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Nebenzia

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first: 2017-08-02
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“Otherwise, The New York Times would not go even further to state that the corpses had been there on the streets since 20 March. Can you imagine the kind of state they would be in if that were indeed that case? Furthermore, many of the bodies in the videos circulated by the Ukrainians were wearing identifying marks — white arm bands. Those arm bands were worn by civilians after the Russian armed forces entered the town. In one video posted online by Ukrainian radicals, a call to shoot anyone not wearing a blue arm band can be heard. That video, taken during the mop- up of Bucha, was posted by a leader of the Territorial Defence Battalion, to whom the Ukrainian authorities had handed out weapons in an uncontrolled way.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“The so-called evidence of crimes by the Russian forces in Bucha appeared only on 3 April — the fourth day after Russian forces left the town. Once again, without any evidence and based on the presumption of guilt, the Russian army is being accused of evil deeds. Of course, we could not help but notice how quickly the images by Ukrainian journalists were lapped up by Western politicians and famous human rights organizations claiming to be impartial and unbiased. At the same time, the obvious inconsistencies in the Ukrainian version of events promoted by Ukraine and westerners are pointedly ignored. If the corpses had been out in the open for several days, they would have displayed signs that are well-known to forensic specialists. Our Western colleagues do not seem to be bothered by that.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“On 1 April, Bucha city councillor Kateryna Ukraintseva warned her fellow residents several times in a two-minute video that representatives of the Ukrainian security forces had entered the town and were conducting a mop-up operation. She asked everyone to be very careful. Currently, on the web, one can also find an almost eight-minute-long video on the announced mop-up of Bucha by the Ukrainian national police on 2 April. In that video, there are no bodies of civilians on the street. Furthermore, in that video, the National Guard of Ukraine conducts interviews with local residents, who also make no mention of corpses or mass shootings. On one Ukrainian news site, there was also a warning posted on the upcoming mop-up of Bucha on 2 April by Russian collaborators. It has now been deleted, but some users were able to save it.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Meanwhile, the areas to the south of Bucha, including residential areas, were shelled around the clock by Ukrainian forces with heavy calibre weapons, tanks and mortars. After the withdrawal of Russian forces from the city, the Mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, in a video statement on 31 March, presented that withdrawal as a heroic liberation of the city by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Let him be responsible for the misrepresentation of circumstances of that so-called liberation and focus on the fact that he confirmed that, on 31 March, there were no longer any Russian soldiers in the town. Furthermore, the Mayor did not mention any local inhabitants having been shot with their hands tied. Can one believe that the Mayor did not notice 280 corpses on the streets, as reported?”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“All Russian armed forces units fully withdrew from Bucha as a gesture of good faith on 30 March, the day after a round of negotiations was conducted between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. A report on the matter was published the very same day on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Defence. During the time that the town was under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single civilian suffered any kind of violence. People were able to move freely around the town and use their cell phones. Furthermore, the Russian army supplied 452 tons of humanitarian assistance to cities and towns in Kyiv oblast. There is evidence to support this. The exits from the town were not blocked; all inhabitants were free to evacuate towards the north.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I know that this will not bring us any closer to the end of today’s meeting, but given that today’s topic is extremely important, I think that it is essential to say a few words on the reason this meeting was convened, especially as we were not given the chance to elaborate on that yesterday in a separate meeting of the Security Council on the matter. Unfortunately, our Western colleagues have tried to sweep our request for yesterday’s meeting under the rug by any means possible, providing us with a fine example of what the new “rules-based order” really is. I would like to focus once again on the events in Bucha, which became the premise for convening today’s meeting and has led many Council members to jump to far-reaching conclusion.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“He must make the right decisions for his country, because the West is ready to fight in Ukraine to the last Ukrainian. He must make that decision now. After all, he is well aware of the real situation at the front. Later might be too late.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“We will achieve that goal, I hope sooner rather than later, because there is no other outcome. We avoid shooting at civilian targets in order to save as many civilian lives as possible, and that is why we are not advancing as fast as many expected. We are not acting like the Americans and their allies in Iraq and Syria, razing entire cities to the ground. They had no pity for them, but we feel great pity because those are people who are close to us. Radicals, however, have nothing to lose. They could not care less about civilians. They are ready to take to the grave with them the entire population of Ukraine, as was clearly demonstrated by the provocation in Bucha. