Harsh Statement By Russian Permanent Representative At UN Security Council Briefing On Ukraine

Mr. President,

It is symbolic that it is our British colleagues, who are presiding over the Security Council this month, who pushed through today’s meeting, timing it to coincide with the 1,000 days since the Ukrainian crisis reached the hot phase. Once again, we have had a wonderful opportunity to see that for you and your colleagues, Mr. Minister, this briefing is nothing but a flashy media event to vilify Russia and pin on it some hackneyed labels that predictably abounded in the statements by the Western members of the Council. In your country – in Great Britain – Russophobia has become part of the national policy long before February 2022.

Let me remind you that while preparing for today’s meeting, you missed another media occasion that has much more importance in the context of the Ukrainian crisis than the date you chose. Last Friday, November 15, marked exactly 950 days since the visit of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Kiev. That day – and we all know it for a fact today – he dissuaded the head of the Kiev regime from signing the peace agreement with Russia that had already been initialed in Istanbul, which would have stopped hostilities. At that time, we were very close to it. As a gesture of goodwill, Russia even withdrew its troops from the north of Ukraine, particularly from the areas in the immediate vicinity of Kiev.

In other words, 50 days after the beginning of our special military operation, when the losses in the ranks of the Ukrainian army were not so significant, the hostilities would have had every chance to stop, had it not been for the interference of the British Prime Minister, who convinced Zelensky that he should continue fighting and that with the Western weapons and support he could well inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. The British Prime Minister and his Western accomplices were very interested in such a scenario. Thus, in order to somehow explain such a turn to the Ukrainian and world public, an absolutely clumsy provocation was concocted in Bucha, with the direct involvement of the British security services and the media. Thus, after the withdrawal of the Russian army, corpses of people were brought to Bucha and arranged there in the streets; no one has ever bothered to explain the real cause of these people’s death, despite our repeated requests.

In other words, it appears that the UK has pushed the Kiev regime closer to its inevitable defeat, compelling it to opt for continued confrontation with Russia. I think Ukrainians will long remember the fact that it is due to these actions that their country has suffered economic disaster, has lost most of its army, military equipment and at least four regions, besides Crimea that seceded from Ukraine in 2014.

Ukrainians have long been unwilling to fight, for at least two years now there have been no volunteers in the Ukrainian army. The Kiev regime banned men from leaving the country, and is now grabbing draft evaders on the streets, including with the use of firearms, only to throw them (with almost no prior training) into a senseless meat grinder.

The eastern front of the Ukrainian army in Donbass is collapsing before our very eyes – you are well aware of the pace of our army’s advance. And seeking to retain Western support, the Zelensky regime undertook an absolutely reckless incursion into the Kursk region and attempted to capture and mine the Kursk nuclear power plant, which resulted in the Ukrainian army losing tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers. This misadventure was a fatal mistake and only accelerated Ukraine’s imminent defeat on the battlefield, which cannot be avoided whatever new Western weaponry Kiev receives.

As a matter of transparency, the initiators of today’s meeting should have shared with us the information regarding what fabulous profits the UK received during almost three years of military support for Ukraine, how your arms companies have enriched themselves on the blood and tragedy of ordinary Ukrainians, and how your defence ministry has safely disposed of old military equipment that in any case would have had to be disposed of. And it would also be good if you told us about the corruption intrinsic to these processes, the scale of the corruption is something we can only guess. Thus, according to the Ukrainian media, after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. elections, panic broke out among the Ukrainian elite. The panic was triggered not only by the fact that the US might revise its aid to Ukraine, but also because the new authorities might want to check all the money that was sent to Ukraine and conduct a full audit of the assistance already provided. This scenario, as all Ukrainian experts point out, is much more frightening for Zelensky, because a significant part of the aid has been simply plundered and misappropriated by the “expired” Ukrainian president and his entourage.

Just military aid provided by the UK to the Kiev junta since February 2022 has amounted to $9.7 billion. Given this, your country is undoubtedly making its contribution to growing corruption in Ukraine. However, we are unlikely to see any kind of investigations on the part of the British authorities, because in such cases it is very important for investigators not to end up accusing themselves.

