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Kyslytsya

lines on the record: 887
first: 2010-10-26
most recent: 2023-12-29
sittings or episodes: 80
sources: un-security-council

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“I recognize the silent, residual presence of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. I would like to thank the United Kingdom presidency for organizing this meeting of the Security Council at the request of the delegation of Ukraine. Last Friday we informed the Security Council of Russia’s deliberate attacks in the Odesa region immediately after Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Since that time, Russia has escalated its missile terror against Odesa. On 23 July, Russia carried out its fifth airstrike in a row, shelling the city centre of Odesa with 19 missiles of different types, including anti-ship missiles. We reiterate that using anti-ship missiles against ground targets effectively turns them into low-precision weapons of indiscriminate effect.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9386 (2023) · source
“What do they want to liberate us from? Why are they committing a genocide of the Ukrainian people? When will their Government stop paying lip service to God’s law and doing evil and bringing darkness? The meeting rose at 11.30 a.m.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source
“A country that considers itself Orthodox cannot pay lip service to God’s law and at the same time do evil and bring darkness.” What is important is that those are questions asked by a person whom Moscow itself had seemed to trust and listen to, based on the fact that Putin himself awarded Metropolitan Agafangel the Order of Honour and the Order of Friendship some years ago. He is not our briefer, not a person in our pocket or our witness, but a person whom Putin himself awarded multiple medals. We are all interested in getting an answer to the question posed by Metropolitan Agafangel, a question that the Russian delegation has not yet been able to provide answers to. Instead, it persists in mocking the mandate and procedures of this United Nations organ. Let me conclude by repeating the question asked by Metropolitan Agafangel.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source
“Since 24 February 2022, Russia has launched a large-scale military aggression against our native Ukraine.” People are dying, human blood is being shed, cities and villages, churches and monasteries are being destroyed. Whatever the goal of the shameful so-called special military operation, it cannot justify killing and violence, destruction and forced displacement. We still do not understand. What do they want to liberate us from? Life? It is a true genocide of the Ukrainian people.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source
“I will not read my full statement at this meeting for the sake of brevity. We will make the full version available. We regret that Russia persists in misusing the platform of the Security Council in its attempts to substantiate its propaganda narratives aimed at legitimizing the invasion of Ukraine. I will not dignify the humbug of the Russian representative by commenting on it. What I would like to do is cite Metropolitan Agafangel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has been referred to so often in the Chamber today. He is the Head of the diocese of Odesa. He wrote in a letter following the attack, “On the orders of the leadership of the Russian Federation, a Russian missile hit the spiritual heart of the peace-loving city of Odesa, its Cathedral of the Transfiguration.”
2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source
“I ask them to draw the attention of the relevant United Nations officials, in particular the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to the public confession of the officials of the Belarus Red Cross, in which they admit to their involvement in the illegal mass removal by force of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine. I also ask them to properly monitor and report on that shocking situation.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“We call on the international community to condemn Russia’s actions and take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of navigation in the Black Sea as a guarantee of food security around the world. In the words of my President, “Russian terrorists want to become exemplary in the way they destroy life. We will become exemplary in the way we protect life and in the way life then responds — justly and inevitably — to every blow inflicted on every terrorist.” Before I conclude, I would like to use this opportunity to make a formal request to the representatives of the Secretary-General present in this Chamber.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“The World Food Programme has shipped more than 725,000 tons to support humanitarian operations, relieving hunger in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and Yemen. Russia’s withdrawal from the Grain Initiative and its constant cynical attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure, means of navigation and grain terminals are nothing but its attempts to eliminate a market competitor, deliberately raise world food prices and profit at the expense of millions of people around the world. We call on our partners to fully support Ukraine’s initiative to establish a humanitarian maritime corridor in the Black Sea. The humanitarian corridor will restore vital food supply routes to the regions that need them the most.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“Lacking any credible argument to justify what could not be justified, its attacks on the right to food of people throughout the world, Russia continues to cynically claim that the Black Sea Grain Initiative was a commercial endeavour, not a humanitarian one. I am not going to focus on the moral aspects of such claims from a State that increases its revenues by stealing Ukrainian grain from the occupied territories, which then ends up on the global markets. At the same time, I will remind the Council of the figures mentioned by the Secretary- General in his statement of 17 July. The Initiative has ensured the safe passage of over 32 million tons of food commodities from Ukrainian ports and helped to reduce food prices by over 23 per cent since March last year.