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy must not allow the West to achieve its goals.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“But the most important thing is — and I want to reiterate it — how have we sunk to depths of cruelty such that nationalists are displaying, for example, those of the Azov Battalion? In President Zelenskyy’s interview with the American media, he coyly and bashfully stated that they are what they are. I really hope that he will reflect on this and that he will find a solution to the situation, because it depends only on him. We went to Ukraine not to conquer Ukrainian territory but to bring long-awaited peace to the blood- soaked land of Donbas, not a truce but a true, lasting peace. For that we need to root out the cruelty that I mentioned. We need to cut out the malignant Nazi tumour that is consuming Ukraine and would have eventually begun to consume Russia.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Also, the bodies shown in the video in no way appear to have been lying on the street for three or four days; or, based on the sensational and completely scientifically absurd information provided by The New York Times, to have been there since 20 March. The only ones who could fall for this fake are absolute dilettantes or our Western partners that do not want to hear anything and have called black white, and vice versa, for a long time now. Those countries do not care in the slightest about Ukraine itself. For them, it is simply a pawn in the geopolitical game against Russia, which they will sacrifice easily. But in the meantime, they will try to prolong the conflict by delivering as many weapons and as much ammunition as possible.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“They were killed in areas from which Russian troops withdrew after encouraging peace negotiations in Istanbul. Now it turns out that the Russian forces should not have left. I am talking primarily about Bucha. I understand that members saw corpses and heard testimonials. But they saw only what was shown to them. They cannot ignore the blatant inconsistencies in the version of events that is being promoted by the Ukrainian and Western media, the fact that there were no corpses in the city immediately after the departure of Russian troops, as confirmed by several videos, and the fact that there are recordings in which Ukrainian radicals called for shooting those with white armbands, that is, civilians. If one watches the video shown today very closely, one can see that the people lying on the ground wore white armbands. They are civilians.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“It was the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic that helped us to get to Mangush.” There are many other heart-rending stories — about Russians and Ukrainians tortured to death with swastikas burned into their chests; about people killed by looters and criminals to whom weapons were distributed; and about killed civilians and foreigners whose deaths the Ukrainian leadership tries to blame on Russian military, contrary to all facts and common sense. I said it already and I say it again now: it is absolutely unacceptable and vile to even consider that the Russian military would be capable of this, of doing what they are accused of. Now we are seeing blatant, criminally staged events with Ukrainians killed by their own radicals, in the best tradition of Goebbels, so as to accuse the Russian army.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“I saw it with my own eyes.” Suportkina Olga Sergeevna said, “At school No. 15 in Mariupol, on 25 February the Ukrainian armed forces took up positions there and left on 7 March. They directed fire from there. Our building was badly damaged by the shelling.” On 8 and 9 March there was intense shelling targeting homes. The Ukrainian military was asked why it was doing that. They replied that until the entire Russian spirit was destroyed, they would remain there. “They started looting right away and plundered all the shops.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“They were kicked out by soldiers with blue armbands, which are insignias of the Ukrainian army. Marina Vasilievna testified that she was tortured in a basement by Ukrainian security services. “They tied me to a sewer pipe. When they found out that I was Russian, they beat me, tortured me with electric current, raped me and threatened to rape and torture my young daughter.” Shapovalova Olga Georgievna said, “We left Mariupol from Mangush already on 25 March. The firing positions of the Ukrainian army were positioned between residential homes and the school courtyard. They used civilians as cover. Near the drama theatre, a Ukrainian tank drove around firing indiscriminately, including targeting residential buildings. Tanks were stationed nears schools No. 68, No. 69 and N. 5.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Natalia Kudinova said that the mayor of the town was one of the first to escape, and then the Ukrainian authorities lied and said that Russia was not allowing people through the humanitarian corridors. The Azov national battalion, under threat of death, kept women with children in basements and robbed civilians at checkpoints. A grandmother with her grandchildren said that the Azov Battalion did not allow her to leave her basement. Anyone trying to leave was shot. At the Azov checkpoint, girls and women were stripped naked and had their jewellery and money taken away. Valentina Nikolaevna Borisenkova said that the Ukrainian military expelled a woman with two children from a private home on Kramatorskaya Street and used it as a firing position to lob mortar rounds. She left her home with tears in her eyes, along with two children.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“That would not have been such an issue had they not acted like Nazis and killed as they did. They are not just killing captured Russian soldiers, whom they torture and gloat about it on social media, but also their fellow countrymen. His neo-Nazis and radicals have shown unrivalled cruelty towards the civilian population, which they use as human shields, and position heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers next to residential buildings. Today we have heard once again a tremendous number of lies about Russian soldiers and the Russian military. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of video testimonials by people who are ready to testify to the cruelty of Ukrainian nationals. I will read just a few of them here. They are cruel, but they need to be heard.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“How could it be otherwise when the national heroes of Ukraine are the Nazi collaborators Bandera and Shukhevych, who are responsible not only for the Holocaust but also for the murders of hundreds of thousands of Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Jewish civilians? He simply chose not to notice the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, pretending that they do not exist. But, unfortunately, they are there, and even more regrettably, there are many of them and they include numerous young people. How do we know that? They are not concealing it. They have Nazi tattoos, they decorate their clothing with swastikas and other Nazi symbols, they give one another Nazi salutes and are open about it on social media. There are many of them in national battalions such as Aidar, the Right Sector and the Azov Battalion.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Today, bombs and artillery rounds are exploding throughout the territory of Ukraine, not only in the east, where they have not ceased for the past eight years. They are exploding precisely because, unfortunately, there is no other way left to bring peace to Donbas, after he and his subordinates categorically refused to implement the Minsk agreements while preparing, already back in March, to solve the problem of Donbas by military means. During our special operation, we found many secret orders testifying to that. We are told that there can be no Nazis in Ukraine. However, we know perfectly well that they are there and that, unfortunately, they are running the show.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“It seemed that we were on the verge of turning the page on the historical injustice resulting from the Maidan coup in 2014, when Ukraine began to transform into a hateful “anti-Russia”. However, those hopes were not destined to become a reality. He now scornfully refers to the inhabitants of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as a sub-species, echoing his predecessor, who threatened to let the people of Donetsk and Luhansk rot in their basements and urged them to leave for Russia. Now he has declared war against his native Russian language by introducing, in essence, a linguistic inquisition in a country where Russian is the native language of a minimum of 40 per cent of the population.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Another topic raised for discussion at today’s meeting has barely been discussed, so I will refrain from delivering my remarks on that. Instead, I would like to take advantage of the virtual participation of the President of Ukraine in this meeting to address him directly. We place on his conscience the groundless accusations against the Russian military, which have not been confirmed by any eyewitnesses. We spoke about that in detail yesterday at our press conference. We all remember very well when, in 2019, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was elected the President of Ukraine. There were many hopes tied to his election, because he went to the polls with the promise of peace and an end to the war in Donbas. The Russian-speaking population believed in him because he undertook to protect their rights.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“However, even in the context of the arrangements reached with the help of international mediators, it is the Ukrainian side that is consistently failing to fulfil its obligations. I will not bore the Council with statistics, but detailed reports are published daily by our Ministry of Defence. I will simply note that, from Mariupol alone towards the east, without any participation by the Ukrainian side, we have already managed to save over 123,686 people. Overall, more than 620,000 people — more than 122,000 of whom are children — have already been evacuated to Russia since the beginning of the special military operation. There has been no coercion or abduction, as our Western partners like to imply. The many videos available on social media testify to the voluntary decision of those people.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the delegation of the United Arab Emirates for its presidency during the month of March. We thank the Secretary-General, Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings. We also listened carefully to the President of Ukraine, Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky. We thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his visit to Moscow, during which, as far as we can judge, he had some useful meetings and discussions. He should know better than anyone else the efforts that Russia is undertaking every single day to organize humanitarian corridors.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We have factual evidence that this was no less than 24 hours before the meeting that we requested. That is confirmed in documents; if anyone is interested, we could provide proof. But I want to express the hope that what you said today, Madam President, means that you will not in future refuse requests made by States members of the Security Council to hold meetings.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“We therefore demand an explanation and a guarantee that, in the future, you will not challenge the right of members of the Security Council to request meetings, as enshrined in rule 2 of the Security Council’s provisional rules of procedure: (spoke in English) “The President shall call a meeting of the Security Council at the request of any member of the Security Council.””
