Dmitry Polyanskiy: “Support for the anti-national Ukrainian government, which has thrown its people on the altar of Western geopolitical interests, is rapidly declining”

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Statement by Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Federation Dmitry Polyanskiy at UNSC briefing on Western arms deliveries to Ukraine. Main points:

- To briefly characterize the situation in Ukraine, everything is unfolding exactly as we have been predicting for many months now. Support for the anti-national Ukrainian government, which has thrown its people on the altar of Western geopolitical interests, is rapidly declining. It drops to such miniscule values that even Ukrainian media are embarrassed to write about.

- The Ukrainian regime, like a dying drug addict, survives only thanks to Western financial handouts, much of which are immediately plundered, and Western arms supplies, which have no significant impact on the battlefield. After all, Internet is swarming with images of burning Western equipment. These supplies are only delaying the imminent collapse of the current criminal, anti-people, corruption-ridden Kiev authorities.

- It is not exactly about having or not having weapons and ammunition. Back in June 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba, whom we have often received in this chamber, promised that if there were no Western weapons, Ukrainians would fight with shovels. It is about the deceived Ukrainians not wanting to fight. The people know about absolutely senseless “meat assaults”, about the fact that new recruits and even disabled people are sent to the front line without any training and without their consent. As we learned recently, even underage orphans are conscripted. The whole country remembers Zelensky's false promises that Ukrainians "will not be made to fight under compulsion" and sees what really happens. And that is, man-hunt on Ukrainians with chases and beatings; raids on gyms and clubs; draft officers searching public transit or simply storming into apartment buildings looking for more "cannon fodder".

- According to confessions of members of Ukrainian military, which were recently published by Western media, the average life expectancy of such conscripts on the front line is 48 hours. At the same time, draft officers readily take bribes from anyone who is able to give, and the children of Ukrainian officials and MPs spend their time abroad, sometimes without even bothering to pretend to be refugees. It is not surprising that under such conditions, military recruitment offices in most regions of Ukraine have their conscription plans fulfilled by less than 10 per cent. Western mercenaries, frightened by the huge losses and the absolutely beastly conditions of service that are offered to them, have also started to go home en masse.

- The rapidly growing reluctance of Ukrainians to fight can also be explained by the fact that many of them begin to realize that Russia is not really their enemy or an aggressor country, as the leaders of the Kiev regime have been saying for years. Since the beginning of the war in Donbas, more than 5 million residents of Ukraine have taken refuge in Russia. They actively share their positive experiences on social media. Besides, many people have had their eyes opened after criminal attempts of the Kiev junta to ban the canonical Orthodox Church, persecute its clergy and parishioners, and confiscate church property in favor of a schismatic, political in essence, pseudo-religious organization.

- I would like to ask our Western colleagues, whom we will certainly hear chanting yet again today that they are ready to help Ukraine until the end. Who are you going to supply arms and ammunition to, if fewer and fewer Ukrainians are ready to die for the anti-people regime of Zelensky? May I remind you that no matter how many weapons the Ukrainian dictator asks for while he tours the United States with a begging bowl in hand, all of them will be either ground up by the Russian troops on the battlefield or simply abandoned. This is already recognized by leading Western military experts. And this will in no way affect the fulfillment of the goals of our special military operation that Russia launched to save the lives of the inhabitants of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which is demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.

- Let me also underscore how unsightly your actions appear. In order to convince American congressmen of the need to allocate more aid to Zelensky and his clique, US officials finally dropped their masks and discarded all the unnecessary, as it turns out, verbal husks such as democracy, freedom, human rights, etc. They finally told the truth, which we had warned about from the very beginning, namely: military aid to Ukraine is a profitable commercial project for the US, and 90% of the allocated funds are spent in the US to create jobs, increase tax revenues and contribute to the re-equipment of the US military and allies through the disposal of obsolete military equipment in Ukraine. This is exactly how this case is being cynically presented now. All our colleagues in the United Nations who have been following this story now can see it for themselves. And they can make sure that in this whole situation, there is no benefit and no positive scenario for Ukraine, which, just as we warned, turned out to be a bargaining chip in someone else's geopolitical game.

- Now I sum up the current situation once again – for the representative of the United States. So, the US authorities pump billions of dollars into a corruption-ridden dictatorship, supplying it with weapons (including enriched uranium shells and cluster munitions, the use of which affects civilians) and yet they do not stir a finger to release an American citizen in deadly danger who is being tortured in that country. Don’t you find any of it confusing? I think you must agree that it sounds very much like a plot from a Hollywood action movie, in the finale of which the good and just forces must intervene to right some wrongs. Except that life is not a movie, and in real life, villains may lecture others and teach democracy and human rights.

- Nevertheless, I can assure you that this story is also bound to have an ending soon enough, which you and others who favor Zelensky's regime are not going to like, but which will come anyways whether you like it or not. You have worked hard for this ending and so you deserve it just the way it is going to be. I advise you to prepare for it and draw the necessary conclusions as soon as possible, before the sinking Kiev regime pulls you down the vortex.

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