Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that on behalf of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he has sent an official request for immediate consultations to the UN Security Council in connection with the situation in the country.

 "On President Zelenskyy's initiative, I officially requested UNSC member states to immediately hold consultations under Article 6 of the Budapest memorandum," Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted.