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Nebenzia

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“In conclusion, I would like to express my wish for the brotherly people of Ukraine to finally gain freedom and the opportunity to build a society that respects fundamental human rights and national identity and lives in peace with its neighbours. That hour is already close, despite all the efforts of the Kyiv regime and its patrons.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“In order to assess the degree of that deep Russophobic degradation, I would like to once again quote the words said the other day by the Ukrainian Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Petro Vrublevskyi, after the murder of Daria Dugina. He openly declared: “We are trying to kill as many of them as possible. The more Russians we kill now, the fewer our children will have to kill. That is all.” That was said by the Ambassador of a country in which those same Russians not only live, but make up a very significant part of the population. Does such a country and such an inhumane regime have a future? Our Western colleagues can prolong its agony, but they cannot prevent its fiasco.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Throughout Zelenskyy’s rule, and especially since 24 February, the opposition has been completely eliminated in the country, dissent has been suppressed and opposition media have been shut down. People are being persecuted, arrested and imprisoned just for reading Russian-language news and watching Russian television channels. And now, in accordance with the new law on collaboration, they are also being imprisoned for accepting humanitarian assistance from Russia. Ukraine has fully transformed into a backwards, ruthless, anti-Russia country and is confidently moving towards complete ideological and political bankruptcy.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Over these years, robust mechanisms for the external governance of Ukraine have been formed, which are visible to the naked eye. We know that at all levels of Government, in all key departments of that country, there are Western advisers without whose consent no major decision is made. Suffice it to recall how, in 2014, the notorious Victoria Nuland resolved issues concerning the formation of the Ukrainian Government by phone with the American Ambassador in Kyiv, or that the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, boasted that he had used blatant blackmail to remove the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. If that is independence, then what is dependence? And is there anything for Ukrainians to celebrate today?”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“We emphasize that the extension of the grain deal, the term of which is 120 days from the date of its signing, would be facilitated by tangible results for Russian foreign trade operators, equivalent to what we see for Ukrainian exports. So far, there are significant reserves in that part of the grain deal. It is no secret that our Western colleagues who requested today’s meeting resolved to have it coincide with Ukraine’s Independence Day. Much has been said about that today. A number of our colleagues directly pointed to Russia as a threat to Ukrainian independence. We do not agree with that. Eight years after the launch of the Maidan project, it has become clear that the main, and in fact the only, threat to Ukraine’s independence is the current Government in Kyiv.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“The main reason is the Western countries’ own economic miscalculations and the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions, which we have spoken about repeatedly in this Chamber. It was the sanctions that caused the breakdown of logistical and financial chains, which provoked a sharp decline in market supplies. Excuses about the supposedly targeted nature of the unilateral measures cannot fill hungry people’s stomachs. We urge all those involved to take the package nature of the Black Sea initiative seriously and not to postpone resolving the financial and logistical problems that prevent the export of Russian food and fertilizers to the global market.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“That is completely inconsistent with the originally stated goal of combating hunger in the countries in dire need of grain. In that regard, of course, it is worth remembering the public relations failure with the dispatch of the first vessel, the RAZONI, which instead of bringing long-awaited wheat to Lebanon, brought corn for animal feed instead. Against that backdrop, there is much to consider with regard to the Secretary-General’s comment at the port of Odesa on 19 August that grain exports and lower prices in global food markets will not bring relief to needy countries that cannot afford to buy it anyway. This situation clearly reveals the true causes of global food security issues. It is not about Ukrainian grain at all.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“There is no doubt that history will afford a correct assessment of this. Our Albanian colleague propounded today, à la albanaise, about Russian prisoners who are allegedly being recruited by the Russian authorities. However, he forgot to mention those released from Ukrainian prisons, Ukrainian prisoners, who were handed weapons in the first days of the special military operation and who made themselves known by pillaging and murdering and who continue to terrorize Ukrainian towns. We will address that in detail at a future Council meeting. The Secretary-General’s so-called Black Sea initiative is considered a kind of success story, especially as it concerns the unhindered export of food from Ukraine. However, there are alarming trends there as well. In four weeks of export operations, only one of 34 dry cargo ships went to Africa.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Kyiv is losing the battle for minds, and its Western backers, who are waging a proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian, are getting mired deeper and deeper in support of that anti-popular, anti-human regime, turning a blind eye to examples of neo-Nazism, extreme nationalism and Russophobia. They are also shooting themselves in the foot with futile attempts to isolate Russia politically and economically. Then again, that is something Council members will have to answer for to their own voters and taxpayers, as well as to the international community — for the unprecedented mendacious campaign to discredit Russia. Not since the propaganda of the Nazi Joseph Goebbels has the world encountered such a degree of fabrication, which is being used by Western and Ukrainian experts of psychological operations.