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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 find it preposterous that some politicians invite Ukraine to consider calls for concessions to Moscow, in a country whose Secretary of State, Mr. Henry Kissinger, half a century ago advised his President that, “if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern”. Today some pundits of the same school believe that the tens of thousands of Ukrainians killed by the dictator in Moscow are not a concern. That is the art of diplomacy, is it not? Or is it the art of incitement? Mr. Kissinger’s family literally fled fascism, Nazism and most probably gas chambers in Europe, when it was about to be invaded by Hitler, and now he pushes us to be strangled by “Putler” and someone dares advise us to listen to him?”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“My question is, where will a regime proclaiming three-century-old imperial ambitions as its basic values stop? In identifying himself with the Russian Czar, Putin does more than raise questions concerning his mental state. The dictator publicly speaks of his determination to act and behave as an eighteenth-century ruler. And we preach to him with quotes from the United Nations Charter. Seriously? As Ukraine is bleeding, fighting for its right to exist, there is no place for the dilemma of appeasement versus accountability. Opting for appeasement would only put the darkest times ahead of us. Russia will stop at nothing in its invasion of Ukraine and use any pause to make newly occupied territories its strongholds and gather more cannon fodder to renew its attacks on Ukraine.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The theft of Ukrainian resources from the occupied territories and attempts to annex those territories demonstrate that imperial and neocolonial-style thinking is a guiding principle in the Kremlin’s policy on the international stage. We should not be deceived by Russia’s anti-fascist and anti-Nazi rhetoric. It is just another manifestation of the aggressive mimicry that has extended further, with Russia labelling Ukrainians as neo-Nazis in order to dehumanize them and make them a legitimate target for Russian soldiers. Meanwhile, Putin wants more territories, comparing himself to the eighteenth-century Russian Czar Peter. Speaking about newly independent countries, Putin said “[I]t is also our lot to return”, claiming “basic values” that “form the basis of [Russian] existence”.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“One can find the conclusions of many scholars on the matter, including those of Timothy Snyder, a well-known historian and professor at Yale University, who recently described the criteria of fascism, which today’s Russia meets. It has a cult around a single leader. It has a cult of the dead, organized around the Second World War. It also has a myth of a past golden age of imperial greatness, to be restored by a war of healing violence — the murderous war on Ukraine. Fascist aesthetics are easily traceable in the promotion of the “Z” symbol, the organization of mass rallies, the consolidation of war propaganda and the incitement of hatred towards Ukraine and Ukrainians.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Instead, intoxicated by the illusion of business as usual, the world continued to believe that the most efficient way to bring Russia back onto the track of normalcy was complacency, while Minister Lavrov literally laughed in the face of his Western colleague in Geneva when the word “reset” in the term “reset button” was erroneously translated as “overcharge”. Less than one year later, Russia invaded Georgia. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline deserves a separate chapter in this saga of addictive gas rapprochement with the Kremlin dictator. Those developments have inevitably led Russia to its current standing as an aggressive, fascist State with no limits to its criminal behaviour.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The world also failed to respond adequately to Russia’s aggression against Georgia in 2008. And that time it was not because of a Christmas break — Europe merely went on summer holidays in August — and by the time officials came back to their offices, including in the OSCE, it was already a new reality for many, and they carried on with their business. The attempted annexation of Crimea six years later and the conflict in Donbas are a logical progression of Russia’s strategies aimed at undermining international law and the rules-based order. Those events, too, failed to become a turning point for the world’s relations with Russia, as did Russia’s war crimes in Syria.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“And that is not all — everyone should brace themselves for more. As if to humiliate the Helsinki Final Act, at their meeting held in the Finnish capital in 2019 the Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to return Russia’s voting rights in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. That was incitement to violence — was it not? The clock had been ticking, the imminent full-scale invasion of Ukraine was closer and closer, and yet appeasement remained the script. Two decades before, in 1999 at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) summit held in Istanbul, Russia made a commitment to withdraw its troops from Moldova and Georgia. As always, the Russian commitments turned out to be merely empty promises. Today, 23 years after that summit, Russian troops are still deployed in Transnistria, Moldova.