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“This outrageous situation is outlined in the letter addressed to you, Madam, that we circulated yesterday as an official Council document. I would like to ask: On what grounds do you consider it acceptable to act in such an outrageous way, in contravention of all existing norms and rules? Do you not know that, in cases where you do not agree with our proposal, you should convene a meeting and put forward the issue of the advisability of holding that meeting to a vote? Our presidency, during which we did not refuse to convene a single one of the six meetings on Ukraine, should have served as an example in that regard.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Before we adopt the agenda, I would like to protest the way in which the newly inaugurated British presidency dealt with our two requests to convene a Security Council meeting in connection with the horrific provocation of the Ukrainian radicals in the city of Bucha. On Sunday, 3 April, we first requested that a meeting be held on Monday, 4 April, at 3 p.m. before requesting an emergency meeting at 12 p.m. on 4 April, after our first request was refused. You, Madam, considered it appropriate to blatantly violate the Council’s rules of procedure and, for the second time, issue an authoritarian decision — without coordinating with anyone else — that it would be better to discuss this topic today.”
2022-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9011 (2022) · source
“Those were wars of choice, because the United States had a choice not to start those wars, just as today Washington and its allies have a choice to stop adding fuel to the fire of the Ukrainian crisis by supplying the Kyiv regime with weapons and provoking an international food crisis and hunger in States around the world.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“We have repeatedly explained what has led to the current crisis, and those who accuse us of this are doing so, inter alia, because they seek to gloss over their role in provoking the crisis and are pretending that despite their policies of creating an anti-Russian State for geopolitical purposes, which is what Ukraine has turned into, this has nothing to do with them. If we are going to talk about wars of choice, then let us recall the United States aggression against Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and the Viet Nam War. All those States are thousands of kilometres away from Washington, and military warfare there led to nothing except hundreds of thousands of ruined and broken lives, leaving behind completely devastated countries and condemning millions of people to destitution and a miserable existence.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“We cannot rule out the possibility that the vehicles of those organizations or vehicles with medical markings are being used to transport into Ukraine the very weapons that the West so generously promised to Kyiv from neighbouring States, and I hope that it is clear what reputational damage such a scenario could do to all international entities that are concealing the fact of vehicles with their insignia being used for such purposes. In conclusion, I would like to respond to a talking point that has already become common in the vocabulary of our Western colleagues, namely, that Russia’s military operation is allegedly an unprovoked war of choice. That is also a formula that we heard again today.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“We are awaiting a response to our most recent enquiry regarding a United Nations vehicle with diplomatic plates DP210015, also in Kharkiv, which, according to witness testimonies, took part in Ukrainian nationalist combat operations. We are also aware of cases of radicals using vehicles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Our colleagues in Vienna are fully aware of that information. It is important that both international organizations provide fair assessments of such incidents. Incidentally, online publications clearly show that DHL delivery vehicles have also fallen into the hands of the Ukrainian armed forces and are being used to transport weapons.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Even to the average observer, it is clear that the lifting of tensions in logistics and financial relations, ensuring the continuity of supply chains and stabilizing international agricultural and food markets can be achieved only by rejecting unlawful unilateral restrictions. After all, the stocks of food produced in Russia have not decreased. It is precisely the Western States themselves that are capable of preventing hunger and food shortages, regardless of how much they might argue the opposite today and try to shift the blame onto Russia. We also cannot fail to express our concern about the ongoing cases of vehicles with United Nations insignia being confiscated by the Ukrainian armed forces. It is good that the Secretariat has finally acknowledged such offences taking place in Kharkiv and Mariupol.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Today we heard, and will again hear, a claim about the allegedly imminent global food crisis. According to Western delegations, it is caused exclusively by Russia’s actions in Ukraine. By framing the question in that way, our Western colleagues are deceiving themselves. After all, the real reasons the global food market is experiencing serious turbulence are by no means because of Russia’s actions, rather because of the unbridled sanctions hysteria unleashed by the West against Russia, without consideration for the people of the so-called “global South” or its own citizens. Attempts to isolate Russia economically, financially and logistically from long-established channels of cooperation are already turning into an economic crisis of historic proportions.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Communication channels have been established and are successfully functioning among the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Russia and the leadership of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In direct coordination with the ICRC, we are organizing safe corridors for evacuations and the search and exchange of prisoners of war. On 18 March, with the assistance of the Russian armed Forces, the first United Nations humanitarian convoy travelled from Poltava to Sumy. It delivered and distributed 130 tons of humanitarian assistance. While convoys with tons of food and essential goods are travelling to Ukraine, what is travelling from the West to Ukraine, as we all know, are weapons and missiles.