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first: 2010-10-26
most recent: 2023-12-29
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“In that regard, we firmly support Israel in its right to defend itself in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. There can be no justification for any type of terror in the modern world, and Ukraine reaffirms its strong condemnation of the Hamas attacks, which have killed and wounded several thousand people, including citizens of Ukraine. We also condemn the practice of hostage-taking — a practice that Ukraine has also suffered from in its liberation war against Russia — and demand the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. That terror is not only targeting human lives today but also aims to undermine the prospects for a peaceful future for two peoples, as there can be no place for structures such as Hamas in such a future. That is why Hamas has plunged the region into hostilities.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. He represents the aggressor that is denying the right of my country to exist, terrorizing and killing our people, kidnapping children, raping women and taking hostages. I do not think that I should continue with the list of those crimes after they have been mentioned for hours in this Chamber in the overwhelming majority of statements condemning terrorism. I would like to continue, however, by thanking the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, and the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Lynn Hastings for their briefings. It has been 18 days since the hostilities in the Middle East provoked by Hamas’s brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks across Israel began.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“I would like to reiterate the message that my President delivered in this Chamber in September (see S/PV.9421), which is that every country can demonstrate its leadership within the framework of one or more or all the points of the peace formula. We invite everyone to join in its implementation.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“He said that on the same day that his troops killed 52 people in the village of Hroza. The restoration of justice and Russia’s accountability will be key elements for the comprehensive, just and lasting peace and security that the entire world would benefit from. That is one of the 10 points of our peace formula, the plan that Ukraine has proposed as a universal model to restore the rules-based order and respect for the norms of international law and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. It should become an effective instrument not only for putting an end to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine but for settling and preventing any of the multiple war-related crises that affect people and nations across the globe.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“And sanctions imposed by the international community on Russia for its acts of terror. And international justice”. Ukraine and its civilians need viable protection from Russian atrocities, and we hope the world will focus on strengthening the capacities that President Zelenskyy mentioned rather than consuming Russian propaganda and watching new Mosfilm shows such as the one scheduled for this Chamber on 13 October. Putin has stated clearly and unequivocally that he would like to kill Ukraine. And it was not even a Freudian slip of the tongue. On the contrary, he fully realized what he was saying when he claimed on 6 October in the so-called Valdai forum that “If the Western defence supplies are terminated tomorrow, Ukraine will have a week left to live”. Ukraine will have a week left to live.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“In order to make the fakes more convincing, there is a possibility that Russia will use Ruslan Syrovyi, a defector from Ukraine’s border guard service who appears to have been a long-time Russian agent. It will not come as a surprise if Putin’s envoy uses that narrative about weapons sent to Ukraine reappearing in the Middle East in this Chamber on Friday. Israel has every right to protect itself from terror. So does any other State. And it is very important for the whole world to respond to terror in a united and principled fashion. As the President of Ukraine said following the mass murder in Hroza, “We realize that words and documents can hardly stop such evil. But air defence can, as well as artillery, missiles and armoured equipment. And Ukrainian soldiers who repel Russian assaults and manage to advance themselves.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“Our position is absolutely clear. Anywhere in the world, anyone who brings terror and death must be held accountable. The terrorist attack on Israel was thoroughly prepared, and the whole world understands which sponsors of terror could have encouraged and organized it. And they hope to benefit from it in the propaganda domain. According to some intelligence reports, Russia has already transferred some weapons to Hamas. The aim is plain and simple — to substantiate the fake information that the Kremlin has so desperately circulated about military assistance to Ukraine. As part of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign, those fakes can be used as a basis for so-called investigations in the Western information space.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“As Russia keeps killing civilians every day, any vote in favour of its candidacy will be a bullet in the body of the United Nations, which Russia has already mutilated. We believe in the capacity of the United Nations community’s wisdom and moral integrity to prevent that from happening. Terror has opened too many fronts against humankind. And two days after the horror in Hroza, we saw horrific footage from Israel, with thousands of missiles in the sky above Israel. People killed right in the streets. Cars riddled with holes with civilians inside. Hostages abused. We in Ukraine are particularly sensitive to what has happened in Israel because the Russian terror campaign has also brought all of that into the streets of Ukrainian cities and villages. When such terrorist attacks occur, everyone who values life must stand in solidarity.