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The city of Grozny was razed to the ground — as many Ukrainian cities have been today — and not without the participation of Akhmad Kadyrov’s thugs. The number of casualties among the civilian population in Chechnya reached tens of thousands, reaching as high as 80,000 to 100,000 according to Alexander Lebed, then Secretary of Russia’s own National Security Council. And what happened in response to Russia’s cruelty and barbarism in Chechnya? After taking a short face-saving pause, the Council of Europe, which was designed as a stronghold if not a temple of human rights, invited Russia to become a member, which it subsequently did. In 1991, at the behest of its, President Russia imposed itself in the Security Council, and five years later another Council — the Council of Europe — invited the blood-soaked Russian regime to join its club.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The meeting on the last day before Christmas Eve (see S/PV.3024) having been adjourned by the President of the Council, Soviet Ambassador Vorontsov, lo and behold, the following meeting (see S/PV.3025) was opened by the very same person but as a representative of another country — the Russian Federation. It was a country that was at that moment absent from the Charter of the United Nations and the list of the Organization’s membership in general. There was no vote in the Security Council. There was no vote in the General Assembly. There was no formal decision of any body — and not because of the Christmas break. President Yeltsin simply notified the United Nations of his decision, and someone accepted it for executive purposes, with no public debate or vote. In December 1994, Russia launched the war in Chechnya.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Russia’s main targets may have changed from time to time, but its focus has always been on democratic nations and nearly every one of its neighbours. That was the case for Mussolini, and it is also the case for Putin. Both dictators hoped that eventually their ideology would spread far beyond Europe and penetrate into America. Unfortunately, the world overlooked that dangerous trend, which can only encourage Russia to consolidate its aggressive propaganda. Moreover, the Kremlin received so much proof over 30 years of the world’s de facto apathy towards Russia’s violations and subsequently of its impunity for them that it was only a matter of time before it launched a full-fledged war. It was an event held in this very Chamber in December 1991 that triggered the sequence of tragic events to follow.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The materials of the Nuremberg trials contain a thorough examination into the genesis of Nazism and its deadly nature. I believe that future trials will provide us with equally comprehensive answers as to how Russia turned into an aggressive and inhumane regime. But let me now remind the Council of some important milestones, including with respect to the incitement to violence. The obsessive desire of Russia’s leadership and army generals with killing and destruction did not appear out of nowhere. Since the 1990s, Russian politicians and media have developed their warmongering rhetoric and hate speech, which are flavoured with imperial sentiments. To paraphrase Benito Mussolini, the press of Russia is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Putin’s envoy follows the example of his boss, Minister Lavrov, who uses the same tactic when claiming that Russia has not invaded Ukraine and that it declared a military operation because it “had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act”. That is indeed quite a confession, and it is now on the record. Aggressive mimicry is a common defensive tactic of criminals. A rather useless tactic, as Putin’s envoy will understand once he takes another seat — on the bench of a future tribunal for Russian war criminals. My statement today will not be brief, owing to the complexity of the issue. The information brought to our attention has again proved that there is no other option for ending this war than to bring the aggressor to account, just as Nazis were brought to account in Nuremberg.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“As I address the members of the Security Council today, as usual, I also recognize the representative of Putin’s regime, occupying the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. Putin’s Ambassador has again taken advantage of that seat to shift responsibility for the war onto everyone but Russia. I have already drawn attention more than once in the Chamber to Russia’s widely used tactic of aggressive mimicry, whereby a predator gains an advantage by presenting itself as a victim. Such a dynamic is akin to victim blaming, whereby a rapist blames the victim for provoking them to commit their crime.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“It is also alarming that Russia has continued its attempts to undermine the work of the Office of the Project Coordinator of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has been instrumental in implementing women and peace and security projects. If Russia decides to break the consensus on the Office, it could close as soon as July. In that regard, we welcome the continued efforts of the European Union, the OSCE and NATO, as partners in the region, to strengthen support for women peacebuilders, human rights defenders, activists and gender-equality advocates. Ukraine also confirms its full commitment to furthering awareness and the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda.”
