Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. File photoUN, Jun 2The West is committing a war crime by flooding Ukraine with weapons, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting. According to the Ukrainian punishers, using these weapons, they continue shelling the peaceful quarters of Donbass, as they have been doing for all 8 years, killing women, the elderly and children. «For example, the United States supplied British long-range M-777 howitzers to Ukraine. children from shells from this gun killed 5 people in Donetsk Makiivka, including a 5-year-old girl Mira,» Nebenzya said. The United States also announced plans to supply Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems, Nebenzya recalled. «This will only lead to a further escalation of the conflict, which Washington hypocritically claims to want to end as soon as possible. The ICC should also be aware of this, of course, if this structure is in principle interested in justice issues,» the permanent representative said. Earlier, the United States announced an agreement deliveries of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine, provided that they will not be used to deliver strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation. Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly confirmed that Kyiv will comply with this requirement. At the same time, Yegor Chernev, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, did not rule out strikes by US-supplied missiles on Russian territory.Nebenzya believes that the United States will keep Assange in prison until the end of his daysPress Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the words of Vladimir Zelensky about the non-use of weapons supplied by the United States against the Russian Federation, said that Russia does not have a credit of confidence in the Ukrainian side, since Zelensky did not comply not one of its promises for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
