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Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine
https://russiaun.ru/en/news/290322u_n
Excerpt:
Mme.President,
We thank our briefers. Today we heard many (and will definitely hear more) calls to a humanitarian ceasefire, ensuring humanitarian access, establishing humanitarian pauses, and opening humanitarian corridors. Secretary-General of the United Nations raised such initiatives yesterday. Colleagues, you are strikingly inconsistent. Last Wednesday, no more than a week ago, most of you rejected our draft humanitarian UNSC resolution, binding for all sides, that contained a list of concrete steps that should unblock the work of humanitarian agencies, first of all in eastern Ukraine. So today’s statements, especially that of Western delegations, sound rather hypocritical.
I must say however that our proposals went far beyond what our Western colleagues named today. Our draft also contained demands to not place heavy weapons in residential areas, not use civilians as a cover-up. Had the Council endorsed it, it could have saved many lives, because the main threat to peaceful population of Ukrainian towns and cities comes from Ukrainian radicals and nationalists who use them as a human shield. Internet is swarming with video evidence of this, uploaded by people from the liberated cities or those who managed to escape via humanitarian corridors despite being shot at by Ukrainian armed forces and nationalists. Have you seen those footages? And then you tell us how we allegedly bomb grain-loaded vessels, agricultural equipment, and grain storages.
Our draft resolution also demanded respectful and humane treatment of detainees – that’s because Ukrainian nationalists posted videos of cruel treatment of captured Russian soldiers. What about those footages? Have you seen them? They do this despite the fact that Russian side fully upholds its international obligations and poses no threat to those Ukrainians who lay down their arms. You can also make sure of that by turning to materials posted on social media.
Ukrainian nationalists do not hesitate to use most elaborate tortures and executions. Suffice it to mention the shocking findings – civilians tortured to death in cellars of nationalist battalions, with swastika symbols branded on their maimed bodies. Have you seen these footages?
In the context of such cruel treatment of Ukrainians by Ukrainian radicals and special services, we have grave concerns regarding physical cleansing of unwanted public opinion leaders that the Kiev regime carries out at the moment.
In our letter of 21 March, we officially informed the Security Council about Ukraine’s Security Service kidnapping civil activist Elena Berezhnaya, who had taken part in UNSC meetings on several occasions. We know nothing of her fate or whereabouts.
Since then, we have received similar reports regarding Ukrainian opposition politician, leader of the Union of Leftists Vasyl Volha, political scientist Dmitry Dzhangirov, opposition political analyst Yuri Dudkin, journalist and publicist Dmitry Skvortsov, historian and public activist Alexander Karevin, publicist and TV-host Yan Taksyur, chief editor of Odessa-based online platform “Timer” Yuri Tkachev.
Ukraine’s Security Service also carried out a search at the house of another political scientist, who is well-known to the Security Council, named Mikhail Pogrebinskiy. We have no information as to what happens to him now. We expect our Western colleagues and specialized human rights agencies of the UN and OSCE to give fair assessments to this “witch hunt”.
This list of problems caused by Kiev is expanding. There is an increased danger of floating Ukrainian mines at sea. Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey have already faced or are about to face this perilous problem. In this context, let me underscore that Russian armed forces pose no threat to freedom of civil navigation. To facilitate foreign vessels taking to the open sea from Ukrainian ports, we have created a humanitarian corridor. It is 80 nautical miles long, 3 nautical miles wide, and open daily from 08.00 am to 07.00 pm Moscow time. We have communicated this information to all interested sides.
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Batalioanele naționaliștilor înregistrează videoclipuri înscenate despre presupuse crime comise…
Nationalist battalions record staged videos of alleged crimes…
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