2022-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9064Resumption1 (2022) · source
“I would like to commend the efforts of Ms. Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and her team in that regard. The practical steps to be taken include opening centres to assist survivors of wartime terror. The first will be opened soon in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund in one of the cities near the front lines. As the Secretary-General pointed out today, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of women and children to flee their country overnight. In general, they remain among the most vulnerable groups in any conflict situation, and Russia’s war on my country is not an exception. It is important to maintain the focus on women and girls in all programmes involving humanitarian and economic assistance, protection from crime and political empowerment.”
2022-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9064Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Russia’s war on Ukraine has made it clear that our second national action plan, covering the period from 2020 to 2025, requires serious updates and adjustments to address the new security threats. Our commitment to implementing resolution 1325 (2000) remains the same, but our capacities have been undermined by Russia’s invasion. We are updating our national action plan against a backdrop of the Russian forces’ destruction of civilian infrastructure and war crimes committed by Russian soldiers against women, particularly through the use of sexual violence as a weapon. An updated draft is expected in August, and we appreciate the assistance of the United Nations in the process. In a memorandum signed by Ukraine and the United Nations on 3 May, we identified key areas of cooperation to be included in the updated action plan.”
2022-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9064Resumption1 (2022) · source
“I recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. The pile of lies spouted by the Russian representative this morning will be used in future trials in which Russian war criminals and their accomplices will be prosecuted. We thank Albania for convening this open debate and all the briefers for their comprehensive presentations. We align ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Canada on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security. The women and peace and security agenda has always been of vital significance for Ukraine. In the circumstances of the Russian aggression, which has been ongoing since 2014, Ukraine adopted a national action plan on women and peace and security and was the first United Nations Member State to do so during a situation of conflict.”
2022-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9064Resumption1 (2022) · source
“Dozens of millions of lives were lost so that we could understand that appeasement and concessions to the aggressor do not work. History tends to repeat itself if its lessons are not learned. I hope that it is not about us or the United Nations. Putin’s Russia must be defeated for the sake of international peace and security; for the sake of the Ukrainian people, who are paying the ultimate price; for the sake of people all over the world, especially those depending on grain supplies from our region, and for the sake of the people of Russia, which should return to the family of democratic nations following its de-Putinization.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“The invasion of 2014 was followed by eight long years of war and the eventual full-scale invasion of 2022, since when millions have fled abroad and a couple of million more have been deported or moved to Russia, where children have been fostered or adopted en masse in violation of international humanitarian rights. Scarcely any other European nation has experienced the deep devastation wrought by the Bolsheviks, Stalin, Hitler and eventually “Putler” within such a short period of time. Most, if not all of it, has been man- made and executed on purpose. The lack of empathy, or the hypocrisy, of some politicians in this context, is appalling and is seen by many as the final nail in the coffin, as Ukrainians might say. Seventy-seven years ago, humankind united in its struggle to destroy evil.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“And that was followed by the Soviet Army’s invasion of western Ukraine in 1939, as agreed between Stalin and Hitler, when hundreds of thousands fled their homes to Europe and the Americas, and thousands were executed if they chose to stay or could not run. That continued with the annihilation launched when the Second World War started and the Soviets were withdrawing, burning everything down and doing everything they could to prevent the advancing Nazi troops from taking advantage of the situation. Next came the withdrawing Nazis, who set fire to everything and destroyed it before the Soviets regained control. Millions were killed during the war in both Nazi and Soviet camps. The Russification of Ukraine followed until it was finally able to re-establish its independence.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“We therefore reiterate that any concessions, as some well-wishers are currently advising, will only pave the way for a new war — with the same scope for violence, and closer to our Western borders. As a nation, Ukraine and its genetic pool have been devastated multiple times in the course of the past 100 years at least, beginning with the Bolshevik invasion and Ukraine’s incorporation into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the first quarter of the twentieth century. That was followed by the genocide ordered by Stalin during the great artificial famine of 1932 and 1933, widely known as the Holodomor, in which as many as 10 million Ukrainians starved to death when the Soviet Army confiscated their crops.