Russia's Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy and Russian president Vladimir Putin

Russia did not get the sympathy it was hoping for at an informal UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.

Ukraine has managed to humiliate Moscow over the last nine days by breaching Russia’s southern borders, reaching into the Kursk region and taking 100 Russian troops as prisoners of war.

Kyiv says it is already occupying 1,000 sq km (386 sq miles) – that’s the same amount of Ukrainian land Russia has seized so far this year.

Despite often boasting of its military prowess and Vladimir Putin’s promise to “kick the enemy out”, Moscow is struggling to remove the Ukrainian forces.

And it’s certainly not getting any help from the West judging from what happened at the informal the UN Security Council.

Ukraine’s allies, the US, France and the UK, did not waver in their support for Kyiv during the mini stand-off, and instead chose not mention the Kursk attack at........

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