29 May 2025
Mr. President,
We would like to once again state for the record that we completely disagree with the presidency’s approach to inviting delegations to today’s meeting under rule 37 and 39. Besides Ukraine, there have been invited five more delegations, all of them are either members or allies of NATO and the EU. Time and again, these delegations spend at least half an hour of the Council’s precious time (which is also literally very expensive given the UN’s budget deficit) so as to simply read out the same narratives that have zero added value and are virtually identical to those of the EU representative. This is an unacceptable situation, which the presidency is entirely responsible for.
When presiding over the Security Council, the European nations appear to be simply incapable of placing the UNSC president’s obligation to act impartially above bloc solidarity. This undermines the Council’s credibility and degrade our discussions.
However, we expect the European delegations (especially those who largely sponsored the “pumping” of the Kiev regime with arms) to request to address the Security Council tomorrow at the briefing that we have convened to discuss what Europeans do to thwart the peace process around Ukraine. We have a lot of questions for them and we are waiting for answers.
Still, we have great doubts that the Europeans will summon the courage to come and give their answers, as they will have to do that not in the format of a staged EU-NATO “get-together”, where they feel comfortable and act according to the “scripts” agreed upon in Brussels, but rather in the format of interactive discussion and in the spotlight of the entire global community, which is what the UNSC discussion should really look like. However, our former European partners lost their strategic sovereignty long ago and are simply incapable of doing what I’ve just asked for.
Mr. President,
The script of today’s meeting is absolutely clear and predictable. Much like previous similar initiatives by our Western and, of late, European colleagues, this meeting is not geared either towards solving problems or bringing the Ukrainian crisis closer to a peaceful settlement. Instead, the goal is to prop up the image of a supposedly free and democratic Ukraine. Thus, Ukraine is portrayed as the victim of alleged “Russian aggression” with the European sponsors of the Kiev regime trying to keep this image afloat, as they began to shape it long before Russia started its special military operation in Ukraine. It is becoming more and more difficult for London, Paris, Berlin and their satellites to inflate this propaganda “bubble”, since it’s way too obvious now that what they have in Ukraine is nothing but a dictatorship and the Kiev expired princeling would stop at nothing to hold on to power, which he would lose if peace prevails.
What he fears most are the elections, since he and his sidekicks will have to explain themselves for failing to deliver on their promises to have peace with Russia, protect the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and respect the rights and freedoms of everyone in the country, which he himself has turned into a concentration camp and a meat grinder. In addition, as long as the bugbear of “Russian threat” persists, Zelensky’s clique can evade accounting for all the embezzled budget money and Western assistance (primarily provided by the US), which already amounts to tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. This is something that neither Zelensky’s henchmen in Europe and the Biden administration want – they profited handsomely from the Ukrainian conflict.
Therefore, the main objective of this bunch of hawks is to drag on the war for as long as possible and prevent the main stakeholder – the United States – from withdrawing from the Ukraine/anti-Russia geopolitical project. Yet, this is not that easy, since the new American administration has had its eyes opened in the past few months to see the true colors of Zelensky’s regime and the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict. The only thing those warmongers can do about this is resorting to any and all provocations and spreading any and all lies about Russia, its actions and plans.
And today, yet again in this chamber, they are trying to make us believe that Russia is deliberately shelling residential areas of Ukrainian cities. What they offer as evidence are the consequences of the operation of Ukrainian air defense stationed near homes and social facilities in violation of the basic IHL norms. At the same time, what is being hushed up is it the fact that our strikes target exclusively objects related to Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, and we are successfully destroying them or rendering them inoperable.
Over the last few days alone, we have hit ammunition depots in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a temporary deployment site and a storage facility for rocket-artillery weapons of a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Sumy region, as well as a temporary accommodation sites for foreign mercenaries near the town of Svyatogorsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and in the Kharkov region. Another strike hit a Ukrainian defense industry plant (Pavlograd Chemical Plant, Dnepropetrovsk region), and two Patriot anti-aircraft missile launchers were destroyed. A group rocket attack was carried out on an unloading site and a munition depot in the port of Odessa. It resulted in the destruction of some 100 containers with important components for uncrewed vessels, drones and ammunition.
Another fact that is being hushed up is that Russia is doing what I’ve just mentioned only in response to the massive and targeted shelling of peaceful Russian towns by the Kiev regime. Thus, despite the 72-hour ceasefire declared by Russia on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Victory over fascism, we recorded over 14,000 violations from May 8 to 11: more than 4,000 attacks from cannon artillery, tanks and mortars; 62 attacks using MLRSs; 9,900 strikes and releases of munition using UAVs. We also documented five attempts to break through the Russian State border in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, as well as 37 attacks waged by the Ukrainian armed forces.
During these three days of aggression, six Russian civilians were killed at the hands of Banderites, and at least 17 were wounded. What is remarkable here is that the most massive drone attacks on civilian objects in a number of Russian cities located far from the front line, including Moscow, were unleashed by the Kiev regime right after we saw nascent progress towards peace. Specifically, they waged these attacks after the resumption of direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul, which has set the course towards ending the conflict.
Between 8pm on May 20 and 8am on May 27, we intercepted and destroyed 2,331 UAVs launched from Ukraine, with 1,465 drones intercepted outside of the special military operation zone. Regrettably, these attacks caused civilian casualties and deaths, including among women and children.
On May 22, eight people were wounded as a result of an attack on the village of Panteleymonovka in the DNR. On the same day, drone strikes in Vasilyevka municipal district of the Zaporozhye Region killed a woman (she was born in 1990) and injured four children. The Ukrainian armed forces also launched two strikes with HIMARS missiles on civilian facilities in the town of Lgov in Kursk Oblast, where 16 people were injured, including two children.
Mr. President,
The plans concocted by Zelensky and his posse are way too plain and clear. Their task is to trick and mislead American President Donald Trump, who is taking decisive steps toward peace; they are ready to go to any lengths only to return the US – which has already wasted hundreds of billions of dollars helping Ukraine – to an anti-Russian and Russophobic course. At tomorrow’s briefing, we are going to discuss the methods and tactics they use to derail the peace efforts undertaken by the leaders of Russia, the United States and a number of other regional mediators – we have deliberately requested a meeting on this very topic, so we will not dwell on it now.
What I will say now is that promoting Ukrainian and Western lies about Russia is becoming increasingly difficult, since the actual steps of the Kiev regime, its deliberate choice in favor of war and further suffering of its citizens speak volumes. What is also clear and undeniable are peace initiatives and tangible steps on the part of the Russian leadership.
We intend to continue pursuing this course and are willing to proceed with the serious direct negotiations with Ukraine, which Ukraine itself suspended in April 2022 at the instigation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and like-minded Russophobes. This negotiation process should bring about such a solution that would definitively address the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict and the threats to the security of my country emanating from Ukraine. The Ukrainian side has been invited to meet in Istanbul on June 2 to discuss the content of our memoranda regarding approaches to the negotiation process.
As long as Kiev tries to prolong the war and provoke Russia by striking at residential and civilian infrastructure in our territory, we will continue our special military operation and we will continue destroying facilities having to do with the Kiev regime’s military capabilities. And neither new anti-Russian sanctions, nor arms supplies to Ukraine, nor other hostile steps vis-a-vis Russia will be able to prevent the inevitable military defeat of the Zelensky regime.
The ball is in Ukraine’s court: either talks followed by peace or imminent defeat on the battlefield with different conditions for ending the conflict.
Thank you.