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Kyslytsya

lines on the record: 887
first: 2010-10-26
most recent: 2023-12-29
sittings or episodes: 80
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“The Kakhovka reservoir has been decimated, resulting in approximately 95,000 tons of dead fish. Some 500 square kilometres of Ukrainian forests have been flooded, and at least half of them will die. Some of the 20,000 wild animals that inhabited the flooded area could hardly have survived. It is a matter of alarm that, according to intelligence information, Russia is considering the scenario of a terrorist attack at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant leading to radiation leakage. The dam explosion has made it clear that Russia is ready to apply a scorched-earth tactic in response to the deteriorating military situation on the ground in the captured lands that they doubt they can hold.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“While Russia simply denies access in the occupied areas, it also tries to undermine humanitarian operations in Ukraine-controlled areas with unabated shelling. For instance, on 20 June, a rescue team of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine came under Russian fire in Kherson. One rescuer was killed, and eight others were wounded. The United Nations in Ukraine characterized this incident as yet another example of the human impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A comprehensive assessment of the implications of this act of terror has yet to be made, although it is clear that we are dealing with one of the biggest human- made disasters in Europe in decades. In particular, oil pollutants that weigh at least 150 tons are drifting along the Dnipro River and may reach the Mediterranean.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“We commend the United Nations humanitarian activities in the Ukraine-controlled part of the Kherson region and support the United Nations efforts to obtain necessary access to the areas temporarily occupied by Russia. To this end, the Government of Ukraine has promptly provided all security guarantees to the United Nations for fulfilling humanitarian operations in the entire affected area. We echo United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown’s call on the Russian authorities to act in accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian law and grant access to people in the occupied territory who urgently need life-saving assistance. The situation there remains critical, and the number of people reported missing so far — 109 persons — may not fully reflect the grim reality.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Evacuating people, providing them with humanitarian aid, ensuring access to drinking water for the local population and preventing infectious diseases have been among the key priorities of my Government. Systemic work, marked with the engagement of the United Nations and other international actors, has been organized on the right bank of the Dnipro River. At the same time, the Russian occupiers have turned the left bank into a “no-go zone”, closed even to the United Nations. It is appalling that Russia not only refused to rescue the local population in the affected areas under its temporary military control, but it also declined the United Nations request for access to these areas.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union, whose statement today, as usual, was as insincere, perverse and cynical as his war-party leader’s goal was a year ago, when he said, according to the Russian official tweet, that “[t]he goal of Russia’s special military operation is to stop any war that could take place on Ukrainian territory or that could start from there.” Two weeks ago, this criminal regime blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in an attempt to prevent Ukraine’s possible counteroffensive actions across the Dnipro River, which was yet another blatant violation of the International Court of Justice order of 16 March 2022. Since then, Ukraine has done its utmost to mitigate the immediate consequences of this act of terror and ecocide.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“The technological crime of the Russian Federation confirms the high relevance of the peace formula of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We call on international partners to join its implementation as soon as possible, in particular with regard to the points on countering ecocide and ensuring nuclear and energy security. Russia will have to compensate those affected for its crime and its consequences for people, infrastructure and the environment.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“The reduction of the water level in the Nova Kakhovka reservoir will lead to a decrease in its level in all water intakes in surrounding regions, particularly the Nova Kakhovka canal, which supplies water to the occupied Berdiansk and most settlements in the Zaporizhzhya region. Due to the decrease in the water level in the Nova Kakhovka reservoir, there is also a danger of an incident at another critical infrastructure facility occupied by Russia — the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. As of now, there is no immediate threat to power plant. The situation is complex but under control. We call on the international community to resolutely condemn the Russian terrorist attack on the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“We urge the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations to send humanitarian missions to the left bank of the Dnipro River to help local residents affected by the flooding. The Ukrainian authorities are also ensuring the provision of humanitarian assistance to the local population — mostly drinking water, food and other necessities. It is already clear that the destruction of the dam will deprive or severely worsen the water supply to Crimea and the Kherson region and significantly complicate the situation in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“Additionally, places such as Oleshky and Hola Prystan may end up under water. Partial flooding may also affect Oleksandrivka, Shyroka Balka, Sofiivka, Vynohradne and other settlements. The level of water that can flood those areas may vary and, depending on the degree of dam destruction, it could reach 1.5 metres or more. The local authorities have organized the evacuation of residents from those settlements to other parts of Ukraine. On the Government-controlled territory of Ukraine, 17 settlements are planned to be evacuated, with more than 17,000 people. On the occupied territory of the left bank, 20 settlements are subject to evacuation, with approximately 25,000 people. It is a matter of concern that the Russian occupiers are not organizing the evacuation of civilians, although they have withdrawn their troops.