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  1. “Many people have written to me since my statement, asking me to please tell the Security Council that no one is in fear of an imminent Russian invasion, except for those people who have been inflicting violence on Ukraine into an eighth year now. They will leave Ukraine clinging to American aircraft. The rest of them will take it in stride — because that was precisely the reason behind the actions of the collective West in the Maidan and their coup d’état. That was the game: to throw in troops of the current Kyiv regime into Donetsk and Luhansk, get a response and then play a game with sanctions. But we will see who has the most to lose from sanctions. The meeting rose at 1.05 p.m.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  2. “Fine — in that case, either compel the puppets from the Kyiv regime to implement them or stop saying that there is no alternative to them.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  3. “Meanwhile, on the territory controlled by Kyiv, not a single child has been killed, and buildings are still standing. That happens only in the unrecognized republics. I have visited them personally. I am describing it first-hand, because I travelled down the entire contact line and I saw how peaceful civilians — unprotected, vulnerable people — are being killed. The people who did not manage to leave are largely the elderly, women with children and persons with disabilities. Those who could leave left the area a long time ago. Those long-suffering people — 100,000 of them — are hostages there. The whole of Europe is, for the eighth consecutive year, duplicitously and bloodthirstily watching the suffering of those people while claiming that there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  4. “It is being used as a chessboard, and the people of Ukraine and those of the unrecognized republics are being used as pawns in geopolitical games. There is nothing else that can be said here, and I am sure that Council members themselves are well aware of that. I am glad that I had the opportunity to say that to members’ faces. And I believe that they are allowing this war to happen. The events that occurred today in the republics — shelling along the entire contact line — ultimately convinced me in that regard. For almost eight years now, the Kyiv regime has been shelling 100,000 people using heavy artillery. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has so-called observers, but the people in the territories call them “blind observers” because they seem to be blind to that fact and have not reacted at all.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  5. “I am certain of it because the West’s real goal, despite all the peace-loving speeches I have heard, including in this Chamber, is to turn Kyiv against the republics and drag Russia into this war. There is absolutely no explanation for the Western hysteria about Russia being about to invade — I heard President Biden say that just now, while we have been having this meeting. The West’s one and only goal is to incite war. If that were not the case, then the puppet Government of Ukraine would have been compelled to implement the Minsk agreements a long time ago. Since that has not happened, there is one explanation to make clear: the West wants a war with Russia, and it wants that war to take place on Ukraine’s territory.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  6. “One of the previous speakers said that, allegedly, despite the efforts of Germany and France, the Kyiv regime does not want to comply with the Minsk agreements. I am convinced that the West is allowing the Kyiv regime to get away with non-compliance. If that were not the case, all of the Minsk agreements would have been implemented a long time ago. There is no use in stating that Kyiv is an independent entity or that Ukraine is independent. It is a colony of a collective West where everything is decided by external parties who staged the Maidan and the coup d’état, plunging my country into slavery. Those same people are obstructing the implementation of the Minsk agreements and will continue to do so.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  7. “Where was the difficulty in providing special status in the past five years? They are not going to provide it because any form of dissent in Ukraine is being quashed. Those in Ukraine who oppose the Maidan, a coup d’état or war itself are considered enemies of the people. They have no right to take the floor and make their voices heard anywhere at all. They have no political parties; they have no civil society associations. They are deprived of the right to vote in their own country. They do not have that right at all. In the light of that, how can one expect that Kyiv will negotiate with Luhansk and Donetsk? I am sure that Council members understand that that will never, ever happen.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  8. “When I went to Donbas personally to meet one of the field commanders, the late Alexei Mozgovoi, in order to pick up a detainee, a soldier from the Ukrainian armed forces, my name was listed on the “Peacemaker” website, along with the names of a huge number of people guilty of opposing the Maidan, opposing a coup d’état or opposing NATO and Europe. Am I really meant to believe that those people who prosecute ordinary people because they liked something on social media, for example, the State Emblem of the Soviet Union , which is one of the recent cases — people who cut off all opposition channels and are persecuting all opposition politics — are the same people who will engage in negotiations with Donetsk and Luhansk? It is very clear that, in principle, that is impossible. It is like matter and anti-matter: they annihilate one other.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  9. “They do not wish to have conversations with civil society even within Ukraine. People who do not want to go to Europe or join NATO, who are against the coup d’état and who want to live in peace and friendship in Russia and other countries — not only are those people not politically represented within Ukrainian politics, but they are also being criminally prosecuted. I am a criminal lawyer. All Ruslan Kotsaba did was post a video on YouTube saying that he was in favour of peace and against war in Donbas. He has been on trial since 2015, accused of high treason.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source

  10. “I listened very carefully to everything that the briefers who spoke before me said. I would like to say to the members of the Security Council that I am completely certain that they know very well that the authorities in Kyiv absolutely never had the intention of implementing the first package of the Minsk agreement and, to an even lesser degree, the subsequent Minsk package of measures agreement. This simply gives pause to say that, yes, we will implement that; in the meantime, the West will provide us with weapons and strengthen our armed forces; and we hope that at some point in the future we will be able to recover the rebellious republics by force. \ As Zelenskyy said only recently, they do not only not want to talk to the republics. He said that he sees no reason to have dialogue with Donetsk or Luhansk.”

    2022-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8968 (2022) · source