00:00We congratulate Colombia on its presidency of the Council this month.
00:05We wish you every success, and we thank the People's Republic of China for their impeccable presidency.
00:13Madam President, we note that Romania has hastily convened this meeting
00:18and immediately put forward unfounded and biased accusations against Russia.
00:23We believe that the main purpose of today's meeting is to satisfy demand by Western countries
00:29to generate yet another wave of anti-Russian media hype at any cost.
00:38In that regard, we would like to present an objective version of the event,
00:42since the details provided by the Romanian side regarding the crash of the UAV in the city of Galesi
00:47raise questions from both a technical as well as from a factual perspective.
00:52The Russian Armed Forces did conduct operations targeting the military infrastructure of the Kiev regime
00:58on the night of May 29th.
01:00These actions are being carried out in response to the terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime
01:05against Russian civilian infrastructure facilities, which are systematic and consistent in nature.
01:10As part of those operations, strikes targeted facilities in the port of Renni in the Odessa region,
01:16through which our former Western partners supply military goods for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
01:23There, those shipments are unloaded, warehoused, and then distributed further across Ukraine
01:30to be used in attacks against our civilian population.
01:35Of course, we will be destroying such shipments as early and as remotely as possible.
01:41According to official Romanian data, there was an impact in the city of Galitz,
01:47allegedly involving a Russian Garand II UAV that struck the roof of an apartment building.
01:52The payload of such a UAV carries approximately 50 kilograms of explosives.
02:00If such a drone had, as claimed, indeed hit the roof of a building,
02:07the consequences would not have been limited to the fire that was shown by Romanian media.
02:12The roof would have been destroyed completely.
02:14The distance from the port of Renni to this building in Galitz is 19 and a half kilometers.
02:21If Ukrainian armed forces had been capable of engaging the Russian drone near Renni,
02:26it would have fallen there and certainly would not have flown such a distance without detonating in midair.
02:33The full circumstances of what happened must be established through a thorough objective and depoliticized investigation
02:41with the involvement of the Russian side first and foremost.
02:44We are ready to participate in such an investigation, but of course,
02:47only if objective data and debris of the drone are shared with us for our analysis.
02:53Only then will we be able to provide an assessment of what actually happened.
02:58This is exactly how we acted in our contacts with U.S. representatives in December 2025
03:04when we handed over the flight mission controller and other components of Ukrainian UAVs
03:10that attempted to attract the residents of the president of Russia and Valdai.
03:16Any assessment of such incidents must be based on verified facts and not political slogans.
03:23We draw your attention to the inconsistencies in statements by Romanian officials.
03:29Initially, they spoke of an allegedly deliberate Russian strike on a civilian object.
03:39Then, just hours later, the president of Romania, Nikosher Dan, revised that position,
03:45stating that a result of Ukrainian air defense activity,
03:50a Russian drone had changed course and entered Romanian airspace.
03:54At the same time, the possibility of a provocation by Kiev,
03:59aimed at testing NATO member states' reaction once again
04:03and accelerating their direct involvement in the crisis, was not even considered.
04:08We also believe it is no coincidence that this drone incident occurred
04:13the day after President Zelenskyy appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump
04:17for missiles for American patriot air defense systems.
04:24Zelenskyy also publicly lamented that Washington was ignoring his requests.
04:29It is regrettable that Romania failed to provide any objective data to the Russian side
04:37and immediately began implementing the political agenda of its senior partners.
04:41The same applies to statements by NATO's Allied Command in Europe,
04:44which rushed to assign blame.
04:51Instead of professional cooperation, pre-prepared retaliatory measures were taken,
04:57such as the closure of the Russian consulate general in Konstantin
05:00and the demand that the consul general leave the country within 72 hours.
05:07Once again, rather than seeking the truth, the focus shifted to using an isolated incident
05:13to fuel anti-Russian hysteria.
05:18Western Russophobes are essentially creating new pretexts to close their ranks
05:23in opposition against Russia and to maintain blocked discipline,
05:28including encouraging continued military support for the Zelenskyy regime.
05:34This incident also helps Europe shield Ukraine
05:38and provides some kind of justification for their bellicose rhetoric towards Russia.
05:44This is especially important in the context of recent tragic events in the Luhansk People's Republic,
05:49which needed to be urgently downplayed by interrupting the news agenda of the day.
05:57Madam President, just over a week ago, on May 22nd,
06:00the Kyiv regime carried out a horrific terrorist attack in Starbilsk.
06:05As a result of strikes on the dormitory of a teacher's college,
06:0921 people were killed, mostly young women, and over 40 students were injured.
06:14The entire world learned of this latest atrocity carried out by the Kyiv regime,
06:19but the Western political establishment, including our colleagues in the Security Council,
06:24chose to ignore this act of terrorism.
06:27Not a word of condolences, only accusations of fake news and lack of information.
06:33You all attended these meetings, and you must remember this well.