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“It must be stopped and rendered harmless rather than appeased. That is why Russia’s defeat — a defeat that we will ensure, anyway — will be the most significant contribution to the security of our region and the entire world. The dam that the Russian Federation blew up held more than 18 million cubic metres of water. As a result of the Russian terrorist act, the upper part of the dam, which is the sixth stage of the Dnipro cascade, was partially destroyed. Notably, 11 of 28 sections of the dam were destroyed. As of noon, New York time, there has been an increase in the water level of 3.24 metres on the Dnipro River, near Kherson. According to the current scenario, the maximum extent of the flooded territory will occur within three to five days. The left bank of the Dnipro River coastline will suffer 8 times more than the right bank.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“It speaks volumes that one week before the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was blown up, on 30 May, the Russian Government adopted a decision envisaging that technical investigations would not be carried out into accidents at hazardous production facilities and hydraulic facilities that occurred as a result of “military operations, sabotage and acts of terrorism”. The explosion of the dam of the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is an act of ecological and technological terrorism — the biggest technological disaster in Europe in recent decades and yet another example of Russia’s genocide against Ukrainians. This is the Kremlin’s response to countries calling for peace talks with the Russian Federation. Through its actions, Russia has just reconfirmed that it is not at all interested in de-escalation or peace.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“There was little chance that the country which desperately denied its war crimes in Mariupol, Bucha, Izyum and at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant would acknowledge responsibility for today’s technological disaster. Let me note that Russia has been controlling the dam and the entire Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant for more than a year. It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside by shelling. It was mined by the Russian occupiers, and they blew it up. About to bite the dust on the front, here in the Security Council Chamber, Russia is floundering again in the mud of lies.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“By resorting to scorched-Earth tactics, or in this case to flooded-Earth tactics, the Russian occupiers have effectively recognized that the captured territory does not belong to them, and they are not able to hold those lands. The terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was previously discussed intensely at the level of the occupation forces in the Kherson region, propagandists on Russian television and the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which indicates that it was planned well in advance. The letter circulated by Putin’s Envoy last October was an element of that ground-setting strategy. The Russian statement today was therefore predictably deceitful. We have observed the same technique of blaming the victim for one’s own crimes.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“I thank you, Mr. President, as well as the members of the Security Council and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. I also recognize the representative of Putin’s terrorist regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. My delegation requested this urgent meeting of the Security Council as that regime has detonated a bomb of mass environmental destruction, which has led to the largest man-made disaster in Europe in decades. On the night of 6 June, the Russian Federation blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, which is located in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region. That was a terrorist act against Ukrainian critical infrastructure aimed at causing as many civilian casualties and as much destruction as possible.”
2023-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9340 (2023) · source
“I wish to recall that radiation and nuclear safety is the first point under the peace formula presented by the President of Ukraine, and it is vitally important to further consolidate efforts around this initiative, the implementation of which will ensure a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and prevent the recurrence of similar crimes in future, including in a nuclear area.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“We also deem it necessary to include these elements and the reference to the need to fully implement the aforementioned resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors on the situation in Ukraine in a new draft resolution of the Board of Governors, if such a document is proposed for adoption at its next session. Ukraine consistently adheres to the approaches designed to prevent a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which are reflected in the General Assembly resolution ES-11/6 entitled “Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine”, as well as in the peace formula of the President of Ukraine.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“In this regard, the principles to ensure nuclear safety and security at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant should also include the following elements: first, the withdrawal of troops and all other Russian personnel illegally present at the station; secondly, guarantees of uninterrupted power supply to the power plant from the territory under the control of the Government of Ukraine; and thirdly, a humanitarian corridor to ensure the rotation of management, operational and repair personnel of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in order to maintain it in safe condition.