"I'll be explaining in considerably more detail the position of the Russian Federation in the current situation in Ukraine and what is making Russian policy," ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters before the emergency session got underway.
It is the council's third emergency meeting in four days on Ukraine, where the government says Russian troops are still pouring into Crimea, in violation of international accords.
Saturday, a meeting of the envoys from the council's 15 member states ended in disagreement between the West and Russia, with Washington and London urging Moscow to pull back its military reinforcements from the strategic Black Sea peninsula with a majority ethnic Russian population.
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