OLHA HLUSHCHENKO — SATURDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2022, 02:12 

Vasilii Nebenzia, the Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, has announced that he left the UN Security Council meeting in order not to hear a speech by Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine.

Source: Ukrinform

Quote from Kyslytsya: "I am sorry that the Security Council is still forced to listen to this representative, because the only thing he did over almost eight months of the invasion was to tell one lie after another – at every meeting, about every aspect of an aggressive war that his master ordered in February."

Details: Kyslytsya, responding to Nebenzia’s leave, has expressed his hopes that Russia would not be a member of the UN Security Council at all soon, as it is unlawfully taking the place of the USSR as a permanent member of this body.

At the same time, Kyslytsya quoted the Russian Permanent Representative who assured that "the goal of Russia’s special military operation was not the occupation of Ukraine or harming the local population", and that Russia "was not affecting critically important civilian infrastructure."

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative has reminded the members of the Security Council that Ukrainian law enforcement bodies detected either damage or destruction of 51,412 civilian infrastructure facilities as a result of Russian targeted attacks, starting from 24 February.

Approximately 300 missile strikes and drone attacks on energy and other civilian infrastructure facilities have taken place from 10 October in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, and Donetsk oblasts, as Kyslytsya has pointed out. 

Almost 40% of energy facilities in Ukraine are either damaged or destroyed, he added. According to Kyslytsya, electricity stations, central heating points, transformers, oil storage points, switchgears, overhead power transmission lines, and other energy equipment throughout the country come under Russian fire almost every day. 

Kyslytsya has described these actions of the Kremlin regime as terrorism, based on the resolution on critical infrastructure defence from terrorist attacks, accepted in 2017. 

"This is an attempt to undermine our ability to fight. And russia is losing in this attempt. Fear of inevitable failure dominates in the minds of putin and his minions. Every bit of this regime is soaked in blood and crime."

Therefore, this is no surprise that Putin has chosen a person with a criminal record who "is known for his bloodlust and crime essence [Sergey Surovikin – ed.]" as a new commander of his army in Ukraine, the diplomat said.

Kyslytsya has also informed the members of the UN Security Council that the Russian troops are consciously preparing the ground for a large-scale environmental disaster in Ukraine’s south by mining a dam and units of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP).

According to him, an explosion at the KHPP can lead to destroying a water supply system of a major part of Ukraine’s south and leave the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant without water for cooling.

In order not to let this or other catastrophe happen, the world should respond preventively, Kyslytsya highlighted.

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