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The UN Security Council was not able to accept the statement widespread by Ukraine on the inclusion of Crimea in the Southern Federal District due to the opposition of the Russian delegation. This was reported on Twitter of the representative office of Ukraine at the UN.

"Russia blocked the UN Security Council for the press on the Crimea widespread by Ukraine. A miserable attempt to deny the undeniable," the report said.

On Thursday, Ukraine distributed a draft application for the press among members of the Council of People's Commissars in response to a decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin to include Crimea and Sevastopol in the Southern Federal District of Russia . The permanent representative of Ukraine at the UN Vladimir Yelchenko noted that he would not be surprised if the document is blocked by Russia. Yelchenko discussed the statement with the Secretary General of the organization Pan Hi Moon. ​

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine also made a statement about this. “This decision is null and not creating any legal consequences, does not affect the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol and the international recognized borders of Ukraine,” the document says. “The Foreign Ministry once again calls on the Russian Federation to return to the fulfillment of its international obligations, to terminate the aggression and illegal occupation of part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine.” The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry directed the corresponding note to the Russian side.

This is not the first case of blocking Russia's UN Security Council decisions on the situation in Ukraine. In March 2014, the Russian delegation took advantage of the right veto. A draft resolution initiated by the United States was blocked, which intended to declare the upcoming referendum in the Crimea “not having the power” and call on all countries not to recognize its results. China abstained when voting.

On July 29, 2015, Russia blocked the adoption of the UN Security Council of a resolution on the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the disaster of the Malaysian Boeing-777 in Donbass in July 2014. Russia was the only participant in the meeting that voted against the creation of the tribunal. The position of Moscow caused the indignation of democratic countries.

In September of the last goal, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called for limiting the right of Russia's veto in the UN Security Council. Russia should remain a permanent member of the Security Council, he said in an interview with Voice of America. “But I think that Russia should be deprived of the right of the veto in the conflicts that it is a participant,” said the Ukrainian leader. “A similar step will not only take the Council of People's Commissars more effective, it will return efficiency to these mechanisms, since now the modernity is blocking and is not able to fulfill its function.”