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“Russia has never considered local residents to be trustworthy, and its attitude to the population in the part of Donbas that has been occupied since 2014 speaks volumes in that regard. Conscription raids on streets and apartments and the forced mobilization of all men who fail to hide are the sad realities of Donetsk, Luhansk and other cities in the occupied part of Donbas. Ill-equipped and without any means of protection, those men are thrown against the Ukrainian positions on the front lines, serving as cannon fodder and a shield for Russian soldiers. There can be no doubt that the same practices will be used on the population of the territories that have been occupied since February. If they are not liberated, Russia will turn them into new strongholds for renewed attacks.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“When we listen to Putin saying that he will not use trade routes to attack Odesa, we should not forget that he is the same person who told Germany’s Chancellor Scholz and President Macron of France that he would not attack Ukraine, just days before launching a full- scale invasion. The shared international response to Putin’s empty promises must be greater pressure rather than premature and unjustified gratitude. We are continuing our work with the United Nations and other partners to ensure that the maritime routes for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products are functioning. As a first step, Russia has to withdraw its naval forces in the maritime waters around Ukraine and provide security guarantees against attacks on ports and commercial convoys.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“That issue has become even more relevant following Sunday’s missile strike on Kyiv, where four rockets hit the facilities of the Darnytskyi car repair plant. As always, Russia claims it destroyed military hardware, including tanks sent by our allies. In reality, however, the plant was focusing on repairing grain-carrier freight cars, used for railway transfers of grain to Ukrainian seaports. What that shows is that all of Putin’s fairy tales — which he so eloquently tells his rare interlocutors — about his readiness to facilitate Ukrainian wheat exports are far removed from reality.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“The investigation of sexual crimes in the temporarily uncontrolled territories of Ukraine is complicated. The Russian occupiers continue to remove the traces of such crimes by burning the bodies of tortured and raped civilians. We commend the first mission to Ukraine of the members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, which starts tomorrow. The Commission is to visit several locations in Ukraine to obtain first-hand information on alleged human rights violations and abuses, as well as to meet with victims, witnesses and IDPs. Ukraine remains committed to finding solutions to prevent a global food crisis and is ready to work to create the necessary conditions to resume exports from the port of Odesa. The issue is how to make sure that Russia does not abuse the trade route to attack the city itself.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“We call on the United Nations agencies to explore ways and means by which they can contribute more effectively to protecting Ukrainian children affected by armed conflict and facilitating the rapid and safe return to Ukraine of children who have been forcibly displaced or transferred to the Russian Federation. Ukrainian law enforcement, non-governmental organizations and the media continue to record numerous cases of sexual violence committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Complaints about sexual crimes committed by the invaders have been received in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine. According to our Ministry of Internal Affairs, minors and elderly women have been among the victims of Russian rapists. Fatalities have also been registered.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“We strongly condemn the decision by Russia to simplify the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for Ukrainian orphans and children left without parental care, in a gross violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war, which obliges an occupying Power not to change the civil status of children, as well as the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Russia refuses to provide any information to Ukrainian authorities or international organizations about the people who have been forcibly transferred, and we see a real danger that they may become victims of human trafficking or exploitation and abuse.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“Almost 12 million people have become internally displaced persons (IDPs). We thank each and every friend providing shelter for Ukrainians until the Russian forces are pushed out of Ukraine. We remain extremely concerned about the destiny of the Ukrainians who have been forcibly transferred to Russia. As Russia has itself admitted, more than a million Ukrainian citizens have been transferred to various regions of Russia, including more than 234,000 children, several thousand of whom are orphans or deprived of parental care.