First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky. File photoUN, Mar 19Twitter has restored the previously blocked account of Russia's First Deputy Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky, the diplomat said on his Telegram channel.
"Less than 24 hours after Since I refused to delete the entry that the Twitter administration did not like and talked to the press about this, access to my account was restored, and without any notification in this regard. Looks like Twitter decided not to get involved this time around. Let's see how long it lasts", — wrote Polyansky.
Earlier, the diplomat said that Twitter blocked his account because of a post that exposed a fake about the alleged death of civilians from a Russian military strike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol. Twitter demanded to delete a tweet dated March 9, in which Polyansky informed that two days earlier, during a meeting of the Security Council, Russia warned that the maternity hospital in Mariupol, which was allegedly struck by Russian troops, causing casualties, was long before turned into a firing point by Ukrainian nationalists. According to Polyansky, Twitter considered that his tweet violated the rules prohibiting «participating in targeted harassment, inciting others to participate in it, including wishes for physical harm.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. because of the post about Mariupol