Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. File photoUN, Mar 23 UN Security Council vote on Russia's humanitarian resolution calling for a negotiated ceasefire has brought to light Western representatives who politicize the humanitarian issue more important than aid to Ukrainians, said at a meeting of the Security Council UN Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. Earlier, only the Russian Federation and China voted for the Russian draft resolution, the other members of the Security Council abstained. The resolution was not adopted.
"The vote brought to light all those for whom the politicization of the humanitarian dossier is more important than UN assistance in providing humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians in need", said Nebenzia.
«We heard from some delegations, in particular from the US delegation, that they do not want to take any part in the resolution proposed by Russia. Why did you abstain in this case? You would vote against. We perfectly understand what the true motives for your abstention are not to use the right of veto , which otherwise you would have applied,» the permanent representative added. 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. UN resolutions