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“There is no basis to believe that merchant vessels of foreign nations are supporting military efforts simply by exporting grain to other countries that need it in order to avert the threat of hunger. Russia’s actions cannot be justified by any norms of international law, including the belligerent’s right to blockade. Russia’s declaration has no legitimate direct military objective. Instead, it is intended to intimidate neutral States. Russia’s declaration covers the entire Black Sea, not just an area immediately around Ukrainian ports, and moreover, does not make exceptions for medical and other humanitarian considerations, as is required by the laws of naval warfare.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“Russia’s threats to use force against civilian vessels, regardless of their flag, merits strong condemnation. Those threats are an attack on freedom of navigation throughout the world. Russia’s intention to consider foreign vessels as military targets grossly violates its obligations under international law towards all States that conduct peaceful navigation in the Black Sea. According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, merchant vessels of States not involved in an armed conflict have the right to free and peaceful navigation, which is not considered an act of aggression. Norms of international humanitarian law prohibit any attacks against vessels of neutral States if they do not engage in belligerent acts or do not support military efforts.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“At the same time, it is difficult for Ukrainian air defence to detect and shoot down such missiles, as they approach targets at high speed and low altitude. The low accuracy of anti-ship missiles leads to tragedies such as the one that occurred on 20 July in Mykolayiv, in which a Russian missile hit a residential building, killing a married couple in their apartment and wounding another 19 civilians, including five children. Fatalities among civilians were also recorded in Odesa, which sustained heavy missile shelling in recent days. On 19 July 2023, the ministry of war of Russia declared that the Russian Federation would attack all merchant vessels in Black Sea waters headed to Ukrainian ports. In fact, the representative of Putin’s regime has already repeated the same statement here at today’s meeting.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“According to expert assessments, further attacks on Ukrainian ports, increased risk to industrial complexes and the inability to export grains by sea routes will lead to further increases in corn and wheat prices in the short run. There is also a risk of the suspension of operations at several Ukrainian oilseed processing plants and a reduction in the processing pace of sunflower seeds and rapeseed, which will have a significantly impact on global prices for sunflower oil. The terrorist nature of the shelling is aggravated by the fact that missiles such as the Onyx and Kh-22 are designed as anti-ship missiles to be launched from the Bastion-P ground-based coastal defence system. They have low precision against ground targets.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“In fact, since Russia has already brought to this Chamber many oddballs, allow me to play back the original in Russian. I am sorry for the technical difficulties. I will send the original video to the Council later on. As for the intervention of a certain self-proclaimed microeconomist, Mr. Khazin, I would like to refer him to the famous lecture of Professor Harry Frankfurt on humbug: “He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does [...] He pays no attention to it at all”. By virtue of this, Mr. Khazin’s statement is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. The current actions of Russia only serve to confirm that Ms. Simonyan was indeed heard.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“As a result of the strike by Kalibr missiles, 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley were destroyed, as reported by Odesa regional authorities. Putin’s envoy has tried to invent arguments as to why Russia is so persistently undermining global food security by destroying Ukrainian grain and other foodstuffs. The sly purpose, however, was revealed by Russia itself at the beginning of June at the so-called Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. The head of the infamous Russia Today state propaganda factory, Margarita Simonyan, in the presence of Putin, openly stated: “All our hope is for the famine — here is what it means. It means that the famine will start now, and they will lift the sanctions and be friends with us, because they will realize it is necessary”.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“Since Monday, the barrage of Russian missile and drone strikes has mainly targeted the infrastructure and storage facilities of Ukrainian ports. From 18 to 20 July alone, Russia attacked Ukraine with 56 cruise missiles and 87 drones of Iranian origin. The list of missiles included Kalibr, Onyx, Kh-22, Iskander and Kh-59 missiles. In the port of Chernomorsk alone, Russian strikes destroyed 60,000 tons of grain. For a long time, that cargo was intended to be loaded onto a large-tonnage vessel. The vessel, however, spent over 60 days in the queue of the grain corridor owing to inspections being sabotaged by Russia. The missile attacks also destroyed grain terminals, reservoirs and berths of the ports of Odesa and Chernomorsk. Last night, Russia continued its missile terror, targeting grain warehouses.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their insightful and comprehensive briefings. I would also like to express my particular gratitude to the delegation of Ecuador for the personal participation in this meeting of His Excellency Foreign Minister Gustavo Manrique and for his principled statement. I also recognize the representative of the person on the International Criminal Court’s wanted list in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. The first days following the undermining of the Black Sea Grain Initiative have unequivocally testified to the Russian rationale behind that insidious step. Not bothering to fabricate any plausible explanation, Russia has proceeded to deliberately destroy Ukrainian capabilities for grain export.”