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“All of Ukraine is bleeding now, especially on the front lines, where the Russian army continues to use the most barbaric and inhumane methods of warfare. In the occupied territories, Russians are consolidating their practices of terror, neo-colonialism and genocide. All and any Ukrainian cities and villages could be targets for Russian rockets, as was the case in Kyiv yesterday. Any war means that the most vulnerable suffer the most — that is, women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is no exception. The savage cruelty of the invaders has turned the lives of millions of Ukrainians into an endless nightmare. As many as 5 million people have been recorded across Europe as individual refugees from Ukraine, most of them women and children, and remain abroad.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“As an aggressor and a violator, that squatter threatens the stability of the entire construct. We need a credible Council and efficient solutions. I also want to recognize the representative of Putin’s regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. It is important that the Russian delegation continues to show up to Security Council meetings on Ukraine. They constitute a form of pre-trial meeting and are valuable because they are on the record, which means that everything that those accomplices to crimes say can and will be used against them in court. Of course, for their own sake, they have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before they speak here, and perhaps they are already doing so.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“Let me start by expressing my gratitude to Special Representative Pramila Patten, as well as Ms. Natalia Karbowska of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund and Ms. Sherrie Rollins Westin of Sesame Workshop, for their comprehensive presentations. I would also like to thank the Albanian presidency for organizing this meeting. We appreciate the commitment to keeping the issue of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine at the top of the Security Council’s agenda. Even if the Council is unable to take effective steps to respond to what is currently the most dangerous threat to international peace and security, it is still important that we are gathered here today. In that regard, I want to reiterate that there is no option other than resolving the problem of Russia’s squatting in the Soviet permanent seat, the sooner the better.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“Today’s standards of Russian diplomacy have gone through the floor, and all masks are off. Russia is the only beneficiary of the Council’s inaction on the issue of its war on Ukraine. At the same time, I doubt that it is in the interest of 14 Security Council members to tolerate the Russian strategy of undermining the Council’s credibility. I urge the Security Council to demonstrate resoluteness in safeguarding this organ and its mandate from destructive Russian practices. I do not apologize for not listening carefully to the drivel of the Russian Ambassador, but I need to break the news to his delegation: scientific evidence still suggests that all modern humans are descendant from African populations — homo sapiens. They spread out from Africa approximately 60,000 years ago, and I am proud to be one of them.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“According to Putin’s op-ed, Russia’s current actions against Ukraine should be considered as an act of aggression, as no one attacked Russia and no single decision was adopted by the Security Council in support of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Were it not so tragic, it could have been funnier and much more deepfake than the deepfake Putin videos on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. In fact, they are much closer to reality than statements made by Putin’s envoy when he speaks in this Chamber. Not long after Putin’s hypocritical op-ed about the supremacy of international law, in March 2014, Putin’s former envoy, the late Mr. Churkin, made an effort, at least, to keep up appearances in the Security Council, trying to find some justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Putin nowadays, one can hardly believe that he is the same person who once wrote in his op-ed for The New York Times, nine years ago, that “[t]he law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not”. He also wrote that “[u]nder current international law, force is permitted only in self- defence or by the decision of the Security Council”. Putin wrote that “[a]nything else is unacceptable under the United Nations Charter and would constitute an act of aggression”. The op-ed appeared in the 11 September 2013 edition and was entitled “A Plea for Caution from Russia”. Nine years ago, Russian diplomatic vocabulary still contained the word “caution”.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Every year on 8 May, the entire world honours, with the slogan “Never Again”, the memory of the victims and those who stopped Nazism 77 years ago. Russia has made 9 May a cornerstone of its own ideology, which is a combination of propaganda war, hatred towards neighbours, militarization and the utmost disregard for agreed rules, norms and values. We are grateful to all Member States and others that co-sponsored the joint statement on the occasion of the seventy-seventh anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. They demonstrated their resolute stance to the cynical attempts to appropriate and exploit the memory of the victory over Nazism and use it for justifying the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Listening to Mr.