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A United Nations court ordered Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine after the country said Russia violated a genocide convention.

New numbers from a United Nations agency reveal a grim aspect of the worsening humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

"I intend to pursue collaboration and transparency to move our country forward," Fathi Bashagha, one of two men claiming to be Libya's prime minister, told Newsweek.

One in every eight children in Moldova is a refugee, according to the country's prime minister.

A Ukrainian official told the United Nations to refute the claim it is censoring certain words if it is not true.

The Chinese ambassador expressed alarm at the loss of civilian life in Ukraine and thanked countries including Russia for helping to evacuate its citizens.

Kyslytsya questioned how Russia plans "to stop any war that could take place on Ukrainian territory" while it continues to attack the country.

"It's only going to get worse," one senior military officer tells Newsweek. "No one in Russia is twisting into a pretzel to avoid civilian deaths."

At least 1.7 million refugees have fled Ukraine, many of them are children who are unaccompanied or were separated from their families.

Nikki Haley argued on Sunday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine "never would have happened" if Trump was still president.

Sergiy Kyslytsya echoed President Volodymyr Zelensky's claims that Russia's Thursday attack on a nuclear power plant was an act of "nuclear terrorism."

Only Eritrea joined Russia in voting against a motion at the U.N. Human Rights Council, while China abstained.

U.S. military officials said Russian forces still haven't captured Ukraine's capital city, but have made progress elsewhere.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has increased its uranium stock by 15.5 kilograms since November.

"In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.

U.N. Environment Assembly representatives called the treaty, to be completed by 2024, the most significant environmental agreement since the 2015 Paris accords.

Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea and Syria rejected U.N. condemnation of Russia, while China, India and Pakistan were among those abstaining.

More than 874,000 Ukrainians have already escaped to neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began early last Thursday.

The measure condemning the invasion and demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops passed with 141 countries in favor, five opposed and 34 that abstained.

More than 100 diplomats walked out of the room as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began to address the council via a remote video.

"Civilian buses, cars, and even ambulances have been shelled. Russia is doing this every day—across Ukraine," Blinken said.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia promised a Russian response to the upcoming expulsion "because it's diplomatic practice."

"[H]e doesn't need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945," Sergiy Kyslytsya said on Monday.

Checkpoints at the borders of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and other nations were clogged by long lines of cars and buses as Ukrainians pour out of the country.

More than 100,000 people in Ukraine have already left their homes with thousands escaping into other countries, according to an estimate from the U.N.

Vasily Nebenzya made the comment at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by Russia.

At a UN Security Council meeting, China's Ambassador Zhang Jun continued to call for the implementation of the Minsk II agreement.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting after Vladimir Putin ordered forces into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine as "peacekeepers."

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting in response to the Russian president's announcement.

"I urge all parties to be extremely careful with their rhetoric. Public statements should aim to reduce tensions, not inflame them," Antonio Guterres said.