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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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“Ukraine requested today’s meeting following the latest statement by the Russian Federation regarding its intent to station tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus — which is a non-nuclear-weapon State according to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). That is yet another provocative step by Putin’s criminal regime that undermines the basic principles of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation architecture and the international security system as a whole. Such an intention inevitably causes particular concern for the entire international community, with Russia delivering such statements against the backdrop of its unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.”
2023-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9300 (2023) · source
“That should include stepping up pressure on the Russian Federation to abandon its aggressive course. Until that happens, Ukraine will continue to defend itself, the principles of the Charter and the rules-based order.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“We still do not know the exact number of victims and Russia did everything it could to mop up the traces of its crime as soon as Mariupol was occupied. Every day of the war and every day of the Russian presence in Ukraine multiplies the suffering of the Ukrainian people. The war must be brought to an end, and it must be followed by accountability for the aggressor. We appreciate the international community’s strong stance in striving for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on the principles of the Charter. Ukraine is ready to implement that approach, which all peace efforts and proposals should be based on. We urge Member States to contribute to the implementation of General Assembly resolution ES-11/6, adopted at its emergency special session on 23 February.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Today more than 30 countries and the European Union joined the “Grain from Ukraine” humanitarian programme launched by President Zelenskyy to help the poorest countries of the world with food. The programme raised almost $200 million and sent more than 140,000 tons of Ukrainian grain to countries suffering from hunger. We call on countries around the world wishing to make their contribution to global food security to join that initiative. Yesterday Ukraine paid tribute to the victims of one of the most horrendous Russian war crimes. A year ago, Russian aerial bombing destroyed a theatre in Mariupol — a building that was being used as a shelter and was clearly identified with a sign that read “Children”.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“For example, only 149 inspections were carried out in February despite the fact that 296 inspections had been planned for that month. In addition, as a result of such actions, there are continuous queues of vessels — between 120 and 140 vessels — and Ukrainian ports face the problem of a shortage of new vessels for loading. Today, 86 vessels that are due to be sent for loading are still awaiting inspection in Turkish territorial waters. The Black Sea Grain Initiative should be renewed after it expires on 18 March for at least 120 days, as is foreseen, or for an unlimited period. Its coverage should be expanded to Ukrainian ports in the Mykolayiv region.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Even under those extraordinary circumstances, Ukraine has fulfilled its obligations under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which alleviates the food crisis in the world and prevents many new crises from emerging. Since 1 August, 814 vessels have exported 24.4 million tons of Ukrainian food from the ports of Odesa to Asia, Europe and Africa within the framework of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. That volume could have been significantly higher if Russia had not had a policy of delaying the inspection of vessels. Owing to the shortages in terms of the new fleet and the queue in the territorial waters of Türkiye, the export of foodstuffs via the grain corridor does not exceed 3.4 million tons per month, despite Ukraine’s ability to give the world 6 million tons per month of its agricultural products.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The increasing level of land- mine contamination in Ukraine constitutes another grave threat to its people. Russia’s war of aggression has turned Ukraine into one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world. In total, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the territory of Ukraine that is considered to be contaminated is about 174,000 square kilometres — or 30 per cent of the entire territory of our country. The Russian forces in Ukraine widely use anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions, planting mines on civilian roads, pathways, residential areas and agricultural fields. Nearly 50,000 square kilometres of agricultural land are currently unsuitable for use due to mines, explosive hazards and armed hostilities.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“That step testifies once again that the process of ensuring justice is proceeding, and sooner or later it will end with Putin, Lvova-Belova and other war criminals in the dock. Russia’s war has taken a terrible human toll, leaving tens of thousands of civilians killed, injured or maimed. The tactics of siege and scorched earth employed by Russia have resulted in the destruction of some 59,000 residential buildings, 436 hospitals and more than 2,200 educational institutions. Those numbers do not include the temporarily occupied areas, in which the real level of destruction is much higher. As Russia’s attacks continue to mount, 17.6 million Ukrainians — about 40 per cent of the population — remain in dire need of humanitarian assistance.