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“Russia, in turn, is attempting to undermine our human potential, targeting the right of Ukraine and Ukrainians to exist. And this country that keeps killing Ukrainians on a daily basis is now running as a candidate in the elections to the Human Rights Council to be held tomorrow, 10 October. Eighteen months ago, as noted in General Assembly resolution ES-11/3, Russia’s membership rights in that body were suspended due to “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed by the Russian Federation during its aggression against Ukraine” (General Assembly resolution ES-11/3, second preambular paragraph). Russia instead responded to that decision by intensifying its aggression and increasing the number of its deliberate attacks on civilians.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“As we have seen throughout the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has shown little regard for the norms of international law. Moreover, the civilian population and civilian objects have remained deliberate targets for Russian forces. On the same day that the mass murder in Hroza happened, Russian shelling killed two civilians in Kherson. The next day, 6 October, Russia struck a residential building in Kharkiv, killing a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother. Such attacks occur every day, and the only way to stop them is to deprive Russia of the capability to attack. That is the main task that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fulfilling, in particular by using weapons supplied by our allies to reduce Russia’s military potential and thereby limit its capacity to wage aggressive wars.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for their lack of patriotism, and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” That was said by Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring to psychologist Gustave Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials. We commend the strong message from the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Ms. Denise Brown, who condemned the horrifying Russian strike as another barbaric consequence of Russia’s invasion and reminded us that intentionally directing an attack against civilians or civilian objects is a war crime. As the Secretary-General stated in response to the Russian strike, “Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international law” (SG/SM/21974).”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“That is exactly how Putin explains his war of aggression — as a form of defence, without caring at all how crazy it sounds to audiences beyond Russia. “They started the war, and we used force and continue to use it to stop it”, he told his puppets from the so-called Russian Parliament in February this year. “Today a real war has been unleashed against our homeland”, he persuaded the audience of a military parade later in May. All of those narratives demonstrate how the Russist regime follows in the footsteps of its Nazi predecessors, who were sure that: “it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“According to the words of a local woman: “With one missile they buried the whole village. In every house, there will be one coffin — in some even three or five. There are just a few people left alive in the village.” We in Ukraine remember clearly similar stories of entire settlements being erased from the map. Those settlements were destroyed, and their residents were killed. That happened 80 years ago, during the Nazi invasion of Ukraine. Now the Russian Federation carefully cosplays its role model, the Third Reich, by killing people, by attempting to annex territories and by fuelling imperial sentiments and feelings of Russians’ own superiority. It is also trying to whitewash its aggression by pretending to defend itself from imaginary attacks.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“They were all civilians and local residents who had gone to pay their respects to Andriy Kozyr, a fallen Ukrainian soldier who was killed in action last year and initially buried in another region, as Hroza was under occupation at the time. Recently, his son Denys decided to rebury him in his home village. Last Thursday, the Russians killed Denys as well, along with the entire family, including his wife, his grandmother and grandfather and his mother-in-law. Hroza is a small village, located about 30 kilometres west of Kupyansk — a city that was liberated last autumn and that Russia is desperately trying to retake at any cost. The particularly tragic aspect of that horrendous attack is that Russia killed loved ones from nearly every family in Hroza with a single strike.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of the criminal Russian regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. The terrorist nature of that regime was again manifested on 5 October with another mass murder of Ukrainian civilians, this time in the village of Hroza. I would like to start by thanking all those who expressed their sympathy for the victims of that horrendous Russian attack — one of the deadliest since the beginning of the Russian invasion. At least 52 local residents, including a 6-year-old child, were killed by a Russian Iskander missile that hit a local café and a store located in the same building. Six others were wounded, and four more, including two children, were reported missing. The café was full of people assembling for a funeral reception.”
