UNITED NATIONS, December 29. /TASS/. The United Nations Security Council will gather for an extraordinary meeting on the situation in Ukraine later on Friday, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said.

"At 4:00 p.m. New York time (midnight on December 30 in Moscow) today, a UNSC meeting requested by Ukrainians and Western delegations will be held," he wrote on his Telegram channel.