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“A total of 47 explosions of such mines have already been recorded in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The petal mine is living proof of the sadistic, barbaric nature of the Ukrainian regime, a symbol of its true attitude towards the people of the east and south-east of the country. Of course, the people see and understand that. Hence the treatment of Russian soldiers as liberators, which is widespread in the liberated territories. That does not in any way fit the narrative promoted by Kyiv and its Western sponsors. Ukraine is therefore resorting to terror and intimidation tactics in the Kherson, Zaporizhzhya and Kharkiv regions. But that cannot change the minds of people who have seen the true face of the Kyiv regime.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“At the meeting in July, we already showed members of a photo of a “petal” anti-personnel mine. Today, to make it even clearer, I will show Council members the training models for those mines, which Ukrainian troops are scattering by the hundreds in Donbas, in the territories liberated by the Russian army and even on Russian territory. Imagine such an inconspicuous petal lying on the ground in the grass. It can also be camouflaged, which makes it virtually invisible on the ground. Considering that the Ukrainian Armed Forces scatters those mines in towns and villages far behind the front lines, it is not soldiers that they pose a threat to at all. No, they are purposefully designed to target civilians, especially children, who risk stepping on them or picking up such a “toy” out of curiosity.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“DiCarlo expressed her concern about the upcoming trial of Azov Nazis and sadists, but said nothing of the horrific crimes they committed or their violations of international humanitarian law, including brutal torture, information about which is available to the international civil service community, including Ms. DiCarlo herself. The United Nations, which Ms. DiCarlo represents, also has sufficient information about this. Frankly, this all looks extremely cynical and denigrates the value of the freedom of speech and human rights protection. It is too bad that Council members do not understand that, but ordinary Ukrainians are well aware of it. They encounter the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their national battalions and their inhumane methods. Allow me to cite just one example.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“From the very beginning, we warned that Ukrainian armed groups were actively using civilian facilities for military purposes. Meanwhile, local residents are forbidden from leaving their homes, while all their attempts to independently evacuate to safe areas are brutally suppressed. There have been so many instances of Ukrainian artillery and ammunition being located on the premises of educational and medical facilities over these six months that even pro-Western human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, can no longer ignore them. However, instead of forcing Kyiv to comply with international humanitarian law, our Western colleagues, after the tantrum thrown by the Ukrainian authorities, who are used to getting away with everything, chose to publicly castigate Amnesty International itself instead. And today Ms.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“In doing so, they are becoming complicit in crimes against civilians, and given that the use of some artillery systems, as Ukrainians themselves admit, is impossible without coordinating the targets with the suppliers, they are becoming co-conspirators as well. This applies first and foremost to the American High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, multiple launch rocket systems which were used, in particular, to strike the prison in Olenivka on 29 July and claimed the lives of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war. We know that the President of Ukraine is well aware of the facts that it is the Armed Forces of Ukraine who are behind this crime, despite the fact that he sold us a false version of events today in which Russia was responsible.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“In the Luhansk People’s Republic, 80 people have been killed and more than 250 have been injured. Approximately 100 civilians were killed in the four weeks since the previous meeting on 29 July (see S/PV.9104). The Armed Forces of Ukraine are deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure, including kindergartens, schools and medical facilities, power lines and gas pipelines. Even towns in Donbas that were recently under their control, such as Lysychansk, are not spared. And our former Western partners, instead of condemning their Ukrainian mentees, are supplying them with more and more types of weapons, which reach areas where Kyiv could not previously reach.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“They openly stated that once again at the beginning of the year while threatening to abandon their non-nuclear status. In such a context, in order to establish peace in Donbas and prevent the obvious threats to Russia emanating from Ukraine, we had no choice but to launch a special operation to de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine, the goals of which are being steadily and successfully met. I repeat again: had the Minsk agreements been implemented, no special operation would have been necessary. But the regime in Kyiv decided otherwise. The criminal shelling of the Donbas republics continues. In the Donetsk People’s Republic, more than 840 people are estimated to have died at the line of contact since the beginning of the escalation in February, while 2,800 have been injured.