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Witnesses told the Commission that many of the smaller children transferred have not been able to establish contact with their families and might, as a consequence, lose contact with them indefinitely”. We welcome the fact that today the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two individuals who are allegedly responsible for the war crimes of the unlawful deportation of population (children) and the unlawful transfer of population (children) from the occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. There are reasonable grounds to believe that those persons bear individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes. Their names are Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Maria Lvova-Belova, so-called Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Family members, including children, were sometimes forced to watch perpetrators rape their loved ones.” The United Nations also established the following fact: “Detention, interrogation, torture, or ill- treatment often preceded execution. Some victims were found with hands or feet tied. According to medical records and photographs, the most common method of killing was a gunshot to the head at close range.” Highlighting the issue of forced transfers and deportations of children, the Commission stated that “the onus to trace and find parents or family members fell primarily on the children. Parents and relatives encountered considerable logistical, financial and security challenges in retrieving their children. In some cases, it took weeks or months for families to be reunited.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Let me cite just a few examples of the Commission’s findings, and let me remind everyone here — and those who listen to us — that these are not our Government’s findings. They are the findings of the United Nations and include the following: “Rapes were committed at gunpoint, with extreme brutality and with acts of torture, such as beatings and strangling. Perpetrators at times threatened to kill the victim or her family, if she resisted. In some cases, more than one soldier raped the same victim, or rape of the same victim was committed several times. In one incident, the victim was pregnant and begged, in vain, the soldiers to spare her; she had a miscarriage a few days later. Perpetrators also, in some instances, executed or tortured husbands and other male relatives.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Russia continues to ignore the will of the General Assembly as expressed in resolution ES-11/6, entitled “Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine”. Russia rejects the peace plan formula offered by the President of Ukraine, which follows the same logic as resolution ES-11/6. Instead, Russia persists with its warmongering rhetoric and, through Putin’s spokesperson, threatens that it will continue to achieve its goals and that “now it is possible only by military means”. The report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, which was circulated yesterday, provides us with a shocking record of crimes that might seem unbelievable in the twenty-first century.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“It was the fifteenth massive missile strike since October 2022, when the destruction of civilian infrastructure, in particular energy facilities, was publicly declared by Russia as a method of warfare. As a result of the missile terror, which peaked in the winter season, for the time being Ukraine has lost 44 per cent of its nuclear generation, 75 per cent of its thermal power plant capacity and 33 per cent of its combined heat and power plants. However, Russia has failed to bring Ukraine to its knees by terrorizing it with missiles. It is also failing on the battlefield, as it burns through more and more regular military units and Wagner Group mercenaries near the town of Bahkmut. The irrational enmity towards Ukraine and Ukrainians keeps the peace efforts in a stalemate.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“We also appreciate the fact that the Secretary- General, while visiting Kyiv on 8 March, clearly confirmed the United Nations commitment to working hard to mitigate the impact of the war until a just peace can be attained. According to the Secretary- General, a just peace would mean that the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine must be upheld within its internationally recognized borders, established at independence in 1991. Should it be a surprise that Russia responded to that visit in the same way that it did on previous occasions when the Secretary-General was in Kyiv? That is, with missile shelling. Eighty-one missiles of various types were immediately launched to kill Ukrainians and destroy civilian infrastructure upon the visit of the Secretary-General.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“I commend the Security Council for upholding multiple General Assembly resolutions on Ukraine’s territorial integrity by not allowing the Russian citizen — and so-called ombudsperson of a part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region that Russia tried to annex — to address the Council. We thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his briefing, which has once again highlighted the devastating humanitarian impact of the Russian aggression. We commend United Nations efforts for a resolute humanitarian response in my country. United Nations-led operations provide a lifeline for millions of Ukrainians affected by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The truth is that Putin has once and for all proved to be impossible to negotiate with. Russia’s consistent undermining and final killing of the Minsk agreements make that crystal clear. Putin’s decision to launch the full-scale invasion has become the wooden stake that that vampire has suicidally driven through himself. We therefore call on healthy forces in Russia, if there are any, to come to their senses and to force Putin to implement the demands of the General Assembly to immediately cease the use of force and withdraw Russian military forces from Ukraine. The dictator should give up and recede into the past.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“The last time that Putin’s envoy looked as nervous and as desperate in the Council as he looked today, Russia launched the invasion a few days later. Those are just a few examples of how, as I said, Russia violated the agreements. The destructive approach by Russia was reaffirmed just yesterday by Vladislav Surkov, Putin’s major aide at the time of the signing of the Minsk agreements, who acknowledged that, while working on the Minsk agreements, he had proceeded from the understanding that they should not be implemented. I am surprised that Moscow does not have control over Surkov at this moment, right on the eve of this meeting. However, I am not surprised that, as usual, the Russian representative is so generously manipulating quotes from foreign officials. It is time to see the look in his eye. It is time to acknowledge the truth.