UNITED NATIONS: The EU`s foreign affairs chief on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that Russia`s invasion of Ukraine was just one of a rising number of cases where the `rule of force` has replaced international law.

Russia`s UN ambassador in turn questioned whether the United Nations needed to talk with the EU that he accused of `pontificating` and being`Russophobic.` Eighty years after its creation the United Nations now faces `unprecedented pressure,` EU high representative for foreign affairs Kaja Kallas told a Security Council meeting on relations with the European Union.

`We see blatant violations of the UN Charter.

We see attempts to replace the rule of law by the rule of force,` the former Estonian prime minister said.-AFP