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Their Western backers, blinded by the geopolitical goal of weakening Russia, made it clear from the outset that they would cover up any crimes committed by the Kyiv authorities and turn a blind eye to things they would never allow in their own countries. The Kyiv regime fully demonstrated its criminal nature when it burned dissenters alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odesa and dropped bombs and shelled the civilian population of Donbas. In that senseless crusade against itself, Ukraine lost Crimea and provoked armed resistance from Donetsk and Luhansk residents, who took up arms in the name of freedom and the future of their children. This war, which has claimed civilian lives for eight years, could have ended if Kyiv had fulfilled the Minsk agreements. However, neither the Ukrainian authorities nor their foreign patrons needed that.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“However, the responsibility for that lies with the Kyiv regime, which came to power in 2014 as a result of an unconstitutional coup carried out with the help of a number of Western States. From the very beginning, the new Maidan authorities steadily led the country towards disaster, choosing the path of Russophobia and the glorification of Nazi criminals. According to the most conservative estimates, more than 60 per cent of the population of Ukraine has been deprived of an opportunity to realize their Russian-speaking identity, contrary to all relevant international conventions and Ukraine’s obligations.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“We took note of the explanations of the Secretary- General for why he did not participate in yesterday’s meeting. Today’s meeting, however, is formally not related to developments on the ground at all and is meant to demonstrate the unfailing support of Western delegations for all actions by the Kyiv regime. Predictably, we heard numerous mantras about Russian aggression. As we have already said, over the past 200 years no other explanation for European security issues, except for references to Russia’s actions, has emerged in the West. We also heard many claims today about the catastrophic consequences of six months of hostilities for the civilian population of Ukraine. No one is arguing that things are not difficult for Ukrainians today.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): With regard to the statement by the President of Ukraine, the reason that the Security Council at one point decided not to invite foreign leaders via video- teleconference included avoiding technical difficulties, as we just saw during Mr. Zelenskyy’s statement. It was very difficult to make out anything at certain points. We hope that our position with regard to the usefulness of the in-person participation of such guests — at the very least out of respect for them — has become clearer as a result to those following today’s meeting. We met here yesterday (see S/PV.9114) in connection with a concrete threat to international peace and security, namely, Kyiv’s ongoing bombardment of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is bringing Europe to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Zelenskyy will be able to come to the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly as the Head of the Ukrainian delegation or not, as the representative of Albania has claimed.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We regret that members of the Security Council have spoken out against complying with the rules of the Council. We can understand the logic of Kyiv’s Western backers, who are prepared to sacrifice the entire Ukrainian people to cover up Kyiv’s crimes and the Council’s work, but we are disappointed by the fact that other members, who when they come to the Council commit to upholding the rules of the Council, have today contributed to the erosion of its very foundations and practices. We call on all States Members of the United Nations to take note of today’s situation. Despite our position, we will hear out Mr. Zelenskyy because we also have something to say to him. We hope that he will remain at today’s meeting until its conclusion. We shall see whether or not Mr.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Moreover, today in this Chamber we see Secretary-General António Guterres, who just recently travelled to Ukraine and visited various cities there. I repeat once again that what we are objecting to in this regard is not the participation of the Head of Ukraine, but rather his participation via video- teleconference specifically. We ask the President to put this matter to a procedural vote.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“We cannot agree to make an exception for one country and one person for the third time. This meeting was announced a week in advance, and the President had the opportunity to travel to New York. We constantly see Mr. Zelenskyy meeting foreign delegations, travelling around the country and even posing for photo shoots for glossy magazines. He is also appointed as the Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, something that is possible only through personal participation. Based on all this, we can draw the conclusion that there are no restrictions to the President’s movements. We also know that the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Dmytro Kuleba, has been actively travelling abroad.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“However, this year, during our presidency in February, as well as other Presidents, did not allow high-ranking representatives of Member States to speak under rule 37 via video-teleconference, so why should there be double standards in the Council on this matter? Why are other Heads of State or ministers of other countries that are on the Council’s agenda subjected to discrimination? This harkens back to the situation with international humanitarian assistance, which rushed into Ukraine when people forgot to help others in other parts of the world, or the double standards on refugees and migrants in Europe when refugees from Ukraine are green- lighted in every European country while refugees from Africa and the Middle East and other regions find themselves facing barriers.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Each time we expressed our negative view of that in writing, but at that time the Western Council members, including the Council Presidents who invited the President of Ukraine to address the Council, assured us in writing that this was an exception that would not set a precedent. A precedent is not set after one or two times, but a third time is no longer an exception. We would like to remind those members of the Council who presided or will preside in the Council that we have already encountered such cases. We can understand making a few exceptions when we had just returned to the Chamber after the pandemic when the Heads of certain States were still prevented from travelling.