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Following the U.N. Security Council's vote Friday on the resolution to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the ambassadors for Russia and Ukraine had harsh words for their U.N. counterparts.

In a fiery speech against the resolution, Russian envoy Vasily Nebenzya said countries were purposefully ignoring Ukraine's alleged crimes against people in its eastern Donbas region, denied Russian troops have bombed Ukrainian cities and accused Western media of using fake videos.

Nebenzya claimed the 11 countries that voted yes on the measure have "made Ukraine a pawn in your geopolitical game with no concern whatsoever about the interest of the Ukrainian people." 

"Your draft resolution is nothing other than yet another brutal inhumane move in this Ukrainian chessboard," he added.

Ukraine's U.N. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said he would not "dignify the Russian diabolical script that is rather a letter of obligation for an upscale seat in hell." 

That was the first of many personal attacks on Nebenzya, whose words he said "have less value than a hole in a New York pretzel." He later added it must be "so painful to think what your family thinks about you when you lie every day." 

Kyslytsya asked to hold a moment of silence for those killed so far in the conflict, adding, "I invite the Russian ambassador to pray for salvation."

When the moment began, the Russian envoy interrupted to add they should also pray for those killed in the Donbas -- repeating the baseless claim that the Ukrainian government is responsible for a genocide in the region.

Kyslytsya scolded the three countries that abstained and called on all of Ukraine's partners to break diplomatic relations with Russia -- something no one else has done yet. 

Nebenzya then took a moment to dismiss Kyslytsya's "boorishness" before gaveling out the meeting.

And with that, a week of high-level diplomacy did nothing to change the war on the ground.

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan

The White House is seeking $6.4 billion in new funding to respond to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a source confirmed to ABC News Friday. 

The aid package will likely "evolve," the source said, but currently includes $3.5 billion for Pentagon costs and $2.9 billion for humanitarian assistance to support Ukraine and Eastern European allies.

The funding will likely be included as part of the omnibus package Congress intends to pass by March 11, the source said.

The resources are in addition to the $650 million in security assistance and $52 million in humanitarian assistance the U.S. has committed to Ukraine over the past year.

“As the President and bipartisan members of Congress have made clear, the United States is committed to supporting the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and democracy," a White House official said in a statement Friday. "In a recent conversation with lawmakers, the Administration identified the need for additional U.S. humanitarian, security, and economic assistance to Ukraine and Central European partners due to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion."

-ABC News' Mariam Khan

The U.N. Security Council held a vote Friday evening on the U.S.- and Albania-led resolution to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Eleven countries voted in favor of the measure while three -- China, India and the United Arab Emirates -- abstained. Russia predictably vetoed it.

In a speech prior to the vote, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield laid out a stark choice for the council's members: Vote yes to uphold the U.N. charter and defend any country's rights, or vote no or abstain and "align yourself with aggressive and unprovoked actions of Russia."  

"History will judge us for our actions or lack thereof, and so long as we have a Security Council, I believe we are to strive to ensure it lives up to the highest purposes -- to prevent conflict and avert unnecessary war," she said. "Russia has already subverted that mission. But at a minimum -- at the very minimum -- the rest of us have an obligation to object and to stand up for the U.N. charter."

The resolution condemned Russia's aggression; reaffirmed Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity; and demanded that Russia immediately withdraw its forces.

In brief remarks after the vote, Thomas-Greenfield said that while Russia can veto a resolution, "you cannot veto our voices."

She confirmed they will bring the resolution to the U.N. General Assembly, where all countries have a vote and there is no veto power -- but where resolutions are nonbinding. 

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan

Ukraine is in the "initial stage of contacts" for possible negotiations with Russia to end the fighting, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News.

The two governments are discussing details such as the time and place of the talks, the spokesman, Sergiy Nykyforov, said. The meeting would take place between advisers and aides and not Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, he added.

The Kremlin said earlier Friday it was ready to send a delegation for talks to Belarus' capital, Minsk, and claimed Zelenskyy was ready to discuss "neutral status" for Ukraine. Russia’s foreign ministry later claimed Zelenskyy's administration had said to postpone any more discussion of talks until Saturday.

The discussions come as Zelenskyy warned Ukrainians in a televised address that Russia will attempt to storm Kyiv tonight.

-ABC News' Patrick Reevell and Fidel Pavlenko