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“Paragraph 9 of the Minsk memorandum, signed by Russia on 19 September 2014, and which stated that “all foreign military formations and military equipment, as well as militants and mercenaries, are to exit the territory of Ukraine under OSCE monitoring”, was never implemented by Russia. Finally, a week after the third Minsk document, a package of measures, was signed on 12 February 2015, the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve sustained a full-fledged offensive and was occupied by regular Russian troops and their proxies. Those are just a few examples of how Russia violated the agreements almost immediately after signing them, and all those violations paved the way for Putin’s final decision to invade Ukraine. Ambassador Nebenzia has left the meeting, but let me share my impression of him here today.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“I even wondered in this very Chamber three years ago (see S/PV.8726) whether it would have made any difference if in 2015 the Council had had legal grounds to adopt a mandatory document under Chapter VII. If the document had had a different legal nature, would that have been a compelling enough reason for the Russian Federation to implement it? Let us not forget that the entire history of the Minsk agreements after the signing of the first documents, in September 2014, was a long list of violations and disregard by Moscow of its own commitments. Paragraph 4 of the Minsk protocol of 5 September 2014, which envisaged the “establishment of a security area in the border regions of Ukraine and the Russian Federation”, was never implemented by Russia.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“We are in the twelfth month of Russia’s invasion, and ironically, it reminds me of the lines of one of Russia’s most famous poets, Alexandr Blok, who, before he became disillusioned with the Bolshevik putsch, wrote a poem called, ironically, “The Twelve”, part of which in Russian reads, (spoke in Russian) “To the grief of every bourgeois We will fan a worldwide conflagration, A conflagration drenched in blood” (spoke in English) The attitude and toxic language we are seeing from the Russian Ambassador with respect to practically every member of the Council is reminiscent of Blok’s lines. We have always said that although it was not adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, resolution 2202 (2015) was a very important message from the Council asking all parties, including Russia, to implement the Minsk agreements.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“I remember Mr. Sajdik very well from when I worked in Kyiv. I was in many meetings with him, and I can assure the members of the Security Council that he did his best to promote the fullest possible implementation of the Minsk agreements. And I sincerely regret that the representative of Russia used such thuggish language to attack him on the issue. It does not surprise me.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“At a meeting held on 11 February 2021 (see S/2021/159), the representative of Russia went even further in his attempts to create a parallel reality, literally saying that “Ukraine occupied Ukraine”. Yet every year, the Russian delegation assured us of Moscow’s commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict on the basis of the Minsk agreements. Let me also refresh the Council’s memory and remind everyone of what Russia’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs said about the Minsk agreements at the Council’s meeting exactly a year ago, on 17 February 2022: “[T] here is no alternative to that momentous document for Ukraine” (S/PV.8968, p.10). And four days later, on 21 February 2022, Russia killed the Minsk agreements, brutally and deliberately, when Putin recognized the so-called independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“I recognize the remaining representatives of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union, and I regret that their delegation is still allowed to spam the Security Council with initiatives such as today’s meeting. It had been their practice to call Council meetings on the anniversaries of resolution 2202 (2015), adopted on 17 February 2015. However, it has never been their aim to discuss in good faith the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Instead, they opt to disseminate their propaganda narratives — unchangeable mantras throughout the years stating that Russia was not a party to the agreements and that their implementation was the responsibility of Ukraine alone.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“Waters should keep strumming his guitar. It suits him better than lecturing the Security Council on how to do its job. There should be no flying pigs here, even if Putin, whom Mr. Waters called the new Hitler, were to be put on them. We had a taste of pop culture today from the Russian delegation, but how about preparing something more classic for the Security Council? How about Swan Lake, on 17 February, the full-length four-act, three-hour expanse, which Russians are so accustomed to enduring when their dictator dies? We have seen it with Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and we know the name of the next one. The meeting rose at 11.55 a.m.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“They have been used as nothing more than cannon fodder.” Of course, who gives a monkey’s about tens of thousands of Buryats, Tuvans, Mordvins and other ethnic soldiers sent by Russia’s Hitler to the front as cannon fodder from Putin’s farm? Pigs might fly, Mr. Waters. I am not sure if they can fly with Hitler’s and Putin’s names at the concert in Moscow, even with swastikas and a hammer and sickle, and especially if you once again put on a Nazi-like long leather jacket, as you have done in your previous concerts. Let me finish with a quote from the last lines of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Remember when, standing outside the farmhouse where pigs and men were drinking together, the creatures “looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Mr.