Permament Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine (15 May 2023)
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Western delegations were
never interested in the situation of ordinary people of Donbas since 2014. Today we are not going to hear from them a word of condemnation of another atrocious shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian forces on 28 April.
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Responsibility for these crimes rests not only with the Kiev regime, but
also with those who supply Kiev with weapons. <...>
All those weapons that are being provided i.a. by Security Council member states who are represented in this chamber, and who claim so concerned about the humanitarian consequences of the Ukrainian conflict,
kill civilians daily. Those weapons kill women and children, destroy schools and hospitals in the DPR and LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
• With total connivance of Western sponsors,
Kiev does not hesitate to use terrorist methods. Among its crimes – terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, killings of journalists Daria Dugina and Maxim Fomin, attempted assassination of Zakhar Prilepin that killed his friend, Alexander Shubin.
Today we are going to hear a lot about solidarity of Western community with Ukraine, and their readiness to stand with it “until the end”. It must be understood however that their support is exactly what is
pushing Ukraine towards this end.
• Under the guise of raising private investment for large-scale projects in key areas of the economy,
Ukraine’s state sovereignty is in fact
being transferred under the external corporate management of the world's major investment fund that is based in New York.
Most of the food that is exported from Ukraine (and which was supposed to go to the countries of the Global South) ends up within the European Union. It is a fact and the most telling demonstration of the
true essence of Brussels’ celebrated humanitarian initiatives.