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“That information has been communicated by us to all interested parties. Although our Western colleagues did not support the humanitarian draft resolution in the Security Council, we are unilaterally implementing all our humanitarian commitments. We are working on the humanitarian corridors, at our own initiative, on a daily basis — 10 routes have again been suggested today, both towards Russia and western Ukraine. We are also organizing the delivery of basic necessities, medicine and food to those in need. We have already delivered more than 6,000 tons of aid to Ukraine, and half a million refugees are currently being hosted in Russia.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“We are waiting a fair assessment in connection with such a witch hunt from our Western colleagues and relevant human rights bodies of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The list of problems created by Kyiv keeps growing. Added danger in the form of drifting Ukrainian mines has now also appeared at sea. Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey have already faced, or will soon face, that dangerous problem. In that context, we would like to stress that there is no threat to the freedom of civilian navigation from the Russian armed forces. In order to allow foreign vessels to leave Ukrainian ports for open sea, we have established a humanitarian corridor — an 80-nautical-mile-long and three nautical-mile-wide traffic lane. The corridor operates every day from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Moscow time.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Similar reports have since been received with regard to Vasyl Volha, a Ukrainian opposition politician and leader of the Union of Leftists party, political scientist Dmytro Dzhanhirov, opposition political scientist Yuri Dudkin, journalist and publicist Dmitriy Skvortsov, historian and public figure Alexander Karevin, journalist and television host Yan Taksyur and the editor-in-chief of the Odessa-based publication Timer, Yuriy Tkachev. The Security Service of Ukraine even searched the home of another political scientist known to the Security Council, Mykhaylo Pohrebynskyy. We have no information about what is happening to him today.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“In the context of such cruel treatment by Ukrainian radicals and special services of their own citizens, we have serious concerns about the measures being undertaken by Kyiv to physically eliminate leaders publicly espousing undesirable opinions. In our letter of 21 March (S/2022/253), we officially informed the Security Council about the abduction by the Security Service of Ukraine of civilian activist Elena Berezhnaya, who had participated in Council meetings. There is still no information on her fate.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“The draft resolution also contained a demand for respectful and humane treatment of prisoners of war, taking into account the videos posted online by Ukrainian Nazis showing extremely cruel treatment of Russian soldiers being held captive. Have Council members seen those images? And this is happening despite the fact that Russia is strictly observing its international obligations, and there is no threat to Ukrainians who lay down their arms. Council members can also find evidence of that in videos on social media. The Ukrainian Nazis do not shy away from the most sophisticated torture and reprisals. It is enough to mention the shocking discovery of civilians tortured to death in national battalion torture prisons with Nazi swastikas branded on their mutilated bodies. Have Council members seen those images?”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“And yet our proposals contained in the draft resolution went further than the list presented by our Western colleagues. It also contained a requirement not to place heavy weapons in residential areas and not to use civilians as shields. Their adoption by the Council could have saved innumerable lives, as the main threat to civilians in Ukrainian towns and cities comes from Ukrainian Nazis and radicals, who are using civilians as human shields. The Internet is full of video evidence of that — from liberated cities or from those who managed to leave through humanitarian corridors, even as they were being shelled by Ukrainian armed forces and nationalists. I hope that Council members have seen those images. And yet today we are being told that we are allegedly bombing vessels with grain, agricultural equipment and grain storage warehouses.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank today’s briefers. Today we have heard, and will likely hear again, many calls for a humanitarian truce, the provision of humanitarian access, humanitarian pauses and humanitarian corridors. Such initiatives were advanced yesterday by Secretary-General António Guterres. It is hard not to marvel at my colleagues’ inconsistency. Just last Wednesday (see S/PV.9002), less than a week ago, most of them rejected our humanitarian draft resolution S/2022/231, which would have been binding on all parties and which contained a specific list of steps to be taken to unblock the work of humanitarian agencies, primarily in eastern Ukraine. In that context, today’s statements, especially those by Western delegations, sound very hypocritical.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“We regret the fact that the Council was not in a position to adopt the draft resolution contained in document S/2022/231, which would have facilitated the settlement of these issues. Nonetheless, we trust that we and those members of the international community that are genuinely interested in this effort will do everything possible to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and ease the plight of civilians.