2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source
“We also urge the international community to reinforce the joint efforts aimed at combating the uncontrolled transfer of those items, which are prohibited under Security Council resolution 2231 (2015). Finally, if Russia insists that the photos with Iranian drones are fake, why does it so resolutely oppose United Nations inspections to corroborate its statements?”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Any further delay to the Organization’s comprehensive consideration of the facts regarding violations of Council resolutions by Iran and the Russian Federation will undermine, if not discredit, the credibility of the Council, as well as its ability to ensure the implementation of its own resolutions. Since, on 9 June, the United Nations team had not visited Ukraine, we shared a document (S/2023/418) containing the relevant evidence of the supply of the Iranian-origin UAVs to the Russian Federation, which is prohibited under resolution 2231 (2015). We once again reaffirm our readiness to facilitate the respective visits of the United Nations experts to Ukraine at the earliest possible opportunity to study samples of the recovered Iranian-origin UAVs that the Russian Federation uses in their ongoing war against Ukraine.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Moreover, the competent authorities of Ukraine possess still more alarming information about the intention of the Russian Federation to continue further attacks on Ukraine with more advanced Iranian ballistic missiles and UAV systems. The Government of Ukraine assesses that the transfer of UAVs from Iran to the Russian Federation constitutes a flagrant violation of the resolution 2231 (2015), in particular annex B, paragraph 4, of that document. In line with the mandate of resolution 2231 (2015), Ukraine has asked multiple times on a bilateral level, as well as in correspondence with the Office of the Secretary-General, for United Nations experts to visit Ukraine to inspect recovered UAVs of Iranian origin in order to facilitate the resolution’s implementation.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“According to the results of those studies, Ukrainian investigators and independent international experts identified evidence confirming the Iranian origin of the UAVs used by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Armed Forces of Ukraine also intercepted UAVs marked as Geran-1 and Geran-2. After detailed technical examination, those UAVs appeared to be Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 respectively — capable of delivering payloads to a range greater than 300 kilometres. They were simply renamed with the Russian names Geran-1 and Geran-2. Despite numerous official denials and statements, Iran continues its transfers of UAVs to the Russian Federation. They are then used by Putin’s regime not only as a weapon on the battlefield, but as a method of warfare against highly populated areas and critical infrastructure in Ukraine.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Right now, those actions are directly affecting peace and security in Europe. Since September 2022, the Russian Federation has massively used the Iranian Shahed-131, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in its full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine, in particular as an element of its terror strategy against the civilian population and critical infrastructure. As of today, more than 1,000 launches by the Russian Federation of Iranian UAVs over the territory of Ukraine have been recorded. All types of Iranian UAVs that struck or were shot down over the territory of Ukraine, as well as their debris, were thoroughly disassembled and studied.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings, as well as the Secretariat for its important role in supporting the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and, in particular, the fifteenth report of the Secretary-General on the subject prepared for today’s discussion (S/2023/473). I would also like to thank Ambassador Frazier and her team for the briefing and work as Facilitator. We are extremely alarmed by the findings of the Secretary-General’s latest report on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), in particular the violation by Iran and Russia of the resolution’s annex B, paragraph 4. Those unlawful activities are not limited to the region.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Holding all violators accountable, whether for violations against children or other war crimes and crimes against humanity, remains a top priority. Together with its partners, Ukraine will spare no effort in bringing all perpetrators and their commanders to justice.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“That includes ending all grave violations against children in Ukraine and ensuring the timely and safe return of all Ukrainian children who are forcefully and illegally held by Russia. In the meantime, however, the intervention made today by Putin’s envoy, who is wanted by the ICC, as always was humbug and hypocrisy — in order to avoid more precise language to describe it. We call on the international community to continue exerting pressure on the Russian Federation to cease its aggression against Ukraine and withdraw all troops from Ukrainian territory within its internationally recognized borders, as the most effective measure to protect Ukrainian children. Russia must also immediately and safely return all Ukrainian children whom it is illegally holding.