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“We realize the catastrophic consequences of such an incident both for Ukraine and neighbouring States, which is why our position on the fundamental principle of ensuring nuclear safety and security at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant remains clear and consistent. To ultimately remove the nuclear threats stemming from the illegal Russian presence at the plant, the troops and weaponry must be withdrawn, and the station must be de-occupied and returned to the legitimate full control of Ukraine. I would like to remind the Council that a clear call upon Russia to immediately cease all actions against and at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant so that the competent Ukrainian authorities may regain full control over the facility is also enshrined in relevant resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“In the case of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, however, due to the uniqueness of the situation — the illegal occupation of the station by another State — these principles must be complemented with the demand of the full demilitarization and de-occupation of the station. We reiterate that by illegally occupying the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and making it an element of its military strategy, Russia has violated all key international principles of nuclear safety and security and the vast majority of its obligations under international treaties. One can hardly consider Russia to be a reliable partner capable of upholding commitments it has undertaken. For its part, the Ukrainian side confirms that we have never resorted and will never resort to any action that could lead to a nuclear incident at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“Equipment, munition and explosives are located in the turbine buildings of units 1, 2 and 4 of the plant. The threat of a dangerous accident as a result of these irresponsible and criminal actions hangs over us. Accordingly, we support the IAEA Director General’s commitment to addressing this inappropriate situation and restoring nuclear safety and security at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in line with aforementioned seven indispensable pillars. We also take note of the Director General’s principles to help ensure nuclear safety and security at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. They are partially based on the seven indispensable principles, which are applicable to any nuclear facility across the globe.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“Since the beginning of Russia’s illegal occupation there have been seven emergency cases where the plant was in blackout, running only on diesel generators. The most recent blackout occurred a week ago, on 22 May, after the Russian missile attack resulted in the disconnection of the last high-voltage transmission line running, notably the Dniprovska line, which supplied power for the inhouse needs of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Thanks to the work of Ukrainian power engineers, the operation of the transmission line was restored at noon on the same day, and the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was reconnected to power from the Ukrainian power system. Russia continues to actively use the nuclear plant for military purposes, deploying approximately 500 military personnel and 50 units of heavy weaponry on the site.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“These actions have led to the violation of the physical integrity of the power plant and serious damage to the station and its facilities, thereby posing a direct threat to the lives and health of the operating personnel. The shelling seriously undermines the nuclear safety of the plant and could lead to a nuclear incident or accident, in clear violation of the first pillar of the IAEA Director General’s seven indispensable pillars of nuclear safety and security, which envisages that the physical integrity of nuclear installations, be it the reactors, the fuel ponds or the radioactive-waste stores, be properly maintained. Russian military activities regularly lead to the loss of off-site power.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. We express our appreciation for the professionalism and commitment of the experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is being temporarily and illegally occupied by Russia. They continue to work under extremely precarious conditions caused by regular dangerous provocations by Russian troops. We praise the bravery of the Ukrainian personnel working in inhumane conditions of constant intimidation and threats of detention and torture by the Russian military. Russian forces have mined the perimeter and shelled the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant site and adjacent areas.”
2023-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9334 (2023) · source
“The time has come for you to fulfil the instruction of your boss, who in January last year, in his particularly low-life style, had the gall to say something that it is high time for you to do yourself: “pack your bags and go, back across the 1991 borders”. (spoke in English) Get your junk and sling your hook. Get back across the 1991 borders. Take to your heels before we drop you to your knees. The meeting rose at 4.30 p.m.”
2023-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9325 (2023) · source
“It is time for the Russian hordes to withdraw from the occupied territories of Ukraine without any further delay and not in cars stolen from the local Ukrainian population. Hundreds of thousands of illegal Russian migrants should get out of Crimea and go back to Russia, where they came from. The Russist criminal bunker geezer still has two options: either to surrender or to repeat what happened in another bunker on 30 April 1945. (spoke in Russian) I must address the representatives of the criminal Putin regime with the words of their Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, a certain Ryabkov.”
2023-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9325 (2023) · source
“Ukraine will continue to exercise its right of self- defence in strict accordance with Article 51 of the Charter. We will continue to fight until every Ukrainian citizen and every parcel of our sovereign land are liberated and Russia suffers military defeat in Ukraine. We will continue to forge international solidarity until all Russian war criminals are held accountable. A formula for comprehensive, just and lasting peace already exists, and its main element, which follows on from General Assembly resolution ES-11/6 of 23 February 2023, is consistency with the Charter, including the principles of the sovereign equality and territorial integrity of States. If Russia is interested in surviving, it should cling to that resolution as to a lifebuoy and follow the path to peace that it charts.”
