Russia pressed to halt attack on Ukraine at rare UN sessions

Ambassadors from dozens of countries on Monday backed a proposal demanding that Russia halt its attack on Ukraine (Seth Wenig/AP)

Ambassadors from dozens of countries have backed a proposal demanding that Russia halt its attack on Ukraine, as the UN General Assembly held a rare emergency session during a day of frenzied and sometimes fractious diplomacy surrounding the five-day-old war.

“If Ukraine does not survive … international peace will not survive,” Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said at the assembly’s first emergency meeting since 1997.