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  1. “We will give the Ukrainians the help that they need for as long as it takes, until Ukraine prevails, until its sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored and until the Charter of the Organization is upheld.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  2. “Together, we must mobilize the combined might of public and private finance to ensure that Ukraine gets the reconstruction investment it needs. But what Ukraine wants — what we all want — is for this war to end now, and to end with a victory for Ukraine and a just and enduring peace, based on the United Nations Charter. Only this can bring an end to the food and fuel shortages from which the whole world is suffering. One year on, on year into this terrible war, let us in the Chamber send a clear message. Our support for Ukraine is not and will never be time-limited. Our defence of the Charter of the United Nations is not and will never be time-limited. We will keep the promises that we made to the United Nations Charter and to the Ukrainian people.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  3. “We must be prepared for this, and we must recognize that these things are a sign of weakness, rather than a sign of strength. Those of us in this Chamber have a special responsibility to the United Nations Charter. We cannot allow Putin’s invasion or his threats to succeed. We must not deviate from our resolve. The United Kingdom is proud of the support that we have given to Ukraine. But military assistance and humanitarian aid are not enough. When this war is over — and it will be over with Ukraine’s successful defence of its territory — we must never allow Ukraine to be left vulnerable to attack again. We must make sure that Ukraine is safe and secure and economically viable. That is why the United Kingdom is proud to co-host the Ukraine recovery conference in London in June 2023.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  4. “But President Putin ignores the will of the United Nations. He does not care about the United Nations Charter. On 24 February last year, he told us it was not Russia’s plan to occupy Ukrainian territory. On 8 December, he called his illegal so-called annexations a significant result for Russia. His land grabs in eastern and southern Ukraine show us that his heart is set on imperial expansion. But 800 Russian soldiers a day are dying for his hopeless ambitions; they are paying for his ego with their lives. As he sees that his aggression against Ukraine is failing, we should expect him to try and strong arm us into backing down with every dirty coercive instrument at his disposal: with cuts to grain and energy shipments, with threats of escalation, and with poisonous disinformation and cyberattacks.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  5. “What is at stake on the battlefield is the international order itself, and that is at the heart of the United Nations. The United Nations Charter, territorial integrity and international law exist to protect countries that do not themselves have big and powerful armies; they are there to protect them from the aggression of those countries that do. At the end of the Second World War, the United Nations saw a unique thing in human history. Powerful, victorious nations chose to limit their own power to protect the countries less powerful than themselves. That is the bottom line. That is why the United Nations Charter needs to be protected and why it needs to be enforced. It is also why three quarters of the entire membership of the United Nations have repeatedly voted to condemn this invasion in the General Assembly.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  6. “It was a clear demonstration that while the Ukrainians may have been hit —and hit hard — their spirit will not be broken. That restaurant’s personnel wanted to show me that they would not give up, but they would keep calm and carry on. Foreign Minister Kuleba kept his promise to me, and all of us in the Security Council Chamber today need to keep our promise to Ukraine and keep our promise to world to protect and defend the United Nations Charter. Over the past year, Putin has shown us that he is willing to wage a war of attrition. The twentieth century’s two World Wars have shown us what a horror that would be — hundreds of thousands more dead or wounded, global shortages of fuel and food, and skyrocketing prices. For these reasons and many more, Putin cannot and must not win in Ukraine.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  7. “Today we mark one year since President Putin began his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Three months ago, I travelled to Kyiv. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, who is sitting with us in the Chamber today, greeted me. He had promised to host me for lunch, as representatives of countries often do. But I arrived just after another Russian missile attack on civilian infrastructure had knocked out the water and electricity supply to that city. But Foreign Minister Kuleba — Kyiv — was not going to let Putin’s bomb stop him from doing his job. The restaurant that hosted us rigged up a generator, brought in litres of bottled water and provided the lunch. We have all given and received diplomatic hospitality in our jobs, but that is the kind of diplomatic hospitality that shows something very important.”

