Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
New York, SANA- Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, stressed that the Russian army does not target civilians or infrastructure in Ukraine, as the Western propaganda claims.
Nebenzia’s remarks came in a speech during a session of the UN Security Council last night.
He noted that the population of Ukraine is threatened by the indiscriminate distribution of weapons by the extremist authorities to criminals and thieves who have been deliberately released from prisons.
Nebenzia said that the extremist nationalists place heavy artillery in residential areas and use air defences between the buildings, stressing that the Russian army does not target hospitals and schools and does not threaten the lives of civilians, because the real threat facing them comes from these nationalist extremists who are taking the population hostage and hiding behind them and using them as human shields.
He added that social networks are expert in publishing such fabricated and untrue news, with thousands of them being circulated.
He indicated that the crisis did not start at the beginning of the Russian military operation, but rather 8 years ago, when the West did not pay attention to Russia’s security concerns and did not try to settle the situation in Ukraine within the Security Council.
The Russian diplomat stressed that any attempt to circumvent the position of a Russian Federation, any attempt to disregard it, undermines the very bedrock of the U.N. Charter.”
Ruaa Jazaeri