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“We hope one day to see the full implementation of the most comprehensive action plan developed by Russia together with the United Nations, as stated by Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba de Potgieter during her press briefing on 27 June. Only then may it be justified to name Russia as one of the listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection of children. In that regard, we urge the United Nations, and especially the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to persistently demand that the Russian Federation fulfil all its obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“The assault resulted in 43 injuries, including 12 children, among them a 3-month-old newborn, a 10-month-old infant and a 1-year-old child. It is also without doubt that the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups have engaged in similar barbaric practices in other countries and regions. Since Russia continues to disregard any dialogue with United Nations human rights entities, such as the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice, we expect to see evidence of its true determination to cooperate with the United Nations and the children and armed conflict team, in particular.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“As agreed during the visit, a joint prevention plan with the United Nations has been drafted and will soon be signed. Ukraine welcomes the Secretary-General’s decision to include the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups in the annex to his report. The Russian army undoubtedly belongs on the very same list that includes the most egregious criminals, such as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, Al-Shabaab and the Taliban, to name a few, given the horrific crimes that it has committed and continues to commit daily against children in Ukraine. Yesterday alone, on 4 July, Russia once again perpetrated an act of terrorism by targeting a civilian neighbourhood in Pervomaiskyi, in the Kharkiv region.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“We appreciated the Secretary-General’s decision in July 2022 to monitor the situation in Ukraine and established constructive dialogue and cooperation with his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. In order to further that commitment, the Government of Ukraine has appointed a focal point on conflict and armed children. We also established an interministerial committee to ensure regular communication with the children and armed conflict team, Furthermore, the Government has implemented various preventive measures, including the voluntary development of a national prevention plan aimed at preventing grave violations against children in the context of Russia’s war. We were pleased to welcome Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba de Potgieter and her team to Ukraine in May, following our own invitation.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“Even those terrible statistics of grave violations against children are not definitive, owing to the lack of access to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. It is crucial to remember that Ukraine has been a victim of Russian aggression since 2014. Therefore, given our belief in the potential of the children in armed conflict mandate to enhance the protection of Ukrainian children affected by the war, my delegation has consistently requested, since that time, that the situation in Ukraine be included in the report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict whenever the Council meets to discuss it. As a party to core international instruments related to the safeguarding of children’s rights, Ukraine remains determined to further strengthen children’s protection, particularly in the context of Russia’s aggression.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“Furthermore, nearly 1,500 medical facilities have been damaged, with 185 of them destroyed. Unfortunately, the report fails to adequately address the issue of the mass abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia. Russian authorities themselves 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. To date, Ukrainian authorities have identified 19,492 such children, including 4,390 who are orphans or lack parental care. So far, only 380 have been successfully returned and reunited with their families.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“It is crucial not to forget that the numbers verified do not reflect the true scale and volume of those violations, as mentioned in the report. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected all of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children, nearly two thirds of whom have been internally or externally displaced. Due to the unabated bombardment and shelling by the Russian armed forces, as of 3 July, at least 494 children had been killed and 1,036 injured. And 379 children have been reported missing during hostilities. In addition, 13 cases of sexual violence committed against children in various regions have been recorded by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Ministry of Education reports that nearly 3,450 educational institutions across the country have been damaged, with 331 of them destroyed.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“I thank the United Kingdom presidency for organizing this important open debate, and Virginia Gamba de Potgieter and Omar Abdi for their insightful briefings. I also want to extend a special thanks to Ms. Violeta for sharing her testimony and practical recommendations today. The Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/363) reveals a troubling trend in 2022: a rise in children affected by grave violations in 25 conflict situations. The exponential increase in both grave violations against children and the number of conflict situations poses challenges to the children and armed conflict architecture, necessitating additional support such as adequate resources for child-protection specialists and activities. The devastating impact of Russia’s aggression on children in Ukraine serves as a vivid example of that.”
