they do. Parts of it don’t work, lots do, same as any other huge transnational organization.

          • YeetTheRich@dataterm.digital
            1·
            2 years ago

            It was created to let governments talk to each other before resorting to nuclear war - a security council veto is a form of speech. Its been keeping that line of communication open, so its been working as intended. Anything else the organization might accomplish is just a bonus.

      • SomeDude@feddit.de
        2·
        2 years ago

        1. I don’t think you understand what and how much the UN actually does and how many billion people depend on it.

        2. When the UN formed, it was the russians under Stalin that insisted on establishing a Veto right for the security council members. The US was opposed to this.

        Fun how the problem always circles back to russia.

    • MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
      12·
      2 years ago

      I think for them to stop being assholes they’d need to feel the tiniest bit of empathy first and if the last year of relentless cruelty has shown us anything the Russian government has no empathy whatsoever.

      • interolivary@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        The problem isn’t the Russian government; this brutality and callousness has been going on for hundreds of years. The problem is Russian culture that keeps producing these governments

        • MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          2 years ago

          Maybe the Russian culture produced many such governments, but the current Russian government is still to blame for the current atrocities. I wouldn’t blame the culture for those, since the culture has also produce people who were against that war, but were powerless against the dictatorship.

          • interolivary@beehaw.org
            3·
            2 years ago

            Saying “it’s the government!” when it’s a successive string of governments stretching back into times before there was a Russian empire is a bit of a cop out. Yes, the culture has produced many Russians who are against the war and having an authoritarian government, but that doesn’t mean the wider cultural framework is in any way healthy or “good”. A culture that produces constant imperialist wars noted for their brutality should be criticized (and before someone chimes in with “but what about the USA!??!¿”, I’m against their imperialist wars and large parts of their culture as well)

  • Midnitte@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    I wonder what it would take for UN peacekeepers to get involved. How bad does the situation need to get?

    • khalic@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      You should familiarise yourself with the Rwandan Genocide for a good example of how useless they can be… I shudder just thinking about it…

    • Cade@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      UN peacekeepers famously did not get involved when the Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in their own “safe zones”. I don’t know if there are counter examples since then that demonstrate peacekeepers actually keeping peace, but that was the worst situation imaginable, and they still didn’t get involved and just let it happen.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759

  • Ronno@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    Makes sense, it would be a major risk to accidentally shoot a UN representative, while you are shooting on people in need of aid. /s