2023-10-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9431 (2023) · source
“Every day, if not every hour, Russia proves that those actions are completely incompatible with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, let alone with the criteria of membership in the United Nations and the Security Council in particular.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“As I said on 12 October 2022, there were only four countries that voted against the United Nations Charter, while 143 firmly stood in its defence and in support of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, within its internationally recognized borders. Today in the Chamber, not a single country in the Security Council has aligned itself with yet another violation of the United Nations Charter by the Russian Federation. Russia is alone and isolated. I would like to express our gratitude, in particular for the stated position on the planned so-called elections, to the delegations of Albania, the United States, France, Ecuador, Ghana, Malta, Switzerland, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Gabon. Enough is enough.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“We are also convinced that the international community should respond to that deliberate violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations by strengthening pressure on the aggressor, in particular by imposing tough new sanctions. Let me reiterate that illegal voting in the occupied territories of Ukraine poses an existential threat to the United Nations and its Charter. All those illegal actions are putting global peace and security at risk. If we do not condemn the actions of the Russian Federation today, then we condone similar blatant attacks on any and all countries tomorrow. Protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States Members of the United Nations, regardless of their size and power, is our collective duty and a core principle of the United Nations Charter.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“We call on the international community to condemn the use of the Russian election system on the territory of another State. We also urge the international community not to recognize the so-called results of those fake elections, the legitimacy of so-called authorities and officials appointed by the occupying Power under the guise of local representatives, or the legitimacy of any decisions made by the occupying Power on behalf of those authorities. All those who are involved in holding those fake elections will bear responsibility. The competent authorities of Ukraine are already taking measures to track them down and bring them to justice.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“5) We firmly reject and strongly condemn the illegal actions of the Russian occupation forces in the temporarily occupied parts of the territories of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. We do not, and we will never, recognize those illegal actions and emphasize that their results will be null and void and cannot produce legal effects under international law. Likewise, any activity of illegally created so-called administrations and local authorities in the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine will have no legal effect and will not alter the internationally recognized status of those areas as integral parts of the sovereign territory of Ukraine.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“Let me recall that the demand by the General Assembly has yet to be met by Russia, namely, the demand that: “the Russian Federation immediately and unconditionally reverse its decisions of 21 February and 29 September 2022 related to the status of certain areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, as they are a violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and inconsistent with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.” (ibid., para.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“The General Assembly clearly declared that the unlawful actions of the Russian Federation with regard to the illegal so-called referendums held from 23 to 27 September 2022 in parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya regions of Ukraine that, in part, are or have been under the temporary military control of the Russian Federation, and the subsequent attempted illegal annexation of these regions, have no validity under international law and do not form the basis for any alteration of the status of these regions of Ukraine.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“In that resolution, the Assembly underscored that the referendum held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on 16 March 2014, having no validity, cannot form the basis for any alteration of the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or of the city of Sevastopol. In September 2022, Russia conducted other sham referendums in parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions. In response, on 12 October 2022, the General Assembly adopted, by an absolute majority of 143 votes in favour to 5 votes against, a resolution on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and upholding the principles of the Charter of the United Nations (resolution ES-11/4).”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“As terrorists force hostages to read a prepared text on camera, Russia makes the civilian population that has stayed in the occupied territories participate in a staged free expression of their will. It is crucial to remember that Russia has resorted to a mockery of free will since the very beginning of its aggression against Ukraine, in 2014. On 16 March 2014, Russia held a so-called referendum in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol that was not authorized by Ukraine. The General Assembly responded to that crime by adopting a resolution on the territorial integrity of Ukraine (General Assembly resolution 68/262).”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“The Ukrainian forces continue to undermine the Russian grip on the occupied territories and will persist in doing so until all sovereign territories of my country are liberated. Russia’s desperate attempt to legitimize its illegal occupation of the Ukrainian territories by organizing an outright farce of an election serve only as proof that Russia realizes the inevitability of its defeat. One could hardly qualify as anything other than fake the elections to Russian puppet structures in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine, in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, that are taking place from 8 to 10 September.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“I note the continued occupation by Putin’s envoy of the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. On Wednesday, his country added yet another horrific crime to the endless list of atrocities that one day will bring the representatives of Putin’s regime, including those in this Chamber, to the docket of an international tribunal. I thank those Security Council members that have this week expressed their condemnation of and condolences over Russia’s terrorist attack on civilian facilities — a local market, stores and a pharmacy — in the city of Kostiantynivka, in the Donetsk region. At least 16 people were killed, including a child, and 37 wounded as a result of that attack. Needless to say, they were civilians — another mass murder committed by Russians, as revenge for the failures of their troops on the battlefield.”
