“Russia can’t win,” says UN secretary general

Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 4:41 p.m.

By Sudinfo with Belga

Russia cannot win the war it started in Ukraine on February 24, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. He reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire.

“Ukraine cannot be conquered city by city, street by street, house by house,” Guterres said on Tuesday in New York. “This war cannot be won. Sooner or later, we will have to move from the battlefield to the negotiating table.”

The UN Secretary General also pointed out that Russia’s war was against international law, violated UN treaties and caused terrible suffering. Citizens are terrorized by the systematic bombardments, he denounced. “The continuation of the war in Ukraine is morally unacceptable, politically indefensible and militarily unnecessary. It is time to end this senseless war.”