Russia says West willing to ‘plunge world into abyss’ to defeat Moscow
Russia’s UN ambassador has accused the West of being prepared to sacrifice Ukraine and the developing world in order to beat Russia and maintain global power.
“In this desire of theirs to defeat Russia in any way possible, they cannot just sacrifice Ukraine, they are ready to plunge the entire world into the abyss of war,” Vasily Nebenzya said in the UN General Assembly special meeting on Wednesday.
Nebenzya said it’s not Ukraine that is fighting Russia, but rather it is a collective West. He said the West is closing its eyes on “neo-Nazism in Ukraine”, and only Russophobia is growing.
“All decorum is set aside, and the goal is to inflict strategic defeat on my country. The US thinks the planet is their turf,” the Russian envoy said.
Friday will mark a year since Russia launched its special operation to “denazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine.
Nebenzya said the US and its European allies "are competing against each other in the number of sanctions that are imposed on my country, whereas these sanctions in actual fact are hitting the developing world hardest”.
During the session, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the war was “fanning regional instability and fueling global tensions and divisions, while diverting attention and resources from other crises and pressing global issues.”
More than 60 countries are scheduled to address the General Assembly later this week, which is expected to vote on a draft resolution stressing “the need to reach, as soon as possible, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine” in line with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
Nebenzya said Moscow is ready for a solution, but “the draft resolution submitted here will not help this at all".
"It will rather encourage the West, which will continue its militaristic line, using the UN as a cover,” he added.
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