The full statement of Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy at the UN Security Council on Aug. 28 is more than worth the time and considered attention. Here are some highlights:
Polyanskiy situated Kiev’s most recent public relations adventure:
“In fact, Ukraine, at the cost of huge losses in military personnel and Western equipment, for some reason holds a few villages in the Kursk region, diverting scarce reserves, inter alia from the east, where Ukraine’s frontline is collapsing because of this strategic blunder. The pace of the Russian troops’ advancement has accelerated significantly, with more and more settlements in Donbas being liberated every day. … The average territory liberated daily has more than doubled In August compared to July and amounted to 11.2 square kilometers a day, while in recent days this figure has risen to almost 30 square kilometers.”
He contrasted the non-military area Kiev seized in Kursk with the fortified areas in the Donbass they gambled away: “At the same time, it is important to realize that, with the Ukrainian armed forces lacking in reserves to be used in the Kursk region, the Russian forces are now liberating the last strongholds that the Ukrainian armed forces used to reinforce and hold since 2014. And this is only the beginning; Ukraine will have to pay for the Kursk adventure in full.”
He referenced how Kiev’s military bankruptcy only exposes the West even more clearly: “Moreover, Western mercenaries and consultants are fighting and dying in the Kursk forests and fields, and without them, the AFU can do nothing. This means that the complicity of Western countries in the crimes of the Kiev regime has become even more obvious to everyone. We are going to discuss the topic in detail on August 30 at the meeting on Western weapons supplies to Ukraine.”
But of no little weight, he explained what the West’s proxy war means as a lesson to be learned by most countries of the world: “In conclusion, I would like to call on all those UN members whom Washington and its allies are now actively trying to lure into geopolitical games by bribing elites and turning them against their neighbors and other influential world players. Please, look at the example of unfortunate Ukraine and you will understand what such policies can lead to. Ukraine used to be the wealthiest of the post-Soviet republics with impressive industrial potential, but it almost suddenly became one of the poorest states of the former U.S.S.R. Its economy is destroyed, its industry is collapsed, its land is sold off to greedy Western corporations, Ukraine has become a testing ground for American bio-laboratories, and now it is also a testing ground for new Western weapons and utilization of old one.”
And that led to his conclusion: “I do hope that the bloody Ukrainian tragedy provoked by the United States and its NATO allies will teach a lesson to all those who may end up in a similar situation.”