Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is not going well. At a UN meeting, Russia rejected the claim that modern weapons supplied by the West could help Ukraine win the war as “fantasy”, insisting that Russian forces are destroying Ukraine’s old and new weapons. The U.S. has lashed out at Russia for “brazenly blaming other countries for refusing to budge while trying to destroy another UN member state”. The Biden administration said it was committed to supporting the Ukrainian people as they “defend their lives, liberties and democracy”.
The dispute between the United States and Russia came at the third consecutive meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine, which held a meeting on the 6th at the request of Russia to hear the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of shelling nuclear power plants and threatened a possible nuclear disaster. At the request of the United States and Albania on the 7th, the Security Council discussed Russia’s forcible deportation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to Russia.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, called the meeting on Tuesday, claiming that the supply of arms and military supplies to Ukraine by foreign governments poses a threat to peace. He told the Council that even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his “followers” claimed that Western weapons and a so-called “turnaround” would change the course of the six-month conflict and bring victory to Ukraine, the The end was “very sad for Ukraine”.
Nebanzia stressed that “we are still very far from the end of this war”, noting that “no matter what the Ukrainians and their vassals say, Western weapons and equipment did not play a decisive role on the battlefield.” Proclaimed: “The Russian military has consistently performed, at the least cost, destroying not only the old Soviet weapons that the Eastern European countries are delivering, but also the modern weapons of NATO.” Vladimir Putin’s wishes “completed”.
Nebanzia admits that “several small villages have been occupied” recently, leading Western media to accuse Ukraine of fighting back, but most military experts agree that the new weapons will not change the balance of power and will only prolong “Zelensky”. Pain of the regime”. He also attacked that a “significant portion” of Western weapons fell into the hands of smugglers and could end up in the hands of terrorists in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Deputy US Ambassador Richard Mills pointed out that the meeting on the 8th highlighted Russia’s “clear attempt” to divert attention from the meeting on the 7th, which called attention to the forcibly displaced Ukrainians. The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights has also stated that her office’s reports on torture are linked to Russia’s “abhorrent use of ‘filter camps'”.
At the same time, Russian state TV broadcast an interview on the 8th, acknowledging that Kyiv had achieved a “major victory”. Prior to this, the Ukrainian army advanced at a blitz-like speed on the Ukrainian front, breaking through the Russian defense line. “The situation is now quite dire. The fact that our defenses have been breached is in itself a major victory for the Ukrainian armed forces,” said Vitaliy Hanchev, the Russian-appointed administrator of Kharkiv.
Western military experts have analyzed that the advancement of the Ukrainian army has brought the main railway that Moscow relies on to transport supplies for the Ukrainian and Eastern Russian forces into the attack range, which may put thousands of Russian troops at risk of being cut off from supply lines. According to the Institute for the Study of War, a think-tank, the Ukrainian army is less than 15 kilometers from Kupyansk. This is the junction of the main railway lines that Moscow relies on to provide supplies to the Russian troops in various battlefields in eastern Ukraine.
The United States announced on the 8th that it plans to provide $2.2 billion in long-term military aid to Ukraine and 18 other European countries threatened by Russian aggression, as well as a new $675 million direct military aid package to the Kyiv government, including those needed to fight the Moscow invasion. of ammunition. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a press conference held with the Czech Defense Minister in Prague, the Czech capital, that Ukraine has regained a lot of lost ground again: “This is very, very inspiring.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg described the Ukrainian-Russian war as having reached a “critical stage”. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said bluntly: “The initial indications are that Ukraine is on track and making considerable progress, but the war is likely to continue for a long time.”
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is not going well. At a UN meeting, Russia rejected the claim that modern weapons supplied by the West could help Ukraine win the war as “fantasy”, insisting that Russian forces are destroying Ukraine’s old and new weapons. The U.S. has lashed out at Russia for “brazenly blaming other countries for refusing to budge while trying to destroy another UN member state”. The Biden administration said it was committed to supporting the Ukrainian people as they “defend their lives, liberties and democracy”.
Russia’s UN ambassador, Nebanzia Nebanzia, called the meeting on the 8th, claiming that the supply of arms and military supplies to Ukraine by foreign governments poses a threat to peace. He told the Council that even if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his “followers” claimed that Western weapons and the so-called “turnaround of the war” would change the course of the six-month conflict and bring victory to Ukraine, the fate of these people ” Very sad for Ukraine”. “We are very far from the end of this war,” stressed Nebanzia, claiming that “no matter what the Ukrainians and their vassals say, Western armament does not play a decisive role on the battlefield.” And declared: “The Russian army has always performed consistently, destroying not only the old Soviet weapons, but also the modern weapons of NATO, which were being delivered by the Eastern European countries, at the least cost.” Finish”.
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Nebanzia. Photo: the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (file photo)