Russia refuses to speak at UN meeting about attacks on Ukraine’s Odesa

Church personnel inspect damage inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Russia refused to speak at a UN Security Council meeting called to discuss Moscow’s recent attacks on Ukraine’s port city of Odesa immediately after its refusal to extend the Black Sea grain deal.

The confrontation began at the start of a council session called by Russia on the divided Orthodox Church in Ukraine.