Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of committing “criminal and unprovoked aggression” as he came face-to-face with Vladimir Putin’s officials for the first time since his country was invaded.
The aggression violated both the norms of war and the UN Charter itself, he told a special meeting of the UN’s security council.
All eyes were on possible interactions between Mr Zelensky and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, but Mr Lavrov was not in Russia’s seat as Mr Zelensky spoke.
Earlier, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian Black Sea fleet command post near Sevastopol in Crimea, the Ukrainian military said.
The Moscow-installed governor of the city – a resort where Vladimir Putin spends his summer holidays – said a missile attack had been prevented.
Some reports described it as a “kamikaze drone” hit and that Russia had downed several drones in the area. Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014.
Separately, footage of an inferno near the Adler International Airport in Sochi circulated on Telegram.
“There were no casualties,” the mayor of Sochi, Alexei Kopaigorodskyi, said on the Telegram platform.