The US ambassador to the United Nations has said that there should no longer be any doubt that Russia intends to dismantle Ukraine 바카라and dissolve it from the world map entirely바카라.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council on Friday that the US is seeing growing signs that Russia is laying the groundwork to attempt to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, including by installing 바카라illegitimate proxy officials in Russian-held areas, with the goal of holding sham referenda or decree to join Russia바카라.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov 바카라has even stated that this is Russia's war aim바카라, she said. Lavrov told an Arab summit in Cairo on Sunday that Moscow's overarching goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its 바카라unacceptable regime바카라.
Apparently suggesting that Moscow's war aims extend beyond Ukraine's industrial Donbas region in the east comprising Donetsk and Luhansk, Lavrov said: 바카라We will certainly help the Ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and anti-historical.바카라
Russia's deputy UN ambassador Dmitry Polyansky told the Security Council on Friday that 바카라The de-Nazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine will be carried out in full바카라.
바카라There must no longer be a threat from this stage to Donbas, nor to Russia, nor to the liberated Ukrainian territories where for the first time in several years people are finally able to feel that they can live the way they want,바카라 he said.
Polyansky also warned Western nations supplying long-range artillery and MLRS surface-to-surface rockets that they were shifting 바카라the provisional security line바카라 further toward the west, 바카라and in so doing clarifying even further the aims and objectives of our special military operation.바카라
Thomas-Greenfield went after countries that say 바카라one country's security should not come at the expense of another's", asking what they call Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She didn't name any country but this is a view China has repeated frequently, including on Friday by its deputy UN ambassador Geng Shuang.
He told the council, 바카라Putting one's own security above that of others, attempting to strengthen military blocs, establishing absolute superiority ... will only lead to conflict and confrontation, divide the international community and make themselves less secure".
The US ambassador also went after nations that call for all countries to embrace diplomacy without naming Russia, saying: 바카라Let us be clear: Russia's ongoing actions are the obstacle to a resolution to this crisis.바카라
Again she named no countries but a significant number of nations in Africa, Asia and the Mideast take this approach.
Thomas-Greenfield cited evidence of mounting atrocities including the reported bombings of schools and hospitals, 바카라the killing of aid workers and journalists, the targeting of civilians attempting to flee, the brutal execution-style murder of those going about their daily business in Bucha바카라, the suburb of Ukraine's capital Kyiv where local authorities said hundreds of people were killed during its occupation by Russian forces.
She said there is evidence Russia forces 바카라have interrogated, detained forcibly, deported an estimated hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children -- tearing them from their homes and sending them to remote regions in the east바카라.
Nearly two million Ukrainians refugees have been sent to Russia, according to both Ukrainian and Russian officials.
Ukraine portrays these journeys as forced transfers to enemy soil, which is considered a war crime. Russia calls them humanitarian evacuations of war victims who already speak Russian and are grateful for a new home.
A recent Associated Press investigation based on dozens of interviews has found that while the situation is more nuanced that the Ukrainians suggest, many refugees are indeed forced to embark on a surreal trip into Russia, subjected along the way to human rights abuses, stripped of documents and left confused and lost about where they are.
Those who leave go through a series of what are known as filtration points, where treatment ranges from interrogation and strip searches to being yanked aside and never seen again.
바카라The US has information that officials from Russia's presidential administration are overseeing and coordinating filtration operations,바카라 Thomas-Greenfield told the council.
Polyansky countered that despite Ukraine's efforts at intimidation of their citizens 바카라people are choosing the country that they trust바카라 -- Russia.
He warned that heavy weapons being poured into Ukraine by the West 바카라will spill over into Europe바카라 because of what he claimed is 바카라the flourishing corruption among Ukraine's political and military leadership바카라.
Polyansky said Western weapons are only 바카라dragging out the agony and increasing the suffering of the Ukrainian people바카라.
Addressing Western ambassadors, he said: 바카라The aims of our special military operation will be achieved either way, however much fuel you pour into the fire in the form of weapons.바카라