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“He can totally ignore the crime of aggression; the opinion of 143 members of the General Assembly; numerous reports by United Nations agencies, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, Governments and citizens; and he can go and entertain the crowd in Moscow because the dictator there, whom Mr. Waters identified as a new Hitler, is not committing the genocide of the indigenous people of Russia. It is no wonder that in a video address in September, a former President of Mongolia, President Elbegdorj, called on Putin to stop the war. “I know that since the start of this bloody war,”, he said, “it is ethnic minorities who live in Russia have suffered the most”. He added, “The Buryat Mongols, Tuvan Mongols and Kalmyk Mongols have suffered a lot.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“Waters who said that he would play in Moscow “given that Moscow does not run an apartheid State based on the genocide of the indigenous inhabitants”? Mr. Waters knows so little, but he seems to know it so fluently. In 1979, Pink Floyd came up with the song “Another Brick in the Wall”. The same year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. After the invasion was condemned by Pink Floyd, the band was banned in the Soviet Union. It is ironic, if not hypocritical, that Mr. Waters now attempts to whitewash another invasion. How sad for his former fans to see him accepting the role of just another brick in the wall — the wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda. This pop star can easily ignore the alleged episodes of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“I am surprised that he has not inflated a giant pig-shaped balloon in the Security Council Chamber today, as was the case at many of his shows in the past. I ask Mr. Waters what it could have been this time: pigs with swastikas and a hammer and sickle, as at some of his performances, decried for their antisemitism? Or probably the faces of Putin and Hitler? After all, was it not Mr. Waters who called Vladimir Putin “the new Hitler” in one of his interviews in September last year? Let me make it clear. On 30 September 2022, in an interview with Chris Hedges, Mr. Waters asked: “How can we stop this war?” He himself replied: “Well, obviously, you have to talk to Vladimir Putin, who is the new Hitler”. Earlier this month, was it not Mr.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“Waters himself who said: “The method for taking over the State and for it becoming a totalitarian police State is always the same, and it is always the identification of the other as the enemy.” When I hear the Russian representative speaking about yet another newly invented version of the goals of the so-called special military operation to be accomplished, all I can tell him is that pigs might fly. I hope he understands what that means in English. I am sure that Mr. Waters, an Englishman, does, even if he hated every second of school, apart from games. In Mr. Waters’s own words, his “grammar school was pretty dreadful”. The original version of the phrase was “pigs in the air with their tails forward”.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“Let me provide another quote: “I would rather have [my country] resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour.” It is not me who was the first one to say that; it was Mahatma Gandhi, who said that about India. When people quote, and cherry-pick from, Gandhi, they should therefore be very careful. Today it is a reply to those who do not mind seeing an unarmed Ukraine torn to pieces, helpless and dishonoured. We hear again and again that Russia is surrounded by enemies. That could be dismissed as mere paranoia if it was not a clear sign of the narrative of a totalitarian State. Or was it not Mr.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“The guru of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi, said: “[A]bstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.” Let me ask those who make such calls, as well as all those present here, if they are ready and fit to show that power to punish the evildoer. If the Security Council remains immobilized by the evildoer and cannot punish him, let us and all responsible nations do that work for the Council and for our common good, as the first lines of the Charter of the United Nations read, “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“The resolute contribution of all responsible nations to restoring respect for the principles of the Charter of the United Nations will be the only way to ensure a comprehensive, just and lasting peace. It is a war of choice. “Non-violence is infinitely superior to violence”, said Gandhi on many occasions. However, Putin has chosen violence. He has also emasculated his nation and continues to treat his country as an animal farm to produce more and more cannon fodder. Let me now respond to those who call for a stop to war at any cost, including at the cost of Ukraine’s territory and forgiveness for the lost Ukrainian lives and lands.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“Meanwhile, let me quote from Article 51: “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.” The Security Council still tolerates the presence of war criminals in the Soviet seat. It is therefore the problem of the Council itself that the second part of Article 51, envisaging the Council’s authority and responsibility “to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security”, cannot be, and has not yet been, implemented.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“Military defeat is imminent if the Russian criminal regime does not implement the demands of the General Assembly and the International Court of Justice and does not withdraw its troops from the territory of Ukraine within our internationally recognized borders. The Charter of the United Nations and international law will also be the framework for our further work to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the crime of aggression.