2023-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9325 (2023) · source
“Indeed, when addressing this issue, it is enough to return to basics: to begin with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, which envisages the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member State of the United Nations until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security; to continue with General Assembly resolution 3314 (XXIX), of 14 December 1974, which defines aggression as the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Charter; to continue further with General Assembly resolution ES-11/1, of 2 March 2022, which deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in violation of Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter, as well as subsequent emergency session resolutions reiterating that provision; and to note the order of the International Court of Justice of 16 March 2022, which indicates as a provisional measure that the Russian Federation shall immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 in the territory of Ukraine.”
2023-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9325 (2023) · source
“Ebo, Director and Deputy to the High Representative, for his briefing that exposed the baseless nature of the Russian allegations. I am also grateful to those members of the Security Council who have called a spade a spade today in relation to the Russian aggression.”
2023-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9325 (2023) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. When addressing the crimes of that regime, it important to remember that they derive from the genocidal practices of Putin’s predecessors in the Kremlin. It is exactly today that we commemorate the victims of one of the most horrendous crimes of Stalin’s regime: the attempt to exterminate the Crimean Tatar people through mass deportation from their native land, which started on 18 May 1944. The evil returned in 2014, with the attempted annexation of Crimea. It has changed its symbols but not its essence. If we do not stop the crimes of Putin’s regime, soon there will be no free dates in the calendar to commemorate the victims of all the crimes committed by Moscow. I thank Mr.”
2023-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9325 (2023) · source
“As my President said on 8 May, when Ukraine, along with the entire world, commemorated the victory over Nazism: “We in Ukraine give meaning to the words ‘never again’ — not only to remember, but also to protect; not only to value life, but also to the utmost to ensure that everyone who threatens life, everyone who brings aggression, everyone who resorts to terror against other nations, every such evil loses.” Ukraine has committed to stop this modern evil of Russia-ism. We are guided by the supreme principle of morality, which is a categorical imperative since it is not conditional upon one’s preferences.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“A week ago, we paid tribute to the victims and heroes of the Second World War, marking the end of that war in Europe. The atrocities of that war prompted our predecessors to commit to saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Now in Ukraine, Russia reminds us that our commemoration slogan, “never again”, is still a goal to be achieved. The lessons of the Second World War teach us that just and lasting peace can be possible only if evil is defeated and is not able to continue its aggression. Any attempt to appease the aggressor, at the expense of its victims, will only protract and broaden the scope of the tragedy.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“I will not even remind the Council of the immorality of such complaints from the aggressor State, which has been and remains the only threat to food shipments in the Black Sea. Let us just turn to the data, which clearly shows the benefits for Russia from the deal. The data indicates that Russian wheat exports in January and February 2023 nearly doubled from the same period one year earlier. We therefore consider those speculations to be an attempt to whitewash Russia’s deliberate practices to weaponize food supplies, and we urge the international community to give a resolute response. Let me remind some who have made statements here today that the Black Sea Grain Initiative is not due to expire this week. It is, however, the Russian blackmail deadline that expires this week.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“We are concerned about that, since as of 1 May, the inspection rate has dropped to an average of 2.9 inspections per day, compared to 6.6 in the period from August 2022 to April 2023. As a result, in April we were able to export through the grain corridor less than 3 million tons, which is only half of our agricultural export capacities. Together with the United Nations and Türkiye, Ukraine strives for the extension of the Initiative without any delay or disruption to shipments. According to experts, if it is blocked by Russia, global food prices could increase substantially again. That grim perspective should be taken seriously. It is disgusting that Russia still pretends to be on the losing side of the deal.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“In such extraordinary circumstances, Ukraine continues to act as a reliable contributor to global food security by implementing its agreement with the United Nations under the Black Sea Grain Initiative and advocating for expanding its geographical scope by including new Ukrainian ports. As of the beginning of May, Ukraine has exported 29.8 million tons of grain and foodstuffs this year. That number includes 600,000 tons of grain shipped by vessels chartered by the World Food Programme in support of its humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Yemen. That volume could have been significantly higher if Russia had not resorted to impeding practices.