6:36 am: A minute of silence at the UN
During a live intervention before the UN Security Council, Volodymyr Zelensky succeeded in obtaining a minute’s silence for Ukraine in the presence of Russia. “If you could honor all Ukrainians who have been killed in this war, all adults, all our children, tens of thousands of people… I ask you to honor them with a minute of silence,” he said. he said at the end of his speech, standing up.
Seeming a bit taken by surprise, the 15 members of the Security Council followed suit, as did the rest of the people present in the room. Representing Russia at the start of the session, the Deputy Russian Ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, also stood up to observe the minute of silence.