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“It is also a matter of respect for the members of the Council and for the Council as a body. Indeed, when the world was facing the coronavirus disease pandemic, we collectively decided that we would continue working virtually. But, according to our collective decision, all of our meetings via video- teleconference (VTC) were informal meetings. Then, after returning to the Council Chamber after the peak of the pandemic, we decided that the Council would resume its normal working methods, which meant a return to the provisional rules of procedure as well. In other words, if we the members of the Security Council are sitting here in the Chamber, other Member States participating under rule 37 must be present too. Mr. Zelenskyy has already spoken to the Council twice via VTC. Each time, we expressed our negative view of that in writing.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Our delegation objects to the virtual participation of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in today’s meeting. We would like to explain our objection in detail. We are not opposing the participation of the President of Ukraine or his representative in the meeting. I repeat again for the record — and for those who will try to distort our position — that we do not object to the participation of the President of Ukraine in this meeting. However, that participation must be in person; in other words, he must be physically present in the Security Council Chamber. This is not a whim on our part; these are the rules that govern the work of the Council. There is no politics involved here; it is purely a procedural matter.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“That is an irresponsible proposal, as it completely ignores the need to maintain the conditions necessary for the safe operation of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. We once again urge them to stop covering up the actions of their Kyiv proxies and to encourage them to stop their reckless attacks against the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which could lead to a nuclear incident and the radioactive contamination of European countries.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“All that is being done with the sole purpose of whitewashing the reputation of their Kyiv protégés regardless of the latter’s actions, thereby giving them carte blanche to carry out their most reckless actions, since they can count on them being justified unconditionally by their sponsors. We have once again been called upon to agree to a visit by a mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which we agreed to in June and have repeatedly done so, including today. Some Western colleagues seem to be of the view that the only and simplest way of resolving the situation is to withdraw Russian troops and create a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are meeting today because the reasons that have compelled us to request this meeting have not gone away. Despite the fact that there are no Russian heavy weapons located at or firing from the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces of both the plant and Enerhodar continues. We have said that on many occasions, which can be confirmed by impartial monitoring data, including satellite imagery. Once again, as with a broken record, we have heard that everything is Russia’s fault. The real root causes of the events at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant are being brazenly distorted, and obvious facts are being hushed up or denied.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“But even putting aside morality, which has long been eclipsed by Russophobia among our Western colleagues, Ms. Černochová’s statement essentially amounts to open support and propaganda for acts of terror against civilians. I would like to remind the Council that a Czech citizen named Čermák who publicly supported a terrorist act in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the Czech Republic. We expect the competent Czech authorities to treat their Minister of Defence’s statements with equal seriousness and assess them accordingly.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“He was taught to plant explosives in buildings and cars and then sent to the Donetsk people’s republic to carry out a terrorist act in a Volodarsk district administrative building. Fortunately, Karpenko turned himself in, but if he had done what he had planned, the scale of the potential civilian casualties is frightening even to imagine. In that context, it is no longer surprising that the Czech authorities have crossed the bounds of every moral standard and have been openly gloating about the death of Darya Dugina. Jana Černochová, the Czech Minister of Defence, said that she did not feel sorry for Darya or her father and that the night of 21 August will long be remembered in Russia. She has since confirmed that she stands behind every word.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“The official representatives of the Kyiv regime are calling openly for the murder of Russians. Pyotr Vrublevsky, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan, stated publicly not long ago that Ukraine’s goal is to kill as many Russians as possible. According to him, the more Russians who are killed now, the fewer there will be left for future generations of Ukrainians to have to kill. We are shocked that not only do the Western countries not condemn this, but they are helping the Ukrainian special services train subversive saboteurs to exterminate so-called undesirables. A clear example of that is that of Yevgeniy Karpenko, a Ukrainian citizen who was recruited by the Ukrainian special services in the Czech Republic and trained to lay mines at a military base in the Czech city of Český Krumlov.