Read excerpts from the statement by Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE M.Buyakevich (meeting of the OSCE PC, 23.05.2024)
On increasing military involvement of certain NATO and EU member States in yet more confrontation in and around Ukraine
The Kiev regime's armed formations continue their targeted attacks against civilians: last week, over 135 citizens were injured from shelling, of which 20 people were killed (including a child) and 115 were injured, including seven minors. We are outraged by the lack of condemnation by the OSCE leadership of such cases of violation of international humanitarian law
Western sponsors of the Kiev regime pursue a strategy of prolonging the armed confrontation in and around Ukraine in an attempt to weaken Russia. However, in Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria, voices are already being heard from officials stating that the West’s strategy in Ukraine is wrongful, and Russia has not been overcome either by economic or military measures elaborated in the capitals of NATO and EU member States
After legislative measures to force mobilization in Ukraine were enacted on May 18, the risk of shutting down municipal utilities and critical infrastructure enterprises was announced by a number of municipal authorities. The reason is the forced mobilization of men of various professional qualifications
The problem of neo-Nazism as the ideological basis of the Kiev regime, as well as the presence of right-wing radicals within the Ukrainian armed formations is deliberately being silenced in the West. However, in May, the federal government of Germany officially admitted: the #Kievregime had sent to Germany for training such soldiers, who were later sent back to Ukraine because of propagating right-wing ideas. Moreover, special courses are being held in Germany to identify neo-Nazi symbolics among Ukrainian fighters
Convening the conference on Ukraine planned for June in Switzerland makes no practical sense: It is being organized without Russia and does not take into account the security interests of our country. Any decisions elaborated there will have no prospects. This is well understood by the countries of the so-called «global South», which are very skeptical about participating in this gathering