2023-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9414 (2023) · source
“As my President said earlier today, we remember what the Ukrainian people went through, and we know what we are capable of. We are capable of winning, and we will win. Ukrainian children in Ukrainian squares and streets will celebrate Ukrainian independence in the same way. Our grandchildren will celebrate, and their grandchildren, together with the friends of our State and with Ukraine’s allies and partners, and there will never be any more pauses in Ukrainian history.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“In addition to the volumes of materials from the Nuremberg Tribunal, there is a report about Third Reich diplomats and their involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, released in Germany in 2010. They testify that it was almost impossible for high-ranking servants of the regime to keep themselves separate from the crimes that the Nazi regime committed. The representatives of Putin’s regime should take time and read that report — maybe it will help them terminate their contract with the devil. All their lies and their complicity in the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity are on record in this Chamber. One day, those records will be used as materials for another trial, in which some of them will join other representatives of Putin’s criminal regime in the dock.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“If they do not drop their arms and withdraw, they will, like many have already, descend into hell, while their unclaimed bodies rot in Ukrainian soil. I have already quoted from the Nuremberg verdict referring to crimes against children, and I now want to remind the Council that the first verdict of the International Criminal Court was also related to such crimes: the case of The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. It makes us believe that every Russian criminal will eventually be brought to justice. Let me also remind the representatives of Putin’s regime in this Chamber of what happened to the Nazi diplomats after the defeat of the criminal regime of another dictator — and of what awaits them.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Where are children’s rights in our discussions in preparation for the SDG Summit? Today young Ukrainians born in an independent Ukraine are at the vanguard of our existential fight for the future and sustainable development. They are people who have lived in a free and democratic country and who share democratic and humanistic values. They are not ready to give up because they realize quite clearly what they are standing up for, unlike Russian soldiers, who come to kill Ukrainians for money and accept the role of cannon fodder and who Putin gladly sacrifices in furthering his neocolonial and imperialist practices. Every contract signed by a Russian soldier is a contract signed with the devil.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“I therefore repeat my call on the relevant United Nations agencies and officials, in particular UNICEF and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to engage with the issue of the mass abduction of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation and Belarus and to properly monitor and report on this matter. We are now approaching the Summit of the Future. There is no future without children. Where are children’s rights in our discussions in preparation for the Summit? Where is the issue of children in many conflicts? What kind of future do we hope for if children are being killed and abducted? In four weeks, we will gather at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit. How can we ensure sustainable development amid the daily loss of children’s lives?”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“However, as I have already said in this Chamber, Russia’s identification as one of the listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection of children was made in advance and has yet to be substantiated with concrete actions from Russia. The Kremlin must halt its heinous crimes against children in Ukraine and facilitate the return of all Ukrainian children back to our country. Instead, we keep seeing the opposite: Moscow continues its daily shelling of the territory of Ukraine, resulting in the killing and maiming of children.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“It is one of the priorities set by President Zelenskyy’s peace formula plan to ensure the release of all prisoners and deportees, including war prisoners and children deported to Russia. To that end, we have established constructive dialogue and cooperation with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and the local United Nations children and armed conflict team. The joint prevention plan between the Government of Ukraine and the United Nations country task force on monitoring and reporting to end and prevent grave violations against children in Ukraine was signed last Friday, 19 August. We also appreciate the Secretary-General’s unprecedented decision to add the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups to the annex of his annual report on children and armed conflict (S/2023/363).”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Russian crimes against children, like those of the Nazis during the Second World War, are one of the most horrible markers of this war. The genocidal nature and brutality of these crimes are horrifying. Russia’s war has affected all of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children. Almost two thirds of them have been internally or externally displaced. According to the United Nations, owing to the full-scale Russian invasion, 75 per cent of schoolchildren suffer from stress, and 26 per cent have post-traumatic stress disorder. The Council has already heard from the briefers the terrible statistics on child casualties, which grow every day. Russia’s aggression is about Ukraine’s future, and there is no future without children. It is Ukraine’s top priority to further strengthen children’s protection, particularly in the context of Russia’s aggression.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Since February 2022, the Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that more than 700,000 children were relocated from Ukraine to Russia. Ukraine has strong grounds to believe that several hundred thousand Ukrainian children were forcibly and unlawfully taken by Russia, with many still being held against their will. Children are abducted under various pretexts and scenarios, which the Council heard about today from our distinguished briefers. After deportation to Russia or to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, our children are exposed to aggressive brainwashing aimed at changing their consciousness, erasing their Ukrainian identity and preparing obedient soldiers for the Russian army in the future. I just quoted Himmler, who said “we will take children, if necessary by kidnapping”. That is what happens every day in Ukraine.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
