Read excerpts from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich (meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, 2 February 2023)
On the ongoing crimes by the Kiev regime and dangerous policies of the western alliance to exacerbate tensions
On the morning of January 28, V. Zelensky's armed formations launched a missile attack from the American HIMARS MLRS on a hospital in the Russian city of Novoaydar (LPR). 14 people killed, 24 injured. The US representatives, whose govt. supplied the HIMARS systems and helps with targeting, seem to be satisfied with this
The fate of people dying under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not bother Washington: apparently, for the U.S. those people don’t exist. The Investigative Committee of Russia carefully records all such crimes, the perpetrators will be held accountable
The escalation of the situation in Ukraine is used by Western politicians to divert attention from their internal political problems. The sharper the problems are, the louder sound their statements about the need to flood Ukraine with western weapons
The West does not want to see the true reasons for their current difficulties, namely the deliberate crash of traditional economic ties with Russia. For example, sabotage acts on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea: overseas beneficiaries of those acts do not hide their satisfaction
It is surprising how easily the German authorities get rid of the basis of their country's sustainable economic development, as well as of the foundations of the reunified Germany
In 1989-1990, our country and its people supported the German unity and withdrew troops from the GDR and Eastern Europe, while the United States, on the contrary, extended its de facto military occupation to the entire reunified Germany and far beyond its borders, approaching to Russian borders under the NATO umbrella
Today we are witnessing German Foreign Minister A.Baerbock declaring that her country is “fighting a war against Russia”, and the German government is sending tanks to Ukraine for killings of Russians and Ukrainians
Long before the Russian special operation started, the NATO defined Russia in its doctrines as the “main threat” and a potential military adversary - so it began to prepare the military component of hybrid aggression against Russia and its neighbors
Once again, we warn against attempts by certain Western countries to provoke a large-scale conflict on the European continent. Further military supplies to the Kiev regime is a way towards uncontrolled escalation
Russia will continue to defend its legitimate interests and protect its people by all available means. The goals of the Russian special operation remain unchanged and will be achieved through diplomatic efforts or through the development of the situation on the ground
For the U.S. and the Western bloc led by it, the results of the current military-political conflict are existential in nature: their defeat in Ukraine will sharply accelerate the chain reaction, collapse of the “house of cards” of Washington’s neo-colonial domination
For Russia, the plans of Western puppeteers in Ukraine pose a mortal threat. Its reality is confirmed by the categorical refusal of the West to even consider legitimate Russian security interests seriously