06:39After all, victims in regions whose populations are not regarded as worthy by Kyiv and its Western sponsors
06:45deserve no reaction from the West.
06:47They are, from the very beginning, treated as fake and non-existent victims.
06:53Whether there were 50 of them burned alive by Ukrainian Nazis in the Trade Union House in Odessa in 2014,
06:59or 21 in Starbilsk, they simply do not exist.
07:04We promised at the last meeting that we would disseminate materials
07:09regarding these allegedly non-existent victims, and we will do so.
07:16However, as soon as an incident occurs that can be framed within an anti-Russian narrative,
07:23the Western propaganda machine is launched immediately.
07:27This well-established pattern has long become a hallmark of European countries' approach to Ukraine.
07:31Each new incident involving the fall of a missile, a drone, or their fragments on EU territory
07:37is treated as a convenient news coverage opportunity.
07:41First come the accusations against Russia, to which political conclusions are tailored,
07:46and only later, if at all necessary, is there any discussion of the facts.
07:53In this regard, it is important to recall the incident in Psiwodo, Poland, in November 2022.
08:00At that time, after a missile fell and killed two people,
08:03the Kyiv regime and its Western sponsors hastily presented it as a Russian strike
08:08on a NATO member state's territory.
08:13There were immediately statements regarding a Russian attack on the news,
08:18the need for a firm attack, and even the possibility of activating certain mechanisms of the alliance.
08:28In other words, Ukrainian authorities were essentially attempting to use deaths,
08:31people's deaths, to provoke a direct clash between Russia and NATO.
08:34It later emerged that the missile in question was, in fact, a Ukrainian S-300 system,
08:39and this sharply changed the tone of Western statements.
08:44Certainty vanished immediately, and loud accusations gave way to very cautious statements.
08:49But the most important thing never happened.
08:51We never heard either condemnation of the Kyiv regime's actions,
08:56nor any acknowledgment that its irresponsible actions could have brought Europe to the brink of a far more dangerous scenario.
09:02None of those who automatically blamed Russia for everything faced any political accountability
09:07for their hasty and unfounded accusations, and no one ever demanded an explanation from Kyiv.
09:14The incident in Galitsy is far from an isolated case.
09:18The geographic spread of Ukrainian rockets and UAVs across Europe continues to expand,
09:24affecting Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland.
09:28Ukrainian drones falling in these countries, because of which some governments were even forced to resign,
09:32is something that remains on the periphery of the Security Council's attention.
09:37Blame is routinely placed on Russia, but European leaders fail to recognize that this is a natural consequence of their
09:45own policies.
09:46Each such new case is a direct result of their destructive course of arming the Kyiv regime and encouraging further
09:53escalation.
09:55And then, after some time has passed, it turns out that yet another Russian trace turned out to be a
10:02Ukrainian one, in fact,
10:03but Western governments prefer to keep this silent and avoid convening Security Council meetings,
10:08because condemning Kyiv for them would mean acknowledging their own responsibility.
10:13Madam President, given the Security Council's busy agenda,
10:17we believe it is important to use this meeting to draw attention to a truly important issue
10:24related to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
10:28Just two days ago, Kyiv regime fighters used fiber-optic-guided drones
10:34to strike the turbine hall building of the plant's sixth power unit.
10:41They pierced the metal section of the facade of the machine room,
10:45and it was only by sheer luck that the reactor compartment,
10:50which was located 10 meters away from the explosion, was left undamaged.
10:55IA inspectors who arrived on the scene confirmed that there was a strike against the plant.
11:00We call on Security Council members to assure you a principled and objective assessment
11:05of the reckless actions of the Kyiv regime,
11:07which creates the threat of a catastrophic radioactive contamination,
11:13potentially not only for Russia and Ukraine, but a number of European states.
11:18And this is not the first time that the nuclear power plant has come under fire from the Ukrainian armed
11:24forces.
11:25Attacks have been going on for a long time, both against the plant itself and the city of Enerhodar.
11:30One would think that this is precisely where European states would be most concerned,
11:34yet we see neither emergency statements from Brussels nor urgent meetings of European leaders,
11:40nor demands that Kyiv cease its actions.
11:43This is yet another indicator that EU countries are deliberately and purely for political reasons
11:50turning a blind eye to the crimes of the Zelensky regime.
11:53However, if a catastrophe were to occur, no one will be able to sit it out safely.
11:59Radioactive contamination knows no state borders.
12:03Its consequences will affect the entire European continent.
12:07The reaction of the UN Secretariat and the IAA to this is particularly bewildering.
12:12They're trying to have it both ways, expressing concern and speaking of the need to exercise restraint and avoid escalation.
12:20These vague statements and unsubstantiated calls for peace are incapable of dampening the current level of escalation.
12:29Unfortunately, they not only create an atmosphere of impunity and permissiveness,
12:32they push the Kyiv regime towards new crimes as well.
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