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“As one novelist said: “some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go”. I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime occupying the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. In fact, he has just left. I am grateful to Under-Secretary-General Nakamitsu for her comprehensive briefing. I would also like to thank our partners, who made it clear that restoring respect for the Charter of the United Nations is the only viable option to deal with the ongoing aggression, and that its principles shall serve as the only basis both for our actions to exercise the inherent right to self-defence under Article 51 of the Charter and for the post-war settlement following the military defeat of Russia on the territory of Ukraine.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“As we approach the anniversary of Russia’s launch of a full-fledged war that plunged the centre of the European continent into violence, bloodshed and devastation, the needs and the suffering of people on the ground should be our primary focus. To that end, on 22 February Ukraine, together with more than 30 Member States, will initiate a high-level event addressing the gross human rights violations resulting from the aggression against Ukraine. We invite members to take part in it and to take a resolute stance on the urgent need to end the Russian aggression. We urge Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine and halt the enormous human suffering in my country and abroad.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“The Ukrainian authorities have identified 16,011 children forcibly deported to date. Ukraine expects the United Nations to pay more attention to the issue and calls for an all-for- all prisoner-of-war exchange, as well as for the release of all adults and children deported to Russia from the occupied parts of Ukraine. That is one of the elements of the 10-point peace plan that Ukraine has proposed to ensure a peaceful resolution to the conflict based on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. It is a comprehensive plan aimed at laying a solid foundation for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace. We appreciate the positive reflections that we have heard from many members on the plan and reiterate our hopes for their active engagement in order to bring back peace and restore respect for the Charter.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“Ukraine’s tireless efforts have enabled 1,762 people to return home from Russian captivity, with the most recent exchange taking place on Saturday. However, Russia is still holding thousands of Ukrainians captive in terrible conditions. The Russian occupation authorities have prevented United Nations officials from visiting Ukrainian prisoners of war, while the United Nations has documented facts of torture, poor treatment and a lack of food, water, health care and sanitation at the sites where they are held, as well as an absence of contact with their families. Another serious threat for the population in the occupied territories of Ukraine continues to be their deportation to remote regions of Russia, as well as the forced adoption of Ukrainian children.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“It is also regular practice for Russian inspectors to refuse to work on various pretexts while all the other parties are ready to perform their duties. As of 1 February, due to impediments from the Russian side, 114 vessels were awaiting inspection in Türkiye’s territorial waters, and the number of departures from ports remains critically low, at no more than three vessels per day. Those actions have resulted in a drop in exports of almost 30 per cent compared to the previous month. The solution to the problem is quite simple — we just have to increase the number of inspection groups and inspections per day. I should point out that in November of last year, the United Nations and Türkiye were able to carry out 86 inspections in just two days.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“In response to that mockery, let me reiterate that not a single warship has blocked the flow of Russian exports. Not a single missile has targeted Russian seaports. However, those problems are still a reality for Ukraine, and even the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a temporary and very limited solution for both Ukraine and those reliant on Ukrainian food exports, is facing serious impediments from the Russian side. In particular, we are concerned about the fact that Russia has continued to hamper the inspection procedures. Immediately after the exports of Ukrainian foodstuffs began to increase, Russia reduced the number of inspection teams from five to three and artificially increased the length of each inspection.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“In its attack on my country, Russia has used, and continues to use, the whole spectrum of prohibited mines, including a battalion with POM-3 mines, which have seismic sensors and are highly dangerous for civilians. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service and other structures risk their lives on a daily basis carrying out demining operations in the liberated territories. However, the main part of that work is still ahead of us and will begin after the complete withdrawal of Russia’s troops from Ukraine. By turning fertile Ukrainian soil into minefields, Russia further aggravates the global food crisis already fuelled by its war against Ukraine. Russia regularly resorts to cynical attempts to minimize the detrimental impact of its aggression on global food security and pose as a damaged party.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“The situation in the east, where the violent hostilities are at their height, is definitely even worse. However, the full picture will only be seen after liberation. Ukraine, in exercising its right to self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, is fully implementing its international obligations, while the Russian occupants are committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Ukrainian people. I would like to remind the Security Council that, according to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction — the Ottawa Convention — which Ukraine has been a party to since 2005, we have destroyed 3 million anti-personnel mines, including stockpiles of extremely hazardous POM-2 mines.