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“Unfortunately, many countries, including the United Kingdom, fail to remember other episodes — and I will not list them; it seems that today is not the appropriate time to single anyone out. All human lives are invaluable. I could have reminded the Council — but today I will not do so — of what the representatives of that country, including those sitting at the table, said vis-à-vis the deaths of civilians, including children, and mass casualties, in the context of other conflicts. In all territories under the control of Russian military personnel, residents are already receiving basic necessities and food, and we believe fully that as the special military operation’s objectives are met, the situation will continue to improve there. We call upon the Security Council not to politicize the humanitarian issue.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“It will allow the Ukrainian side to continue to ignore demands for the establishment of a ceasefire for the evacuation of people through humanitarian corridors. Kyiv will continue to use civilians as human shields, and, contrary to international humanitarian law, Kyiv will continue to deploy heavy weaponry near hospitals and kindergartens. Turning to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, we shall endeavour to resolve this issue, as we have done over the past eight years for the people of Donbas, whose suffering the Council prefers to forget. Today we heard the way the United Kingdom representative reminded us that we are all one human race. I agree with that.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“We have repeatedly spoken about this and at length, but unfortunately people choose not to listen to or hear this. Turning into biological and chemical weapons, I take this opportunity to reiterate the following. This is an unimaginable accusation leveled at the Russian Federation. My colleagues should believe us when we say that we have other means of warfare. We have no use for chemical or biological weapons. Accusing the Russian Federation in this way is simply unworthy of members of the Security Council, especially given the fact that such weapons were destroyed by us long ago. The absence of a Security Council humanitarian resolution without a doubt significantly complicates the lives of humanitarian representatives on the ground.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“For this reason, in this Chamber or at the General Assembly, when my colleagues lament that those provisions are not being implemented, we will remind them that they were before them but they refused to vote in favour of them for political reasons. They had a choice, and they made their choice. Today once again we heard accusations levelled at the Russian Federation by a number of delegations that we are preparing for the use of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine. We again heard fake information, which we have repeatedly repudiated, and these were edifying vis-à-vis what transpired in Mariupol with respect to the shelling that took place there, with respect to the murder of people waiting in queue — I will not list all of that.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“Our draft resolution contains such key elements as a call for establishing a ceasefire and humanitarian pauses for the purposes of conducting safe and unhindered evacuation from Ukraine of civilian populations and all those who express a desire to do so, without discrimination on any grounds, a call not to attack any critical infrastructure objects and a call not to place heavy military equipment in residential areas and densely populated areas so as to ensure the protection of humanitarian medical personnel, due protection for the wounded and the ill, humane treatment of detainees and the protection of civilians, particularly women and children.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“It is interesting that there was an excursus into history as to how the situation developed. We heard from the Mexican representatives, who made it seem as if we suddenly, unexpectedly, put it to a vote, whereas the initial sponsors of the draft — which we supported, on the whole, with the exception of the politicized passages — unexpectedly, without exhaustive consultations with members of the Council and specifically with us, advanced and submitted it to the General Assembly, after which we proposed our draft for the Council’s consideration. Let us look again at what actions and measures prevented our Western colleagues on the Security Council from agreeing to this for political reasons.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): At the outset, I wish to thank the countries that supported and co-sponsored draft resolution S/2022/231. The vote that took place has exposed all those for whom politicizing the humanitarian file is more important than helping the United Nations to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians in need. We heard today from some delegations, specifically the United States delegation, that they do not wish to engage in any way with the resolution proposed by the Russian Federation. If that is true, why did it abstain in the voting, when it could have voted against it. We all understand perfectly well the true motivations behind the abstention of the United States and its decision to not exercise the veto right, even though it could have done so.”
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“Should we continue to build cynical speculations around the issue of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine or adopt a draft resolution in the Security Council that will be an important practical step and an important framework for the efforts of humanitarian workers?”
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“We categorically reject the assertion that the Council cannot adopt a resolution on the Ukrainian humanitarian dossier. Today, we are submitting for a vote a draft resolution, based on the French-Mexican draft text, that is not politicized in any way. It is analogous to other humanitarian draft resolutions adopted by the Security Council. United Nations humanitarian representatives working on the ground would be very interested in such a document, because any General Assembly humanitarian resolution would make little difference for them. The choice is now up to my colleagues on the Security Council.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9002 (2022) · source