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“The resolution adopted today in Geneva mandates the commission to conduct a special investigation into war crimes committed by Russian invaders in areas of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy regions. The list includes the arbitrary executions of more than 1,000 civilians and widespread instances of sexual violence, torture and other violations. Ukraine, together with up to 50 partner countries, will ensure accountability for all perpetrators. It is symbolic that one of the Russian rockets launched on 7 May destroyed the museum honouring Ukrainian philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda. In his doctrine, he promoted humanistic ideas. Indeed, the current Russia is too far removed from humanism. The recent sabre-rattling celebration of 9 May served as another illustration of that.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“The Health Minister of Ukraine reported that, as of today, Russian troops have destroyed or damaged approximately 400 health- care facilities. Given the circumstances of the war, the treatment of cancer patients in Ukraine has stopped completely. There are serious problems with access to insulin and antibiotics. The situation in relation to access to medical services in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in the east and south of the country, can only be described as a disaster. There is a shortage of the most basic drugs. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities estimates that Russia’s military attacks against Ukraine are putting the lives of 2.7 million people with disabilities at risk. We welcome the launch of the commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities related to Russia’s war on Ukraine.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“These children’s living conditions and the state of their health remain unknown. We call on UNICEF, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross to demand from Russia immediate and unhindered access to those children, as well as to all persons who have been transferred from the conflict-affected areas of Ukraine to Russia or to Ukrainian territories under temporary Russian control. We also call on the Secretary-General to use all the mechanisms established by the Council to monitor and report on violations against children in conflict. According to the World Health Organization, at least 3,000 people have died in Ukraine during the period of the invasion, owing to lack of access to treatment for chronic diseases.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“As of today, approximately 130 educational institutions have been entirely destroyed and more than 1,500 have been damaged. I reiterate that schools must never be attacked or used for military purposes. The targeting of civilians and civilian objects, including schools, is a violation of international humanitarian law. In violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Russia continues its kidnapping of Ukrainian children. After forcible transfer to Russia, they are illegally adopted by Russian citizens without any of the mandatory procedures envisaged by the legislation of Ukraine being observed. According to official Russian sources, on 7 May, to date, more than 1 million Ukrainians have been transferred to Russia, including 200,000 children. Some 2,000 of them are orphans or those deprived of parental care.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“At least 226 children have been killed and 417 wounded by Russian troops in Ukraine. There is no doubt that actual statistics are much higher, as occupied territory remains a no-go zone for any credible international mechanisms. Every day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine brings us new tragedies and new crimes committed by the Russians. One of the most recent cases occurred in the village of Bilohorivka, in the Luhansk region, on 7 May, following a Russian air strike on a local school — the only building with a shelter. Only 30 civilians out of 90 were rescued. The school, once full of joyful children, was turned by Russian pilots into another mass grave. Last night, Russia carried out an air strike on Novhorod-Siverskyi, destroying another school.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“We call on UNICEF to use all possible means to protect the rights of this child and other children who were separated from their parents by the Russians. Thepresidentialstatement of 6 May(S/PRST/2022/3)) serves as another example. Immediately after the Russian Federation joined the members of the Security Council in recalling the obligation of all Member States to settle their disputes by peaceful means, it fired rockets on Ukraine’s Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhya regions. Russia continues its missile terror on a daily basis, primarily targeting civilian infrastructure. Since 24 February, Russia has fired more than 2,100 missiles on Ukrainian cities and villages. Women and children throughout Ukraine remain the most vulnerable groups subjected to the missile terror of Russia.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“For instance, during the evacuation on 9 May — ironically Mother’s Day — the Russian occupiers separated a four-year-old girl, Alice, from her mother, a medical worker. Only the little child was allowed to leave the occupied territory, while her mother was reportedly detained in a filtration camp. These actions by the Russian forces constitute a gross violation of a child’s right to life and security, guaranteed by the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We demand that Russia immediately and unconditionally release the child’s mother and ensure that she is reunited with her daughter.