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Tsybulska

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  1. “We know the names of those who fed hatred to a huge nation, in return for generous compensation from the Russian State budget. As a result, my country is flooded with blood and tears. Let us not let these people avoid responsibility, together with the rest of the Russian leadership, which should be brought to justice. Let us avoid the trap of the banality of evil when criminals claim that they only obeyed orders. Unpunished evil returns. Let us finally punish it and protect millions of free people in Ukraine and across the world.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  2. “It did not reflect the bloody revolution at the beginning of the last century. It did not reflect Stalinism, purges, deportations, murders and persecutions of journalists, activists and politicians, the invasion of Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17. That is why Russia is committing these crimes with impunity, over and over again. It is now extremely important for us to study the connection between what Russian propaganda has been saying all these years and the mass atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. However, we must not only study, but hold accountable those who have been inciting hatred and spreading genocidal rhetoric all this time. It was systematic propaganda that enabled the genocide, with specific people behind it. This is not a mythical formation with no faces.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  3. “After all, in recent years, the Russian State media machine has also created an enemy image of the Western countries. Russian State media speaks of the erosion of moral values, of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s aggressive intentions towards Russia, and it imposes on Russian citizens the view that Russia has the historical right to bring order to the West. There are already many victims of this war. It is unlikely that we will ever be able to count them accurately. But there will be more, much more, if we do not stop Russia and do not do everything possible to make the Russians understand their mistake. If this process of bringing them back to humanistic values does not happen, as it did in Germany, Russia will do it again. Russia has never reflected on its crimes in the telling of its history.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  4. “The Kremlin has been saying for years that Ukrainians are Nazis, that Russia protects Russian speakers — liberating them from the Nazis. However, it turns out that the Kremlin does not care about Russian speakers. It kills them with the same fury as everyone else. Thousands in the mass graves in Mariupol spoke Russian. Russia liberated them from only one thing — life. Russian officials like to say that all these crimes are staged and that there is no evidence. I have to disappoint them. Thousands of pieces of evidence of Russian war crimes have already been collected and continue to be collected. Russia does not follow any rules of war. And the whole world sees it. It is very important to understand that this threat exists not only for Ukrainians; it is a threat to the entire Western world.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  5. “The world’s largest country, with a population of 140 million people, has begun to profess extremely chauvinistic, nationalist and racist beliefs. We have seen similar events play out in the history of humankind. We know the terrible consequences it can lead to. For years, we repeated “never again”, yet this horror is happening again right in the heart of Europe. Russia is no longer authoritarian. It is a totalitarian State in which the regime has given a green light to its citizens to be as cruel as possible. It gave them permission to kill, torture and rape. That permission was delivered through the media, through televisions and smart phones. Ordinary Russians, who were then sent to Ukraine to fight, were turned into murderers and rapists, and millions of Russians back home were allowed to cheer and applaud those actions.”

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  6. “You cannot repair this construct. It has to be destroyed, as it is anti-Russia, an entity that threatens Russia.” Another well-known figure in Russia media, Anton Krasovsky, who led the RT television channel said: “This country should not exist. And we will do everything so that it does not exist. We will burn down your Constitution.” Finally, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, also posted recently on his Telegram channel that “if we do not kill them — Ukrainians — as our grandfathers did not kill them, we will have to die, but our grandchildren will have to pay even more. So let us better end it now.” Colonialism became a mindset for the Russian people, one in which there is no room for democracy, human rights and freedom. The world missed that very dangerous processes have begun to unfold in Russia.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  7. “In an article from 4 April published by Russia’s State-run RIA Novosti news agency, pro-Kremlin journalist Timofey Sergeytsev called for the destruction of Ukraine’s national identity and a campaign of brutal punishment of its people. He called for imprisonment, forced labour and death for Ukrainians who refused to comply with the Kremlin’s rule in Ukraine. On 5 April, Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian Prime Minister and President, currently Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, described Ukraine as a completely fake nation and a copy of the Third Reich that does not deserve to exist. He then went even further and proposed to expand Russia from Lisbon to Vladivostok. On the programme of the well-known propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, one of the guests stated the following: “Ukraine cannot be repaired.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  8. “The Kremlin’s media created an alternative reality for millions of people, in which Ukrainians have ceased to be human beings and must be physically exterminated on a massive scale. All these years, Russian propaganda has been systematically spreading hatred towards Ukraine and the West, systematically dehumanizing us. It denies the existence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian language and culture. In some cases, Russian soldiers explicitly justified their violence against civilians by referring to programmes and articles they saw in the Russian media. There is a lot of evidence for genocidal rhetoric. My colleagues and I started a database to show the longevity and systematic nature of the demonization of Ukrainians. Here are just a few examples.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  9. “They have begun to show pride and approval. Many people think that those are isolated cases. However, in addition to what we saw online, in addition to opinion polls showing full support for the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine by Russians, we also listen to interceptions — conversations between Russian soldiers and their families. Here are just a few quotes. From a conversation between a Russian soldier and his wife, we intercepted: “You there, rape Ukrainian women and do not tell me anything.” And from a conversation between a Russian soldier and his mother, we intercepted: “It is right that you kill them all. They are all Nazis. And children too.” These are the consequences of the consistent work of the Russian propaganda machine.”

