Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC: “Western officers and instructors sent to assist the Kiev regime are legitimate targets for the Russian army”

Zelenskyy meets with Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces Thierry Burkhard and Britain’s Chief of the Defense Staff Admiral Tony Radakin in Kyiv, Ukraine. April 05, 2025
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Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Ukraine.

8 April 2025

Main point:

“The formal reason for the European supporters of the Kiev regime to convene today's UNSC meeting was the April 4 strike by the Russian Armed Forces at a restaurant in Krivoi Rog. According to the reports by the Russian Ministry of Defense, a high-precision strike by a high-explosive missile was launched on the location where unit commanders met with their Western instructors, and resulted in the enemy's losses amounted to up to 85 servicemen and foreign officers, and about 20 vehicles.

There is no denying the fact that the operation did cause damage to the command of both the Ukrainian armed forces and a number of NATO armies that had sent their instructors to Ukraine. In this context, we would like to recall that we have warned on many occasions that troop concentrations as well as Western officers and instructors sent to assist the Kiev regime are legitimate targets for the Russian army.”

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