Mr. President,

As a matter of fact, those who are familiar with the history of the United Kingdom are not a bit surprised at UK’s long-standing intervention in Ukraine which culminated in the actions we have mentioned before. After all, pitting neighbors against each other, sowing discord between nations and peoples, and then supporting one of the sides of artificially created conflicts is something the United Kingdom has relished to do for centuries, and is really good at – all your former colonies can tell you about it in colorful detail. By the way, out of the 193 UN members, only 22 states can boast that they have never been invaded by Great Britain or waged war with this country. And my country is no exception here, the last such invasion was the British intervention following the revolution of 1917, when various predators and vultures tried to tear Russia apart.

But we stood our ground, we went through the hardship, grew stronger and now we have to counter another indirect intervention by NATO members, including Great Britain, who are fighting against Russia in Ukraine. This is how we can view not only the continued pumping of the Kiev regime with weapons and intelligence, but also the presence of British instructors and mercenaries (hundreds of them have already been eliminated), as well as the attempts of British specialists to localize the production of drones, missiles and uncrewed boats in Ukraine.

We understand that even in the 21st century it is extremely difficult for the UK to leave Ukraine and Russia to themselves – it is the blood of those colonizers who rampaged in Asia, Africa and Europe for centuries that sets the tone for UK’s actions. We all know that for 250 years, the British Empire brutally and cynically suppressed the resistance of its colonies, resorted to forced assimilation and racial discrimination, forgetting about basic human values and the rights of the peoples under its control. It was the peaceful citizens of colonized countries who paid with their lives and freedom for the imperial ambitions of the colonial power.

It would suffice to recall at least the ethnic cleansing in Ireland, where after the British conquest remained only 850,000 people out of more than 1.5 million. And during the Second Boer War at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, it was the British who first invented concentration camps and drove civilians into them to make sure that they would not help the Boer army. How many people perished then? – nobody knows, because the British did not consider the indigenous population of Africa as human beings and did not document losses among Africans whatsoever. We do know though that in Kenya, after the Mau-Mau rebellion the British unleashed mass repressions, killing about 300 thousand representatives of this people and another 1,500,000 people were driven into camps and turned into slaves. India also suffered enormous damage during the period of British rule, whereby from 15 to 29 million people fell victim to famine engineered by Great Britain.

The consequences of the actions of former colonizers resonate in the modern world even today. Even though colonial empires are formally a thing of the past, the old methods – pressure, manipulation and interference in sovereign affairs – are still being used and simply have new forms. Britain is not an exception here, but rather a “trendsetter”. Thus, suffering from phantom pains, longing for the empire over which “the sun never sets” and feeling nostalgic for the lost dominance, Great Britain (along with its like-minded Franco-Saxon associates) resorts to blackmailing and sanctions, and overthrows unwanted regimes through “color revolutions”, with Ukraine being one of the victims of such revolutions in 2014.

And I’m saying this to show that you have no moral right to accuse and reproach my country, and will never have. We have set the goal of getting rid of the nationalist and neo-Nazi “hornet’s nest” on our borders. As long as the threats emanating from it, including the absorption of Ukraine by NATO, are not eliminated, as long as discrimination against the Russian-speaking people on the grounds of the language, faith and history is not stopped, as long as Ukraine does not stop whitewashing and glorifying Hitler’s accomplices, our special military operation will continue. Its goals will be implemented in any event – diplomatically or militarily – whatever peace plans and schemes are being developed in the West in the interests of saving the entertainment actor Zelensky and his clique. And we’ll achieve our goals regardless of the militaristic agony of the Democratic administration, which after its epic fail in the presidential elections, whereby it lost the trust of the most Americans, has issued (according to some media) suicidal “permission” to Zelensky’s regime to use long-range weapons to strike deep into Russia. Perhaps Joe Biden himself, for many reasons, has nothing left to lose, but what astonishes us is the short-sightedness of the UK and French leaders, who are rushing to play along with the outgoing administration and are dragging not only their own countries, but all of Europe into a full-scale escalation with drastic consequences. This is precisely what our former Western partners should think about before it is too late.

This is something that should be kept in mind also by those who have recently started talking about some kind of “freezing” of the frontline and by those who are trying to invent various schemes similar to the “Minsk agreements” rejected by Ukraine and its Western patrons. Do not waste your time, we no longer trust you, and we will only accept such a solution that will eradicate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis and will not allow anything like this to happen again. As for defeating Russia on the battlefield, I suggest that you should abandon this idea. Europe has already tried to do this many times, and you are perfectly aware of how it ended each time.

Thank you.

Source: Russiaun.ru

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