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“Our primary task today is to accelerate the demining process as much as possible, increase the number of demining teams and equip them with special equipment. Unfortunately, those people who risk their lives to clear Ukrainian territory of mines and restore safety for people are also a target for the Russist troops. Most recently, on 7 May in the Kherson region, nine members of a demining team were killed by Russian shells while on duty. The mine contamination in Ukraine is an issue affecting global food security, as more than 4,700 square kilometres of contaminated areas are agricultural lands.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“We call on the Secretary- General and the Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict to give a proper assessment of the gravity of the violations against children in Ukraine perpetrated by the Russist Government forces in the upcoming annual report. We believe that it should contribute to ensuring accountability for perpetrators and justice for Ukrainian children — victims of the Russist aggression. The invasion of the Soviet permanent seat in the Security Council should give neither immunity nor amnesty to war criminals. We have already brought to the Council’s attention the critical situation concerning the mine contamination of Ukrainian lands. According to preliminary estimates, 170,00 to 180,000 square kilometres of Ukraine’s territory are contaminated with mines and other explosive ordnance.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“We note with concern that Russia has reportedly intensified its deportation and abduction practices in the occupied territories under the guise of so-called evacuation. We join many others in the Council in reiterating that it is only the Russist troops that must be evacuated from the territory of Ukraine. As soon as that happens, the atrocities of the war will be over. We welcome the well-founded conclusions of the reports of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, established by the Human Rights Council, and by the Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which reconfirmed the enormous scale of violations and crimes committed by the Russist occupiers, in particular against children.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“According to the annual report of the UNICEF country office in Ukraine, education for an estimated 5.7 million children has been disrupted, while 1.5 million children face mental health issues. The forceful deportation of children is nothing but a well-planned Kremlin policy aimed at aggressive indoctrination, ethnic identification-change and the deprivation, for Ukraine, of its succeeding generations. The Ukrainian authorities have identified that to date, 19,393 children have been deported or abducted to the Russian Federation or to the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia — some 4,390 of whom are orphans or children without parental care. It has been possible to return only 364 children.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“Russia is violating the fundamental principles of child protection in wartime. As a result of the Russist aggression, 480 children have been killed, and 967 have been injured. To date, 13 cases of sexual violence against children have been verified by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in the Donetsk, Kyiv, Kherson, Mykolayiv and Chernihiv regions. The real numbers are definitely higher, and our law enforcement continues the investigations. Russist attacks have damaged 3,185 educational institutions, 330 of which were destroyed. In total, 1,412 health-care objects and 577 health-care facilities have been damaged, 258 facilities of which were destroyed.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“We are grateful to our friends and allies, who literally saved the lives of Ukrainians by helping us to reinforce our air defence, which enabled us to shoot down 23 of 25 missiles. However, more needs to be done to fully protect our skies and civilians. This weekend, Ukrainians also had to spend their time with air-raid sirens sounding in the background as Russia launched massive new attacks using dozens of Iranian drones, cruise missiles and S-300 rockets. The cities of Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Mykolayiv, Kharkiv and Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region suffered human casualties and serious damage to civilian infrastructure. In addition to the immediate harm caused to millions of Ukrainians by Russia’s war, the long-term effects of displacement, trauma and poverty will be felt for years to come. The most vulnerable suffer the most.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“On 7 May, a Russist missile strike damaged a mobile hospital in the Mykolayiv region that also belonged to the Ukrainian Red Cross. Since the beginning of the full-fledged Russist invasion, 25 facilities of the Ukrainian Red Cross have been damaged or destroyed. On 9 May, a massive barrage of 25 missiles slammed into Ukrainian cities. The day before that, on 8 May, the Ukrainian Air Force was able to down all 35 of the Iranian drones launched by Russia. Also on 8 May, Russian missiles completely destroyed a warehouse of the Ukrainian Red Cross in Odesa, along with all the humanitarian aid stored there. One employee was killed. As a result of the attack, the Odesa branch of the Ukrainian Red Cross was compelled to suspend the provision of humanitarian aid and the implementation of a number of humanitarian projects.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“Two days after the strike on Uman, on 1 May, another Ukrainian child, a 14-year-old boy, was killed in the village of Lyzunivka, in the Chernihiv region, by a Russian air bomb that also destroyed the local school. The attack was another case of the cowardly and despicable terror tactics that the Russist army has applied widely against the northern Ukrainian regions that were liberated a year ago — bombing Ukrainian border settlements from Russian air space. Like any other terrorists, the Russist servicemen do not care where those bombs fall. The main thing is that they must sow death and destruction. Terror aimed at the liberated areas has become a hallmark of the Russist army. On 3 May, Russia killed 23 people in the Kherson region alone, and 49 people were wounded — in a store, a railway station and a gas station and in their homes.