Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. File photoUN, Mar 24Russia regrets any victims of conflicts, any life is priceless, Vasily Nebenzya, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the organization, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. On Wednesday, the UN Security Council did not support the Russian draft humanitarian resolution on Ukraine, which called for a residents. A number of Western representatives argued their position by saying that the resolution does not recognize Moscow as the cause of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. British Permanent Representative to the UN Barbara Woodward, in particular, said that she would not vote for any resolution on Ukraine in the Security Council or in the General Assembly, if will not admit «that Russia is the sole cause of this humanitarian catastrophe and therefore the key to ending it.» At the same time, the Permanent Representative of Britain decided to quote one of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's open letters: «Still, it's time to remember that the first person to whom we belong is humanity.»
"We heard the representative of Great Britain remind us today that we are one human race. I agree with that. But, unfortunately, many countries, including the UK, did not mention this in other episodes", Nebenzya replied.
«I will not list them all. I think today is not the right time to quote someone «, he added.
Nebenzya urged Western colleagues not to politicize humanitarian issues. According to him, the Russian Federation regrets «any victims of conflicts, any human life is priceless.» about the mass deaths in conflicts of other civilians, including children,» he 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 Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. tell