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  10. “Why do they hate us so much?” And then the whole of society united in a single effort to tell the truth to so-called ordinary Russians. We would send them photos and videos en masse of the atrocities committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. We would call our acquaintances and relatives in Russia to explain the horrors of the war, hoping to arouse their sympathy. We thought that when the Russians saw all of the atrocities, they would surely condemn such lawlessness. Instead, we saw a total absence of any compassion. There was no compassion for the one-year-old boy from the city of Izium who died after being raped by two Russian soldiers simultaneously, or for the 16-year-old girl from Irpin whose nails were torn off by Russians before she was raped and shot in the head. The majority of Russians have not condemned those war crimes.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  11. “We Ukrainians have seen all of those terrible crimes more than once, whether in relation to us, the Crimean Tatars, the Baltic peoples, the Poles, the Chechens or others. That is the modus operandi of the Kremlin. However, the current war is extraordinary for its inhuman cruelty. It exhibits the brutality of medieval wars, with bombings of maternity hospitals and even cemeteries; deliberate attacks on shelters and evacuation routes; the rape of women, men and children; and the mass murder of unarmed civilians, all of which everyone has certainly seen in the media. The Russian army has demonstrated barbarity that is difficult to imagine in the twenty-first century. As soon as the full-scale invasion began, Ukrainians everywhere asked just one question: “Why?”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source

  12. “According to Moscow, the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian art should not have existed. That is exactly what is happening now. Russian teachers have forbidden children in Mariupol, Kherson and Melitopol to speak Ukrainian. Ukrainian libraries and museums are being destroyed with ostentatious brutality. I should not fail to mention the mass deportations in the 1960s and 1970s of Ukrainian dissidents, who were forcibly sent to the farthest corners of the Soviet Union, where they died in intolerable living conditions in labour camps. Again, deportations are exactly what is happening now. In the space of just a few months, more than 1 million people have been deported from eastern and southern Ukraine to Russia, 307,000 of them children.”

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  13. “Ukraine’s history has been one of continued struggle for survival and independence against Russia’s attempts to conquer us, not to mention its infliction on us of the Holodomor — a mass famine in which the Soviets killed at least 4 million Ukrainians by deliberately depriving them of food — during which the regime housed citizens of Soviet Russia in the homes of people who had just starved to death. Their homes were literally still full of the warmth of their lives when the new owners moved in. That is exactly what is happening now. Russia has brought famine to our land and is blackmailing the entire world with a food crisis. In the 1920s and 1930s, Ukrainian writers, artists and poets were tortured and murdered during a period that has gone down in Ukrainian history as the Executed Renaissance.”

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  14. “Ms. Tsybulska: I thank you, Sir, for the opportunity to speak at this important meeting on behalf of civil society, which, like my Government and, above all, our brave armed forces, is now defending Ukraine from Russia’s barbaric aggression. Ukraine is going through the most difficult period in its history. The largest war since the Second World War has been going on in Europe. Russia wants to destroy Ukraine literally, by killing and raping, but also in a broader sense by eliminating our culture, language and history — basically everything that shapes our identity. Russia has demonstrated an imperial appetite for hundreds of years.”

    2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source