    2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source

  8. “We must make it clear to President Putin that his attack on the Ukrainian people must stop, that there can be no impunity for those committing atrocities and that he must withdraw from Ukraine and restore regional and global stability. If he chose to, he could stop this war, which has done untold damage to the Ukrainian and Russian peoples. His war is an assault on Ukraine, the Charter of the United Nations and the international norms that protect us all. We will therefore stand with our Ukrainian friends for as long as it takes, because Ukraine’s fight for freedom is the world’s fight for freedom. It is our fight for freedom, and if Ukraine’s sovereignty and territory are not respected, no country is truly secure. Those are the reasons why Ukraine can and must win.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  9. “My husband was left for hours lying on the floor in a pool of his blood. I do not know why. We had done nothing wrong. Then they took my son away from us — I do not know where. I do not know if we will ever see him again. I just want my boy back.” Olena’s story and those of many others tell us the real truth. This is a war of annexation and conquest to which President Putin now wants to send even more of Russia’s young men and women, making peace even less likely. Mr. Putin needs to understand that the world is watching and that we will not give up. As members of the Security Council, we must unequivocally reject Russia’s attempts to annex Ukrainian territory.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  10. “And he is planning to use it as a further pretext to escalate his aggression. That is what he plans to do. We call on all countries to reject that charade and to refuse to recognize any results. We are used to hearing Russia’s lies and distortions. But let us listen to the testimony of Ukrainians telling us the truth — the reality — of President Putin’s war. Together with her husband Oleh and their 22-year-old son Dmytro, Olena Yuzvak, who is a doctor, was abducted by Russian forces from their home in Hostomel, near Bucha, in March. Russian soldiers shot Oleh twice in the legs before blindfolding the family and bundling them into an armoured personnel carrier. I want the Council to hear Olena’s story in her own words. “First they took us to a bombed-out house. The Russian soldiers kept saying they were going to kill us.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  11. “We now know that was a lie. Today I have listened to further instalments of Russia’s catalogue of distortions, dishonesty and disinformation. Mr. Lavrov has left the Chamber, and I am not surprised. I do not think that he wants to hear the collective condemnation coming from the Council. But we saw through him then and we saw through him again today. We have information — which means that we know — that Russia is about to hold sham referendums on sovereign Ukrainian territory, with no basis in law, under the threat of violence and in the wake of mass displacements of people in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Ukrainian independence. We know what Vladimir Putin is doing. He is planning to fabricate the outcome of the referendums and use that to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  12. “It is not just Ukrainians who are the victims. President Putin’s war has spread hardship and food insecurity across the globe, plunging millions of the world’s most vulnerable into hunger and famine. And once again, as we have seen here today, Russia has sought to deny responsibility. It has tried to lay the blame on those who have rightly imposed sanctions on President Putin’s regime in response to his illegal actions. Let us be clear. We are not sanctioning food. It is Russia’s actions that are preventing food and fertilizer from getting to developing countries. It is Russia’s tactics and bombs that are to blame for destroying Ukraine’s farms and infrastructure and delaying its exports. I sat here in February listening to the Russian representative assuring the Council that Russia had no intention of invading its neighbour.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  13. “United Nations agencies have confirmed more than 14,000 civilian casualties so far, and the actual total is likely to be much higher. More than 17 million Ukrainians are in humanitarian need, 7 million people are displaced inside Ukraine and there are more than 7 million Ukrainian refugees in Europe. We see the mounting evidence of Russian atrocities against civilians, including indiscriminate shelling and targeted attacks on more than 200 medical facilities and 40 educational institutions, as well as horrific acts of sexual violence. We see from the reports of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that in parts of Ukraine currently under Russian control civilians are subjected to torture, arbitrary detention and forced deportation to Russia. And we have seen more grisly discoveries in Izyum.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  14. “Seventy-seven years ago, the members of the United Nations agreed on the solemn principles of the Charter of the United Nations as vital to international peace and security. They undertook to refrain from the use or threat of use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State. Yet seven months ago, President Putin invaded Ukraine illegally and without justification. He ignored the resounding pleas for peace that I heard here in the Security Council on 17 February (see S/PV.8968). Since then, Ukrainians’ spirit of defiance and defence in protecting their country has continued to inspire all free peoples and nations. Every day, the devastating consequences of Russia’s invasion become clearer.”

