Ukrainian official calls Putin suicidal for nuclear threat; Russia denies targeting civilians

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Ukraine's ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya called the move by Russian President Vladimir Putin suicidal for putting his nuclear forces on alert.

"If he wants to kill himself he doesn't have to use a nuclear arsenal, he has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in 1945," he said, referencing Adolf Hitler's suicide in a Berlin bunker.

He made the comments as the 193-member United Nations General Assembly began meeting on the crisis in Ukraine on Monday ahead of a vote this week to isolate Russia by deploring its "aggression against Ukraine" and demanding Russian troops stop fighting and withdraw.

The General Assembly will vote this week on a draft resolution similar to a text vetoed by Russia in the 15-member Security Council on Friday.

Meanwhile, Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Russia's actions in Ukraine are being "distorted and thwarted."

"The Russian army does not pose a threat to the civilians of Ukraine, is not shelling civilian areas, and areas and cities where Russian armed forces have taken control, and these areas are seeing citizens living their lives normally," Nebenzia told the General Assembly.