““What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type, we will take, if necessary by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us”. There are many similar statements made on Russian State television every single day. Since 2014, Russia has purposefully pursued a policy of mass abductions of Ukrainian children and their forceful indoctrination. We have seen that Russian policy in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014. We welcomed the address by the Secretary-General at the third Summit of the International Crimea Platform, held yesterday, an event that served as powerful proof that the de-occupation of Crimea and the ensuring of accountability for crimes committed since 2014 remain a focus for the international community.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Russia’s occupation of that permanent seat and of neighbouring territories constituted violations of the Charter of the United Nations. However, the reaction of the international community encouraged Russia to continue in that vein and served as carte blanche for further violating all of the basic principles of the Charter. We must put an end to that cycle of impunity. It is our moral and legal duty to state that the actions of the Moscow regime are not compatible with the status of a permanent member or with its presence in the United Nations in general. The first Nuremberg judgment referred to numerous Nazi crimes against children. In particular, it includes Himmler’s words about Nazi forced-adoption practices, which sound terribly relevant today.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“It denies us the right to live as a nation, and finally, it denies us our right to live as human beings. The only role that Russia assigns to Ukraine, a founding member of the United Nations, is that of a lawless colony where the local population either bows to forced Russification or faces deportation and repression. We have opted to fight to defend our independence and freedom and a future that we will choose ourselves. In that fight, we are opposing a country that occupied the territories of several other neighbours before attacking Ukraine. But let us not forget that the first case of Russia’s occupation after 1991 took place right here, with its occupation of the permanent seat on the Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“As stated in the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine of 24 August 1991, that step was triggered by “the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the State coup d’état in the [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] on 19 August 1991”. The proclamation of independence also continued “the thousand-year tradition of State development in Ukraine”. It has always been a matter of national pride that our independence was restored peacefully, and Ukraine has eagerly taken a path of democratic development as a peace-loving nation, reliable partner and friendly neighbour. However, mortal danger is again hanging over my country, and it comes from the same place — the Kremlin. It denies us our right to live as a sovereign nation.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. We thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing, which once again highlighted the devastating impact of the Russian aggression on global security, on the United Nations and on Ukraine above all. We are grateful to our civil-society briefers Ms. Kateryna Rashevska and Mr. Mykola Kuleba for their insightful briefings on crimes committed against children. Today Ukraine marks the thirty-second anniversary since the restoration of its independence. As President Zelenskyy said in his address today, that is 32 years of uninterrupted independence, which will endure, which we will not allow to be torn apart and on which Ukrainians will not lose their grip.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“The only way to avoid further deterioration and expansion of the scope of war is to maintain the solidarity and unity of purpose towards the need to restore respect for the principles of the Charter of the United Nations; to ensure the military defeat of Russia in Ukraine and accountability for the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity; and to deprive Russia of the capabilities to wage wars and inflict harm on its neighbours and people around the world. To conclude, I join the demands of the previous speakers who affirmed that the Council must — I repeat — must act. The meeting rose at 12.40 p.m.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“It includes, among other things, food security, which the Russian Federation is so desperately trying to undermine through its devastating armed attacks and sea blockades against my country. The peace formula introduced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in November 2022 stands today as the only guide pointing the way towards restoring a just and lasting peace and stability in the region and a world order based on the rule of law. We appeal to Member States to join the initiative and to take part in the implementation of the specific points of the formula.