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“Here is a photo from the infamous “Peacemaker” website, which we have repeatedly referenced. They are openly boasting about her murder. As you can see, her photo is crossed out, with the caption “liquidated”. We note that this crime was condemned by an official representative of the United States Department of State. We call on the Council and the United Nations leadership to strongly condemn this latest crime by the Kyiv regime. Not only are they using nuclear blackmail by shelling the nuclear power plant and holding people in Europe hostage, but they also crossed all of the lines and are now physically eliminating the civilians they do not like, who are foreign citizens. And in this case the victim was an independent journalist, killed because of her professional activity.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“We stand ready to extend maximum assistance to resolve all organizational issues. In conclusion, I would like to draw the attention of the members of the Council to the tragedy that took place near Moscow on 20 August — a vehicle driven by Daria Dugina, a well-known independent journalist, war correspondent and political scientist, was blown up. Our competent authorities are conducting an investigation. Preliminarily, they have established that the Ukrainian secret services are behind that monstrous crime. The direct perpetrator, who is affiliated with the nationalist Azov Battalion, has been identified. She managed to evade justice and escape to Estonia. Daria Dugina was 29 years old. Her life was cut short in its prime. Due to her professional activities, the journalist had long been in the sights of Ukrainian nationalists.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“What does the Secretariat make of the fact that the shelling of the plant by Ukraine is continuing in the light of the grave concern expressed by the IAEA about the situation? From day one, we have supported the efforts of the IAEA and its Director General, Rafael Grossi, to organize a mission to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. We did all we could to ensure that the visit of the IAEA experts to the plant could take place as early as June, and we had already agreed to that mission by 3 June. The trip was then cancelled through no fault of our own. Today we hear absurd speculation in the foreign press that Western countries almost forced Russia’s to consent to the mission. We expect that the IAEA mission will nevertheless take place in the near future and that Agency experts will be able to confirm the real situation at the plant.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“The Russian Ministry of Defence is ready to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) high- resolution images that show that no weapons, let alone heavy weapons, have been placed there. Recently, Secretary-General Guterres visited Ukraine. We pinned certain hopes on his visit. We expected that the United Nations would firmly demand that Kyiv stop shelling the station. But we have not heard any condemnation of what is going on from Mr. Guterres, other than appeals for military actions to bypass the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. I would like to ask Ms. DiCarlo whether the Secretary-General managed to obtain a promise from Volodymyr Zelensky to stop shelling the plant.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“That cynical attitude towards the population of Ukraine is further evidence that the Western handlers in Kyiv are not at all concerned about their fate and are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. We have thus far been able to avoid catastrophes resulting from the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant by the Armed Forces of Ukraine thanks to the joint and well-coordinated work of the plant’s personnel, firefighters, emergency crews and Russian military personnel, who are helping them in any way they can. That confirms that there is a healthy working atmosphere at the plant and that no one is harassing anyone. Contrary to the false statements of the Kyiv regime and its handlers, Russia is not placing heavy weapons on the premises of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and is not using the plant for military purposes.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“At the same time, the Western mass media is using the conclusions of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency that the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is not dangerous for the population of Western Europe and that, even in the case of a hypothetical accident, there would be no large-scale catastrophe because the station should withstand the rocket strike, and even if it fails, the radioactive plume would not reach Western Europe. The fact that, even in the least destructive scenario, the population of the Zaporizhzhya oblast will suffer, our Western colleagues are apparently ready, as usual, to consider it collateral damage. That shows their concern for human rights and people-centred security, that the Western delegations told us so much about at yesterday’s Council meeting (see S/PV.9112).”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“At the most recent meeting, not a single Western delegation had the courage to condemn the shelling of the plant by the Ukrainian armed forces and to call on the Kyiv regime to stop it. Neither was such courage found in the European capitals, only absurd appeals to Russia to stop some “recent actions around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant” It seems that our colleagues exist in some parallel reality, in which the Russian military itself is shelling the station that it is protecting, using American systems. The pinnacle of that absurdity was the recent statements by British parliamentarian Tobias Ellwood and United States House of Representatives member Adam Kinzinger that the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant could be a reason to invoke article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“Immediately after the shelling, fire was opened on the suburbs of Enerhodar. On 22 August, an unmanned aerial vehicle attacked the area of laboratory building 2. Furthermore, American long-range artillery was used to shell the thermal tower station in Enerhodar. According to our information, one civilian died and one was wounded. I want to show the Council a photograph of the destruction of the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We have a whole collection of such photographic evidence, and we distributed it this morning as official documents of the Security Council and the General Assembly. The fact that the Kyiv regime is not stopping its attacks on the station is a direct consequence of the criminal acquiescence of its Western patrons.