UNSCUN, 18 Feb. Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslytsya decided at a meeting of the UN Security Council switch to Russian, although he does not allow himself to do so in communication with journalists, and read out an excerpt from a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, in response to this, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Vershinin quoted Nikolai Zabolotsky's poems. On Thursday, a meeting of the UN Security Council was held on the problem of implementing the Minsk agreements. Russia pointed out that in seven years Ukraine has not fulfilled a single point of the set of measures to implement the Minsk agreements. Western representatives again accused Russia of allegedly preparing «aggression» against Ukraine, which the Russian Federation rejected many times. Kyslitsa in his speech decided to quote Yevtushenko's poems «Stalin's Heirs.»/As long as Stalin's heirs are still alive on earth, //It will seem to me that Stalin is still in the mausoleum,» he read out an excerpt in pure Russian. Vershinin did not ignore this moment and quoted Zabolotsky's poem «Ugly Girl.» poems, it's good when political messages are clothed in verses. I really love poems about the beauty of Nikolai Zabolotsky. Do you remember this quatrain? And if so, then what is beauty //And why do people deify it? //She is a vessel in which emptiness //Or fire flickering in a vessel?» — the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation recited. Vershinin compared beauty with wisdom. «We need to have wisdom, we need to make wise decisions. I am for this, as regards the settlement in the east of Ukraine on the basis of the Minsk package of measures,» the diplomat concluded.
The Deputy Foreign Minister revealed the difference between the status of Russia and Ukraine in the UN
