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Russia and West clash over Ukraine at Security Council meeting ahead of war anniversary
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People mourn over the coffins of a family killed in a fire when Russian drone hit their home in residential neighbourhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. Seven people including three children were killed on Saturday in the Russian drone attack. - photo by AP Photo/Andrii Marienko
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia accused the West on Monday of sabotaging agreements that would have prevented the war in Ukraine – but the U.S. and its allies put the blame squarely on Moscow, saying there is no escaping that President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of its smaller neighbor. Days before the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia again put the cause of the war down to the failure to implement the 2015 Minsk agreements, which he blamed on “Kyiv’s sabotage” supported by the West.