2023-07-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9366 (2023) · source
“In the meantime, we call on the Security Council to keep an eye on the Russian crisis and to take the necessary steps to address many imminent threats and challenges that that failing State poses to the world. The meeting rose at 5.20 p.m.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“The international community should therefore address the Russia crisis as one of its priority tasks. I reiterate that the military defeat of Russia in Ukraine, accountability for the crimes committed and international control over the Russian military arsenal should be the necessary elements of the resolution of the Russia crisis. Ukraine continues to do its best in order to survive and stop the evil. We are grateful to all responsible nations that support us, including by supplying the necessary weapons. Their use has been an element of Ukraine exercising its inherent right to self-defence under Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations for a noble goal — to restore respect to the United Nations Charter.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“In addition, the Russian Government allocated Rub110 billion — that is approximately $1.29 billion — for insurance payments for Wagner Group fighters. Those expenditures do not include the equipment and weapons that were generously given to the Wagner Group all these years. Putin’s confession revealed not only the habit of lying to everyone everywhere. The case of the Wagner Group, which has been a product of the Kremlin from the very beginning, also showed that Putin and his cronies are not reliable or predictable, even one step ahead. The regime continues to pose an existential threat not only to its neighbours and other regions of the world, but also to Russia itself. Putin’s regime will only keep degenerating, while generating new crises and threats, until it finally collapses.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“At his press conference with the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel in January 2020 about the presence of the Wagner Group in Libya, Putin said, “If there are Russian citizens there, they do not represent the interests of the Russian State and do not receive money from the Russian Government”. At a press conference with French President Macron in February 2022 about the activities of the Wagner Group in Mali, Putin said, “Regarding Wagner, as I have already said, the Russian Government has nothing to do with it”. And this week, Putin confessed that the Wagner Group was fully funded by the State and had received Rub86.3 billion, which is equivalent to $1 billion, from the State budget between May 2022 and May 2023. One third of Russian regions have annual budgets that are smaller than that amount.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“Saturday’s events also highlighted that the safety and security of weapons arsenals on Rus- sian territory are easily compromised by Wagner-like armed formations. There are several lessons that the in- ternational community should draw from those events. While proving its inadequacy by continuing the war against Ukraine with no chance of success, Putin’s regime also demonstrated that it is no longer capable of controlling its own country. Saturday’s advance on Moscow was stopped only by the decision of the Wagner chief, following the engagement of Belarussian dictator Lukashenko. Putin’s regime has been built on lies and hypocrisy. For years, Putin lied that the Wagner Group had no affiliation with the Russian Government.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“For decades, Russia has multiplied crises throughout the world, while trying to hide its responsibility behind such proxy structures. Finally, Russian aggression has incrementally started returning to its home harbour. It turned out that Russia, which so generously labelled other nations as failed States, showed the failure and incapabil- ity of its own governance, starting from the highest level. The whole world witnessed the paralysis of the au- thorities when armed mercenary units easily crossed the State border of the Russian Federation; when they took the city of Rostov-on-Don, of more than 1 million peo- ple, without a fight; when they advanced with little resist- ance towards the Russian capital, shooting down Russian aircraft and helicopters from modern anti-aircraft missile systems along the way.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“At the same time, I cannot but note that the issue of illicit arms trafficking in and out of Russia appears to be more than pertinent and timely following this weekend’s events in Russia. On numerous occasions, including in the Chamber, Ukraine has drawn the attention of the United Nations community to the security threats stemming from the Russian practice of recruiting people with criminal backgrounds for proxy armed formations and equipping those formations with a whole range of conventional weapons, thereby helping them to evolve into de facto parallel armies. That was the case with the infamous Wagner Group, known for its crimes in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine. While operating there, the Wagner Group used weapons that were not subject to any control mechanisms, including internal Russian ones.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“The Russian armed forces do not tire of proving the validity of the Secretary-General’s decision to list them and affiliated armed groups in his annual report on children and armed conflict (S/2023/363). That is exactly the list on which the Russian army belongs after all the horrible crimes it has committed and continues to commit daily against children in Ukraine. And it is not because Ukraine receives weapons that three young girls were killed by Russia in Kramatorsk, but because Russia still has weapons and remains willing to kill. I urge those who seem to be concerned about weapons transfers to conflict zones not to forget the difference between the aggressor and the defender who fights to survive.