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“Instead of seeking peace, they continue to dream of a big war in which Ukraine would not be the sole target. Threats from Putin’s ally Lukashenko about the intentions of the Wagner Group “to go west to Warsaw, to Rzeszow” serve as another example of their unwillingness to proceed towards de-escalation. Allow me to also reiterate that, unlike Russia, which seeks only greater war, Ukraine has proposed the peace formula, the fundamental principles of which align with the resolution on principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine (General Assembly resolution ES-11/6), supported by 141 votes in the General Assembly (see A/ES-11/PV.19).”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“The main goal of such “recreation” for Ukrainian children is claimed to be “to ensure the sociocultural integration of children into Russian society”, which effectively means aggressive brainwashing. According to available information, since the beginning of the invasion, more than 3,000 Ukrainian children have been transported to Belarus from the temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions under the guise of so-called health rehabilitation. Yesterday the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on increasing the age of conscription. While introducing the draft, the Chair of the Duma Defence Committee, Kartapolov, a former high-ranking Russian Army general, openly said that “this law has been written for a big war, for general mobilization, and now this big war is already being felt”.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“Russian forces insidiously and cruelly attacked the city in the evening, targeting a local pond where families with children were resting. The Ukrainian children who have been trapped in the occupied territories of Ukraine are now subject to anti-Ukrainian indoctrination and propaganda aimed at instilling hatred towards Ukraine, its language, culture and history. To that end, the Russian occupation Administration sent children to the occupied Crimea, the Russian Federation and Belarus for so-called vacation and recreation. There is a significant increase in the number of organized trips of groups of children, not only to the territorially closer Crimea and the Krasnodar region but also to Russia’s far east. There are plans to take at least 30,000 children away from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“We reiterate that the Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports, the destruction of their infrastructure, the obstruction of grain exports and the intimidation of foreign merchant vessels should be considered an attack on the freedom of navigation. Those actions also aim at eliminating a market competitor, thereby deliberately raising world food prices and making a profit at the expense of the millions of people around the world who will suffer. Odesa is not the only place where the Russian army is increasing the scale of destruction and casualties, in particular among children. On 24 July, Russia deliberately shelled with multiple rocket launchers the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region. Three people, including two children, were killed; six others, including four children, were wounded.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“To that end, the aggressor continues its attacks against port infrastructure and grain storage facilities in Ukraine’s south. On 24 July, Russia launched drones of Iranian origin to attack Reni, a port city on the Danube River in the Odesa region. Three storage facilities full of grain were destroyed. Those aggressive actions merit a strong response; otherwise, Russia will be encouraged to further undermine the security situation in the Black Sea by attacking civilian vessels and laying additional mines in the waters adjacent to the Ukrainian coastline. There are grounds to believe that Russia is preparing such incidents for the purposes of blaming Ukraine and discouraging vessels from other countries from entering Ukrainian waters and using Ukrainian ports.”
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“Just last week, following another such attack, the Chinese Consulate was damaged. What is most terrible is that each Russian attack increases the number of fatalities among the civilian population. The last strike on Odesa, on the night of 23 July, killed one civilian and wounded 22 people. We appreciate the clear message from the Secretary- General, who strongly condemned the Russian Federation’s missile attack on Odesa. The Secretary- General’s concerns about the increasing threat to Ukrainian culture and heritage are completely justified, as both are considered by the Russian aggressor to be primary targets in their attempts to eliminate the Ukrainian identity. Ukrainian grain and other foodstuffs remain another target that Russia is trying to eliminate, not caring at all about the severe implications for global food security.”
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“This strike also coincided with the destruction of the Culture Centre of Folk Art and Art Education in the city of Mykolaiv, a hundred kilometres away.” A preliminary assessment in Odesa has revealed damage to several museums inside the buffer zone of World Heritage property, including the Odesa Archaeological Museum, the Odesa Maritime Museum and the Odesa Literature Museum. They had all been marked by UNESCO and local authorities with the Blue Shield, the distinctive emblem of the 1954 Hague Convention. In total, nearly 50 buildings were damaged or destroyed following the attack, including four schools, five kindergartens and two extracurricular educational institutions. The building of the Greek Consulate was also damaged, and it is already the second consular office in Odesa to be hit by Russian terror.”
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“As a result, the historic centre of Odesa, a designated World Heritage site, sustained heavy damage. The barrage of Russian missiles hit 29 historic and cultural landmarks, including museums and religious and residential buildings. As follows from the statement made by UNESCO: “Taking place just two weeks after the strike that destroyed a historic building in Lviv, this attack is the second to date in an area protected under the World Heritage Convention, in violation of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.”
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