A Ukrainian soldier in the village of Stoyanka, Ukraine. File photoUN, May 6. Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya called what is happening around Ukraine a proxy war of the collective West against Russia, which was preparing in advance for an economic war against Moscow. «Today is not a war in Ukraine, as you say. This is a proxy war of the collective West with Russia. You seemed to be just waiting for this moment to start the flywheel of repression against Russia,» Nebenzya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. We have no doubt that you were preparing for it, because the speed with which this flywheel was launched leaves no doubt that you were preparing for this in advance and long before, «he added .