    2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source

  15. “There should be no doubt that any further Russian incursion into Ukraine would be a massive strategic mistake and a humanitarian disaster that will be met with strength, including significant coordinated sanctions. And we will continue to call out the pattern of deception and disinformation from the Russian State. If Russia is serious about the Charter of the United Nations and its role as a permanent member of the Security Council, it should give the Minsk agreements the chance to be implemented, free from coercion; it should engage seriously with diplomacy; and it should stand down all its troops. There is still time to change path. Conflict can be avoided. We urge Russia to match its words with actions, to withdraw its troops, to engage meaningfully in talks and to act in the best interest of peace, security and stability in Europe.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  16. “Upholding the core tenets of the Charter of the United Nations in respect of peaceful resolution and respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity has never been more important. Russia must now engage with the diplomatic process that we have built up over several decades and on which global security depends, and resolve the situation through peaceful means. If Russia chooses to launch an attack at this time of heightened tension, using disinformation as a pretext, it will show that Russia was never serious about diplomatic engagement. Any Russian invasion now would be a conflict of choice for President Putin, and an abdication of Russia’s responsibility under the Charter of the United Nations to refrain from the use of force and to maintain international peace and security.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  17. “That text is very clear on two points that reflect the core tenets of the Charter of the United Nations, emphasized by the Secretary-General when he addressed this situation only a few days ago: first, that resolving the situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine can be achieved only by peaceful means, and secondly, that there must be full respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Yet we are seeing increasing disinformation about events in Donbas that are straight out of the Kremlin playbook: a blatant attempt by the Russian Government to fabricate a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine. It is therefore clear that we are at a critical juncture to prevent further escalation.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  18. “Russia is patently failing to live up to the international commitments that it has made around military transparency, by refusing to adequately explain its military build-up or provide the necessary transparency to build trust and de-escalate the situation. If the Kremlin is serious about a diplomatic resolution, then it needs to show up to the diplomatic meetings and commit to meaningful OSCE talks, including via chapter III of the OSCE Vienna Document. They did not show up on Wednesday, and do not intend to show up on Friday. Russia’s actions are clearly designed to intimidate, threaten and destabilize Ukraine. We know it, they know it and the international community knows it. Russia called this meeting today to discuss resolution 2202 (2015).”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  19. “More than 14,000 people have lost their lives in the fighting. Now, today, the Ukrainian people are yet again living under the threat of invasion, with well over 130,000 Russian troops, heavy weaponry and military vessels amassed and exercising on their northern, eastern and southern borders, from Belarus to the Black Sea. Let us say clearly what the whole world can see: Russia has deployed the forces necessary to invade Ukraine, and now has them readied for action. In the past days we have heard Russian claims that some units are returning to barracks. It is, however, all too clear that the opposite is in fact true, and the Russian military build-up continues. Russia will say that it has the right to move its forces within its own territory, but no one has the right to threaten the use of force.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  20. “In that respect, we condemn the actions taken by the Russian Duma to propose that the Russian President recognize the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent. That would directly undermine the Minsk agreements and must be rejected by the Russian authorities, in line with the commitments that they have made. We welcome all efforts to support the process and avoid escalation, including the role of the OSCE and the Normandy format. This remains our long-standing position. Let us remind ourselves of the context for the Minsk agreements and the situation in which Ukraine finds itself today. In March 2014, Russia invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, in flagrant violation of international law. A few weeks later, in April, Russia instigated a conflict in Donbas, which it continues to fuel today.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  21. “I thank the briefers for the information that they have provided today. The United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine continue to command our full support. The rights of all Ukrainians, whether they are in Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk or Luhansk, can be served only by peace, diplomacy and dialogue. I want to make absolutely clear the United Kingdom’s support for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, as endorsed by resolution 2202 (2015). That resolution reaffirmed the Security Council’s full respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine. It remains the responsibility of all parties to implement fully their commitments and seek a peaceful resolution of the conflict.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source