UN Ambassador: "Today's Crisis Is Ukraine's Fault" Justifying the Invasion (Update)

[Asia Economy New York=Special Correspondent Joselgina] Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's ambassador to the UN, defended Russia's decision to launch a special military operation in Ukraine during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council held at the UN Headquarters in New York on the night of the 23rd (local time).

According to CNN and others, Ambassador Nebenzya stated, "The root of the crisis surrounding Ukraine today lies in Ukraine's own actions," adding that "(under the Minsk agreements) Ukraine has obstructed its obligations for many years."

He said that Russia's special military operation aims to protect the pro-Russian separatist residents in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, claiming, "They have been cowering under Ukrainian shelling for eight years."

He continued, "Not only have the provocations by the Ukrainian military against the Donbas residents not stopped, but they have intensified," emphasizing that this led to a request for Russian support in the region. Earlier, Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for the Russian Kremlin, announced that military support requests had been received from the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in the Donbas region.

Ambassador Nebenzya has previously claimed that a genocide has been taking place in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and that human rights have been trampled upon.

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