After months of blocking any Security Council action on Ukraine, Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN’s most powerful body Monday to introduce a resolution calling for an immediate halt to deadly clashes in eastern Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow will seek Security Council action to end weeks of violence in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents, a move immediately denounced by the United States as “hypocritical.”

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Speaking in Moscow, Lavrov said the resolution would seek to establish a “stable and reliable ceasefire,” and also call for the creation of “humanitarian corridors that will help civilians leave hostility zones, should they wish to do so.”

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki countered that Russia was being “hypocritical” by calling for a ceasefire and seeking help for civilians to safely leave combat zones in eastern Ukraine while “doing nothing to stop” Ukrainian separatists from attacking targets in the east and holding international monitoring teams hostage.

“So if they’re going to call for . . . reduction in tension and a de-escalation, it would be more effective for them to end those activities,” Psaki told reporters in Washington.

Russia holds the rotating Security Council presidency in June, and the council met behind closed doors Monday afternoon to discuss the proposed resolution.

Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the resolution would not be drafted in such a way that it could be enforced militarily.

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Russia has called almost daily for an end to violence in eastern Ukraine, but this is the first time Moscow has called for a Security Council resolution.

It was unclear how much support the proposal would have.

No council member has recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and Western nations are virtually certain to demand that any resolution reaffirm Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

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