Russia submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), calling for an immediate ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor in Ukraine.

Russia submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), calling for an immediate ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor in Ukraine.

Russian ambassador at the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said that the humanitarian situation in Ukraine needs to be addressed immediately, without the usual “theoretical exercises" from the UN Security Council’s “usual suspects.”

“The draft is not politicized and is of a purely humanitarian nature,” Churkin said after a closed-door meeting on a Russian draft resolution.

 “Every day civilians get killed, among them women and children,” Churkin said.

“Ukrainian military and paramilitary forces impede the peaceful population, leaving besieged cities or sending their children to safe places. Buses of children are turned back,” Churkin told reporters in New York.

He stressed that the document is aimed at “alleviating human suffering.”

"A swift reaction is absolutely necessary, Churkin said, as Kiev continues its full scale military operation in southeastern Ukraine with “heavy and indiscriminate shelling of residential areas” using both artillery and aviation.