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“They have to be brought to safe places, where their right to life will be guaranteed. Russian captivity is not a place for the servicemen from the Azovstal steel plant. We are also alarmed that the repressive Russian practice of using filtration camps for Ukrainians fleeing dangerous areas is being consolidated further. Given the inhumane conditions and ill treatment, the word “filtration” can only be considered as a euphemism for the word “concentration”. It is outrageous that Russia has applied these filtration practices to civilians who were evacuated from Azovstal under the facilitation of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Some of them were illegally detained.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“That is the reason why we are extremely concerned about the destiny of the defenders of Azovstal should they fall into the hands of the Russian troops. Even during the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal on 7 May, the Russian forces continued to shell the Ukrainian soldiers. As a result, three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and six were wounded — in violation of all agreed arrangements. Many in Azovstal have been heavily wounded and have no access to the medical treatment they urgently need. We therefore call for the evacuation operation to continue. We call on the Security Council and the Secretary-General to invest further efforts in order to ensure the evacuation of the sick and wounded from the Azovstal area, in accordance with international humanitarian law.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Every day and night, they drop heavy aerial bombs, shell the facilities with heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems. Assault groups of the Russian infantry are attacking non-stop. The defenders of Mariupol have already done the impossible: they have stopped the overwhelming force of the Russian troops for more than three months. Their contribution to the disruption of the Russian blitzkrieg plans cannot be overestimated. For that, Mariupol has paid a heavy price, with the death toll among its residents over these months — around 20,000 — being double the amount killed there by the Nazis in the Second World War. That is the reason why the attackers have shown no restraint in their attempts to finally crush the resistance.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“I recognize the representatives of Putin’s regime, in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union, as possible defendants in a future trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. They should consider this meeting as a pretrial hearing. First of all, I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya and UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi for their briefings. Admiration and pain are the sentiments of all of those who are now watching the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Courageous defenders are holding their positions under full blockade, without any replenishment. Another day, another week, another month — every day and every night — the Russian occupiers have been trying to break the resistance of the Ukrainians in Azovstal.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Victory over the Russist army comes closer by the day, as does the time when Putin’s henchmen will sit on the bench at a trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Punishment is imminent. Milošević will not stay lonely for too long.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“In that regard, the inaction of the Security Council and its ability only to express deep concerns continues to irritate the international community, undermine its authority in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and create an atmosphere of impunity. As it appears, this Chamber has turned from a venue of diplomatic debates into a biological hazard site. There is a trail of blood and a sickening smell of the smouldering bodies of women, men and children that a Russian envoy leaves lingering behind him when entering and leaving this Chamber. The air that we inhale is filled with poisonous spores of turpitude when he drivels torrential lies as his lips begin moving.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“On 4 May, the bodies of two young men, aged 22 and 23, were exhumed in the village of Rudnya-Talska in the Kyiv region. On 25 February, the Russian invaders shot at a car with them inside. However, it was not enough for the so- called Russian soldiers to kill innocent civilians. They decided to run the car over with heavy equipment, while the two men were inside. That is insane. That is inhumane. While we are in this meeting, the Russian terrorist practice of shelling Ukrainian cities throughout the entire country with long-range missiles continues. The Secretary-General had a chance to witness that practice last Thursday during his visit to Kyiv. However, there was no strong reaction from the Security Council regarding such deliberate attacks.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“Such attacks are absolutely unacceptable. Lavrov could not help revealing the deep-rooted anti-Semitism of Russia’s elites. It demonstrates to the world that Putin’s Russia is purposefully cultivating Russian supremacy and hatred of other peoples. Russia is already too deeply bogged down in uttering nonsense aimed at justifying its barbaric aggression against Ukraine. In fact, the Russian Foreign Minister questioned the existence of not only the Ukrainian nation, but also the Holocaust. Lavrov deliberately insulted the memory of millions of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War. At this point, I would like to bring the Security Council’s attention to one of the most recent examples of Russian atrocities in Ukraine.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source