Russia's United Nations representative Vassily Nebenzia at a Security Council meeting on June 6, 2023 in New York City. Ukrainian government organization SPRAVDI has criticized the U.N. for ...

While calls to reform the Security Council have persisted for decades, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has underscored to critics that the diplomatic infrastructure put in place after World War II ...

Image. The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution in New York on Monday, calling for immediate and urgent days-long humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas war.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, left, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confer in the United Nations Security Council, in a Jan. 18, 2018 file photo.

Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine at the United Nations ...

W hen the Security Council was founded as part of the United Nations in 1945, it was built as “an extension of the powers that defeated Hitler and Japan,” and a way to “lock in place the ...