Ukraine’s ambassador to UN: "Russia has proven once again that it is a terrorist state"

OLHA HLUSHCHENKO – TUESDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2022, 00:51

At an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN, condemned Russia as a "terrorist state".

Source: Radio Svoboda, Kyslytsya on Facebook

Quote: "russia has proven once again that it is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways."

"... in the proposed International Organisation there should not be admitted nations professing doctrines of aggression and war, which are inclined to undermine or destroy the order of juridical peace in the world."

"Today, terrorist russia shelled the capital city of Kyiv and many other Ukrainian cities throughout the country with at least 84 missiles and two dozen UAVs. Energy facilities, residential buildings, schools and universities, museums and crossroads in the city centres were among the targets that the russian defence ministry later declared legitimate.

The entire world has once again seen the true face of the terrorist state that kills our people."

"russia now tries its best to bring us back to the 1930s, when Hitler destroyed sovereign nations by invasion, fake referenda and Anschluss. And we are now at a tipping point where the UN will either restore its credibility or it will ultimately undergo a final collapse."

Details: The U.N. General Assembly was set to meet on 10 October to discuss Russia's recent annexation of four occupied Ukrainian territories in violation of international law.

But the meeting mainly focused on condemning Russia's massive shelling of Ukraine on 10 October, which, according to the latest data, claimed the lives of 14 people and injured 97 more, as well as damaged civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, schools, playgrounds, and museums.

The 193-member UN General Assembly decided on 10 October to hold a public vote – not a secret ballot – on a draft resolution condemning Russia's "illegal so-called referenda" in the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts, and the "attempted illegal annexation".

Diplomats said the vote on the resolution would likely be on 12 October.

In September, Russia vetoed a similar resolution in the 15-member UN Security Council.

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