Security Council approves special meeting of the General Assembly on Ukraine

United Nations Security Council agreed This Sunday, a resolution was passed to hold a special session of the General Assembly on the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

Eleven of the 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, Russia voted against it and three (including China) abstained. An extraordinary meeting is expected to be held within the next 24 hours.

In total, since the founding of the world organization, there have been 10 such sessions and it is stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations “whenever circumstances so require”. The last time it was implemented was in 1997 in relation to the Palestinian territories.

“Again we hear lies, deceit and forgery”

During his speech today at the fourth meeting of the Security Council this week, Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said, pointed out The Western media “blatantly” presents the attacks of the Ukrainian armed forces as “consequences” of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

The Russian diplomat confirmed that the Western representatives at the Security Council meeting on Sunday “They did not find a single word of sympathy for the people of Donbass«.

“In the end, it is the houses in Donbass destroyed by the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalists that are now brazenly considered by the Western media as the consequences of our military operation in Ukraine,” he declared.

Nebenzia said that humanitarian assistance to the Donbass residents is “long overdue, and The only country that did this was mainly Russia«.

He also noted that the uncontrolled distribution of weapons by the Ukrainian authorities to those who want them endangers the safety of the country’s residents. “Ukrainians are also threatened by the indiscriminate distribution of weapons by extremists and authorities to the whole world, including specially released criminals from prisons, who are already shooting in the hands of thieves and thieves,” he said.

The war on social media

He stated that allegations of indiscriminate use of force by Russia in the neighboring country and attacks on nurseries and hospitals are lies and lies. “Today, in this meeting, we hear again Lies and lies about the indiscriminate bombing of cities, hospitals and schools Ukrainian The Russian army does not threaten civilians in Ukraine, nor does it bomb civilians. The threat that surrounds them is that of the Ukrainian nationalists who have taken the Ukrainian population hostage and hid behind them as human shields.”

According to Nebenzia, currently on social media “is being launched Information war against Russia«. “Because there is no evidence of the Russian army’s destruction of civilian infrastructure, Ukrainian attacks and errant strikes, as well as photos and videos from Donbass that only record the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists, are shown as such,” he elaborated.

In addition, it was posted on social networks Tutorials on how to portray counterfeit products that discredit our military operation.

Currently, a total of 1.2 million such fakes are circulating on Ukrainian social networks. I urge our colleagues not to help spread such misinformation, though I fear these calls will go unheeded again.”

“Not even a glimpse of a constructive solution in the council.”

The Russian delegate also mentioned that the crisis in Ukraine began when the West ignored the crimes of the neo-Nazis, not a Russian operation. “Currently We have to focus on fixing the situation Which led us to the crisis we are going through. It began not with the launch of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, but much earlier: when for eight years I pretended not to notice the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists in the Donbass, ”he explained.

Nebenzia claimed that Russia He did not see “even a hint of trying to find a constructive solution in the council.” United Nations by Western countries.

He stressed that attempts to ignore and ignore Moscow’s position in the United Nations “contradict the foundations of the charter” of the world organization. “It is necessary not to impose such schemes, but it is necessary to search for common ground, no matter how much our Western partners try to prevent it,” he said.