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“As a result of the shelling of the city of Enerhodar, one person died and another was wounded. On 15 August, 30 shells were fired from 152-millimetre guns. On 17 August, 11 shells were launched, in addition to a Polish-made kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle. Three strikes were made by loitering munitions on Enerhodar. On 18 August, Enerhodar was shelled seven times with heavy artillery. On 20 August, strikes on the station were made from Ukrainian positions using heavy artillery and American-made 155-millimetre shells using American-made M379 fuses. An artillery strike was carried out in the area of special buildings 1 and 2, as well as the laboratory and amenities building. As a result, the building of the laboratory and amenities building 2 were damaged, as was the hydraulics-unit building and the station lighting.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue shelling the territory of the nuclear power plant and the town of Enerhodar practically every day. That creates a real risk of a radiation accident in the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, with catastrophic consequences for the entire European continent. According to information available to the Russian Ministry of Defence and the civil-military administration of the Zaporizhzhya oblast, on 11 August, the forty- fourth artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the station with 152-millimetre guns, damaging the equipment of the spray pools of the nuclear reactor’s cooling system. On 14 August, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 10 shells at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, with 155-millimetre shells from American-made M777 howitzers, and launched two guided munitions.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing. In the context of that briefing, I would like to point out that we heard her say that the electricity of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant belongs to Ukraine. Nevertheless, we would like to draw the Council’s attention to the fact that we have not heard such words from the Secretariat regarding the frozen Russian assets in the West or the Syrian oil that is being stolen by the American authorities illegally occupying Syria. About two weeks have passed since the most recent meeting of the Security Council on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (see S/PV.9109). In the course of that time, nuclear safety has further deteriorated.”
2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source
“What is happening to Ukraine now, and indeed what NATO has been doing on the European continent for the past 30 years, is a lesson for the whole world. Does anyone think that the United States and its allies will behave differently in other regions? History tells us otherwise. Therefore ask not for whom the bell tolls today. It tolls for you.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“That is important, despite the fierce opposition of the United States and its allies. The outlines of a new world order are taking shape before our eyes today. A growing number of countries are choosing a path of sovereign political, economic and civilizational development while rejecting the formulas and templates imposed by Western countries. The West, however, is ready to do anything to preserve its hegemony. For the sake of that desire, Ukraine was sacrificed and turned into a firing range for a proxy war with Russia until the last Ukrainian falls. We hope that the West’s actions in Ukraine have opened the eyes of many around the world to the true underlying cause of the crises gripping our planet.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“In principle, we remain open to cooperating to reduce tensions, stop the arms race and minimize strategic risks. However, that also requires our Western colleagues’ commitment. So far we have seen no such interest on their part. Reducing tensions in the world and overcoming threats and risks in the political and military arena will be possible only by strengthening the multipolar system, based on international law, the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the sovereign equality of States. That is the only real and effective alternative to hegemony and might-is-right. We are ready to participate actively in collaborating with like-minded partners to build a truly democratic world, in which the rights of all nations and their security interests and cultural and civilizational diversity will be guaranteed.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Within the context of the collective West’s de facto sabotage of the global security architecture, Russia continues do everything possible to keep afloat at least its critical, vital elements. In February 2021, at our initiative, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between Russia and the United States was extended for five years. And we took the initiative to reaffirm the principle that there can be no winners in a nuclear war — and that such a war must never be unleashed — in the joint statement of the leaders of the five nuclear-weapon States adopted on 3 January. It also emphasized the need to prevent not only a nuclear confrontation but any military confrontation between nuclear-weapon States. It is imperative that all the signatories to the statement demonstrate their commitment to its provisions through their actions.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“We have been forced to conclude that the Asia-Pacific region has become part of a purposeful, conscious United States strategy aimed at destabilizing the situation in regions of the world where there are States pursuing their own independent policies. The tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is currently being held in New York. It is meant to bring the international community together to implement the Treaty’s provisions. But here too the Western countries are politicizing the work on the final document by putting their geopolitical interests in punishing Russia above the collective demand that we strengthen global security.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source