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. Today he has again described to us what the “way out” should look like, according to Russia. In a nutshell, it is a situation in which Russia has enough weapons to attack Ukraine any time it so decides, while Ukraine has no weapons to defend itself. In reality, it would mean that bloody attacks such as Tuesday’s missile strike on Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, could happen on a permanent basis, without any hindrance. Twelve killed, including 3 children, and 60 wounded — that was the outcome of a Russian missile hitting a local restaurant in the city centre. By the way, what source of information is more authoritative and reliable on that strike than the Russian Ministry of War?”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“Putin’s regime is cancer, and the world cannot be strong and healthy while its cells continue to spread from Putin’s bunker and form the new tumours around the world and, indeed, in the Security Council, in this very Chamber. It should be removed before it travels further in our blood and kills us. The choice is ours. Let us choose life.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“As my President said when addressing the Conference, “although no one has the power to cleanse the depths of human nature from the evil that sometimes rises to the surface and destroys and kills ... we are able to protect life and overcome the ruins after the Russian aggression in such a way as to block the path for evil — meaning for any new aggressions ... the world is watching to see if we will restore normal life in such a way that our transformation will land an ideological defeat on the aggressor.” In his speech in Paris just yesterday, Secretary- General Guterres said: “[i]n 2023, more than 750 million people do not have enough to eat. The coronavirus disease pandemic [COVID-19] and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have exacerbated the situation.” In fact, Russia is worse than COVID-19.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“In a statement delivered today at the media stakeout right before this Security Council meeting, we said that Russia’s and Iran’s actions violated resolution 2231 (2015) and that the Secretariat of the United Nations must respond to growing calls from the international community to investigate those violations. Despite the war being at its height, we have already started working on post-war recovery. The Ukraine Recovery Conference, held this week in London, sent a strong political message that Ukraine and its allies have no doubt in the ultimate victory of my country — a victory that will guarantee a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for the benefit of all nations.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Russian cruise and ballistic missiles launched on Kyiv during the visit of the delegation of African leaders showed Russia’s real disdain for global efforts to restore peace and to protect the world from aggression. This attack was but one in an endless line of daily air strikes with missiles, multiple launch rocket systems, guided aerial bombs and Iran-made attack drones, resulting in significant casualties and destruction. As of today, the Russian Federation has launched more than 1,000 Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle systems over the territory of Ukraine.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Ukraine will liberate all its territories, and it will take as long as necessary, because we value the lives of our soldiers and civilians and do not apply the strategy of human-wave attacks and total destruction of civilian infrastructure. We appreciate the efforts of nations that express their willingness to contribute to genuine peace, which attest to the persistent validity and credibility of the United Nations Charter. The General Assembly outlined the modalities of such a peace in resolution ES-11/6, entitled “Principles of the United Nations Charter underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine”. Thus far, Russia has not demonstrated any willingness to give up its aggressive path, deliberately insulting nations that come up with peaceful initiatives.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“That is why Russia blew up the dam and mined the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant to intimidate the international community. That is why it fills its own army with convicted criminals and deploys blocking units behind the Russian positions, tasking them to give soldiers in the first line of defence no escape from combat. The killing of the Russian soldiers attempting to retreat are evidenced by the testimonies of captured Russians, as well as by video footage taken recently by Ukrainian drones. In some areas Ukrainian soldiers continue to move forward, despite the heavily fortified occupied areas. In some areas they defend their positions and resist Russia’s intensified attacks.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“The military defeat of Russia in Ukraine and ensuring accountability for the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the necessary elements of this resolution. Appeasement options, such as territorial concessions to Russia and temporarily freezing the conflict, will serve only as delayed-action mines, with the detonator in the hands of the Kremlin. If such an option is implemented, the resulting explosion, given the damage to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, will reverberate throughout the world. Any terrorist act aims at intimidating and generating fear. That is precisely how the Kremlin regime attempts to achieve its aggressive goals. Russia has heavily fortified the occupied Ukrainian territory, but it does not believe in its fortification structures or its own troops’ resilience.”
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“We therefore urge the international community to take the threat of this act of nuclear terror seriously and to step up pressure on the Russian Federation to prevent these menacing developments, including but not limited to introducing strengthened restrictive measures against the Russian nuclear industry and military-industrial complex. We also expect an objective assessment by the Director- General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Rafael Grossi, regarding Russia’s criminal actions. Only strong and adequate steps aimed at reducing Moscow’s capabilities to inflict harm regionally and globally will contribute to resolving the crisis created by Russia.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source