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“Over the span of one year, the sirens sounded for an equivalent of 55 days in the Kharkiv region; 42 days in the Donetsk and the Zaporizhzhya regions; 37 days in the Dnipro region; and 27 days in Kyiv. Let me explain that. As soon as an air-raid siren is activated, schools, public services and businesses have to cease their operations and people must go to the closest shelters. The detrimental impact that has on both people’s activities and their mental health can hardly be overestimated. According to preliminary estimates by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Russia’s war of aggression has already resulted in the contamination of about 30 per cent of the country’s territory. While retreating in the north and south, the Russian forces left Ukraine’s territories heavily mined, including fields, roads, bridges and residential areas.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“All those attacks left dozens of civilians killed and injured. As of now, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have registered the damage or destruction of 77,463 civilian infrastructure facilities. More than 2.4 million Ukrainians have to live in damaged or destroyed housing. Russia’s missile and drone terror remains a major threat to the civilian population throughout Ukraine. On 26 January, another massive attack with 55 air- and sea-based missiles killed 11 people and injured 11 more. Even if not followed by a strike, every single missile alert is accompanied by air-raid sirens, which disrupt the normal life of the civilian population throughout the country. In 2022, a total of 14,870 sirens sounded across Ukraine.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“At the previous meeting on this topic (see S/PV.9243), we briefed the Security Council on the outcomes of a barbaric Russian missile attack that killed 46 people in their apartments in Dnipro on 17 January. What is most outrageous is that the tragedy in Dnipro is not an isolated incident, but rather part of the Russian army’s deliberate strategy of targeting the civilian population in Ukraine. A number of new shellings of residential buildings have been registered in recent weeks. On 29 January, a Russian missile hit a residential building in the central part of Kharkiv. On the same day, Russian artillery shelled a local hospital and residential areas Kherson. On 1 and 2 February, Russian missiles targeted a multi-story residential building and several private houses in Kramatorsk. On 3 February, the same thing happened in Donetsk.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“I express our sincere condolences to the people of Türkiye and in the region and to the friends and families of the victims of this morning’s earthquake. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time. We are ready to provide the necessary assistance to help them overcome the consequences of that disaster. I also recognize the presence of Putin’s regime, or rather what is left of him, in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union — an acolyte of two Josephs, Stalin and Goebbels, who never let truth interrupt their endless flow and prolixity of lies. We appreciate the convening of today’s meeting, given the fact that civilians, particularly women and children, remain the most vulnerable to Russia’s inhumane war against Ukraine.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“I would like to thank all members who expressed their sympathy for the victims of the deadly Russian attack in Dnipro and pointed out the need to use the Security Council to address real threats to regional and international peace and security — threats that take the lives of innocent people every day and night across the whole of Ukraine and in many other parts of the world. Their human rights, starting the with right to life, must be protected. In that regard, I reiterate the call to return to the practice of discussing human rights issues in the Security Council and to organize, in the coming months if not weeks, a full-fledged Council meeting to address the implications of the Russian war of aggression on the human rights situation in Ukraine and the place and role of human rights in the work of the Council.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“Unfortunately, so far, Ukraine does not have in its possession any means capable of shooting down such types of missiles. It speaks volumes that today, on the second day of mourning in Dnipro, Putin has submitted a draft to the Russian Parliament to denounce a number of European conventions, including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as well as the European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism — today, on the anniversary of the first meeting of the Security Council. Indeed, if they have opted for being a terrorist who kills innocent people in their homes, why should they care about maintaining any link, even a symbolic one, with international democratic instruments.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“As recounted by her relatives, she was not even able to cry out for help because she has been deaf since childhood. We kept a little hope at the moment of her rescue that her husband and 1-year-old son could also be found alive. Unfortunately, the Russian missile left no room for a miracle. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, it was a Kh- 22 missile fired from a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber. This type of powerful missile, with a 950-kilogramme warhead, was designed to hit aircraft carrier groups at sea. They are less accurate than most modern missiles, and their use against densely populated residential areas is a clear war crime. A missile of the same type was used by the Russian army to strike the city of Kremenchuk on 27 June 2022, hitting a shopping mall and killing at least 20 people.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“The deadly nature of the Kremlin regime was again manifested last Saturday with a new round of Russian missiles launched to kill Ukrainians and destroy our critical infrastructure — by the way, despite the important Orthodox holiday that many Ukrainians marked that day. The most horrendous part of that strike — against a multi-story residential building in Dnipro — killed at least 45 people, including six children, and wounded 79. We applaud the courage and commitment of the professional rescue teams and numerous volunteers who worked onsite 24/7 to save everyone still alive under the debris. Members might see the heartbreaking pictures of a young female victim, Kateryna, who was saved after 20 hours under the rubble in freezing-cold temperatures.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source