United Nations Security Council towards war in Ukraine

Abstract

 From the outbreak of the war until the end of July 2023, the Security Council held 33 meetings devoted to the events on the territory of Ukraine. None of the meetings ended with a decision to impose direct coercive sanctions against the Russian Federation. Once again, it turned out that the Security Council is incapable of solving a key international problem due to decision-making paralysis. The purpose of this article is to analyze the activity of the Security Council in a situation of threat to international peace and security and the arguments of the member states of the Council. The existing voting procedure from the very beginning of the ongoing conflict has doomed to failure any attempt to respond to aggression and violations of international humanitarian law. The tasks of the Security Council – contrary to the provisions of the UN Charter – are therefore limited to publicizing the problem and do not contribute in any way to solving it. This paper used methods characteristic of the social sciences, in particular political science and international relations. Particular importance was attached to the method of legal analysis and the comparative method.