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“So much for Putin’s envoy saying that Russia does not attack Ukrainian civilians. Many Council members have seen the heartbreaking video footage from Uman, where people desperately waited for hours near the rubble for their loved ones to be retrieved. In Russia, television viewers watched that footage on the State-owned propaganda channel Russia-1. Meanwhile, the Russist “Ministry of War” posted on social media the words “Right on target”. The fact is that since day one of the Russian invasion, regardless of the torrent of lies from the Russist representative on the Council, innocent civilians have been a deliberate target for Russian weapons and a permitted object for Russian crimes. Russism and its disciples, including in this Chamber, have defied logic, all laws of non-contradiction and all semblance of decency.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“I thank you, Madam President, as well as the members of the Security Council and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths. I also recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. We are meeting to address the Russists’ war against my country. After one of the lowest periods in the history of the Security Council, the April presidency of the aggressor State inflicted yet another blow on an already compromised principal body of the United Nations. This April alone, the Russian occupiers committed 6,139 war crimes, which led to the death of 207 Ukrainian civilians, including 11 children. On 28 April, Russia again launched a missile strike on a multistorey apartment building, this time in Uman, in the Cherkasy region. As a result, 23 residents were killed, including six children.”
2023-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9321 (2023) · source
“However, one of the signatories to the Budapest Memorandum — the Russian Federation — has failed to fulfil its obligations under it. Now that country is again demonstrating that it perceives nuclear weapons as a tool for threats and intimidation, not a means of deterrence and the prevention of war. It is therefore critically important to ensure that no responsible nations fall for Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling, and to consolidate joint and decisive actions to ensure reliable deterrence and prevent Russia’s further erosion of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation architecture.”
2023-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9300 (2023) · source
“Following previous false claims about dirty bombs, this time Russia simply explored a certain resemblance between the names of components of weapons of mass destruction and conventional munitions that Ukraine is at liberty to use to exercise its right to self-defence under Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. Ukraine has always been a responsible member of the international community. We made an unprecedented contribution to the cause of nuclear disarmament by joining the NPT and signing the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on providing security assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Ukraine abandoned the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.”
2023-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9300 (2023) · source
“Let me also remind the Council that Russia was the only country to block the consensus on the final document of the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in August last year. Last month, Russia announced its decision to suspend its participation in the New START Treaty, one of the pillars of the arms- control architecture. The Kremlin lies to and disregards even those with whom they claim as friends and strategic partners, which speaks volumes about Russia’s readiness to meaningfully and responsibly engage in the de-escalation process and peace efforts. Instead, Russia consolidates its disinformation and creates vague pretexts for nuclear escalation.”
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“It took only four days for Putin to violate another pledge that he recently made with the President of the People’s Republic of China, in the joint statement on deepening comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for the new era, signed on 22 March, which declares that all nuclear-weapon States should refrain from deploying nuclear weapons outside their national territories. To the credit of the Chinese side, it reminded Moscow — in a very sensible manner — that a nuclear war cannot be fought and won and that nuclear proliferation must be prevented. Unlike Russia’s stance, the Chinese position on nuclear weapons is firm and clear.”
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“The announcement we just heard has provided us with yet another solid piece of proof that the papers Putin signs mean nothing to him. Putin prepared for the invasion of Ukraine while signing, in January 2022, the joint statement by the leaders of the five nuclear- weapon States on preventing nuclear war and avoiding arms races. Then, less than two months after Putin committed to the reduction of strategic risks alongside four other leaders, he launched a war that the European continent has not seen since the end of the Second World War.”
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“Nuclear blackmail is one of the tools that Russia has exploited since the very beginning of the invasion. In addition, the shelling and seizure of Ukrainian nuclear facilities have also aggravated the nuclear threat at the global level. Today is day 401 of the full-fledged war, and Russia has demonstrated its failure to prevail on the battlefield. In a desperate attempt to avoid the unavoidable — its military defeat in Ukraine — Russia again resorts to waving its nuclear cudgel. The Kremlin is ready to undermine the entire nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation architecture and to threaten the world with nuclear apocalypse, as one of Putin’s cronies recently said. But the Kremlin is not ready to halt its violations of the Charter of the United Nations and to return to the tenets of international law.”
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