Tuesday, February 18

Speech by the Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation at the Vienna talks on Military security and arms control K.Y.Gavrilov at the 1050th plenary session of the OSCE Forum on Security Cooperation, June 21, 2023

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Agenda item: General statements

Topic: On conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine

 

Madam Chairman,

On June 17, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg, demonstrated a draft treaty on permanent Neutrality and Security Guarantees Ukraine, which the Russian and Ukrainian sides initialed in March 2022 at the Istanbul talks. However, after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions, under the pressure of Anglo-Saxon curators, Kiev threw him into the dustbin of history without any explanation. Having legislated the rejection of negotiations with Russia on September 30, 2022, the Ukrainian authorities actually gave the “green light” to the EU-NATO conglomerate to receive huge profits on the blood of another nation.

Today, the United States, NATO and The EU openly declares that they oppose the freezing of the conflict in Ukraine. So they want to fight. Russia is ready for this.

Implemented by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) the so-called counteroffensive only confirms that the criminal Kiev regime does not take into account the losses in manpower, just to justify to Western sponsors their costs of military support for their country in its current fascist and misanthropic form. Thus, the French edition of Le Monde confirmed that 40% of the AFU soldiers who trained “in one Baltic country” were killed. Over the past week alone, Kiev’s losses in manpower amounted to about 4.5 thousand Ukrainian servicemen, who for the most part were forcibly mobilized. In total, since June 4, according to various estimates, at least 34 thousand soldiers have been killed on the enemy side.

The ineffectual attacks of the Ukrainian army in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk and South Donets directions, and there have been over 260 of them since the beginning of the declared “counteroffensive”, negatively affect the moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian troops. According to the Canadian newspaper “Toronto Star”, “despondency reigns in the ranks of the AFU, and even the seriously wounded are forced to fight.” It is not surprising that due to failures on the battlefield, a mass surrender of enemy soldiers is recorded. For the Anglo-Saxon authors of the announced Ukrainian “counteroffensive”, this is a very disturbing trend. But even in this case, they have a cynical scenario in store: Washington and London expect that in the future the Poles will be able to take the place of Ukrainians in the battles, and then, perhaps, the Germans. The Russian side is ready for such a development of events. Moreover, we have historical combat experience.

Artillery and aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to hit significant AFU logistics facilities in the frontline zone in the Zaporozhye area, successfully repel attacks by mechanized units in the South Donets direction and in the area of Artemovsk. The losses of the APU in tanks and armored fighting vehicles over the past week amounted to more than 200 units, including the vaunted German Leopard, American Bradley, Stryker and MRAP MaxxPro. In addition, the Ukrainian troops lost more than 50 mortars and artillery systems, including Polish Krab, French Caesar, American M-109 Paladin and M-777 guns that no longer cause any excitement. By the way, the total number of tanks and other armored fighting vehicles destroyed by the Russian army during the period of the special military operation has already exceeded 10 thousand units. It is significant that the Pentagon is in no hurry to share its “Abrams” with the APU, apparently expecting the continuation of the total “tank pogrom” of military equipment provided by the Europeans. It is not visible “in the field” and the advertised British “Challenger”. As for the Americans, their plan is clear – when the NATO allies’ armories are completely depleted, they will line up for Abrams, replenishing the Washington treasury.

Attempts to shift responsibility for the European security crisis to Russia will not change the real state of affairs: Western countries are responsible for the escalation of the armed confrontation and the potential expansion of its area. According to incoming data, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine plans to strike the territory of the Russian Federation, including Crimea, with American HIMARS and Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles. There should be no doubt that their use outside the zone of the special operation will entail immediate attacks on decision-making centers on the territory of Ukraine. As you know, some ukrogenerals who called for killing all Russians, after such strikes have already gone on indefinite leave without explanation.

The same applies to the long-range ATACMS missiles that appeared in the draft US military budget for 2024 and the deliveries of F-16 fighters to Kiev, which could potentially carry nuclear weapons, that are being carefully worked out on the sidelines of NATO. So far, the only possible option for their use by the AFU is to work from airfields in Poland and Romania, and with the involvement of NATO pilots. Within the framework of the “nuclear five”, we have already warned our overseas colleagues what consequences this could have.

We are also closely monitoring the situation around Transnistria. Given the adventurous course of the Ukrainian authorities to escalate the conflict in favor of the destructive plans of their Western masters, we cannot exclude any options for the development of events. In order to prevent them, there is a Russian peacekeeping contingent as part of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces. At the same time, no one should have any doubts that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will adequately respond to the provocation of the Kiev regime, if any, and will ensure the protection of our compatriots, the Russian peacekeeping contingent, the servicemen of the Operational Group of Russian Troops (OGRV) and military depots in the locality of Kolbasna in Transnistria. Any actions that pose a threat to their security will be considered in accordance with international law as an attack on our country.

Madam Chairman,

In the context of the growing militaristic ambitions of the “collective West”, the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin outlined for the future a clear task of forming a “sanitary zone” in Ukraine, depending on the range of weapons transferred to it, in order to protect the citizens of our country from the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kiev has not spared people for the tenth year, we do not intend to tolerate this.

At the moment, Russia is focused on eliminating the large-scale consequences of another terrorist outburst of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carefully prepared and “tested” in advance with the use of American precision weapons. We are talking about the undermining of the Kakhovskaya HPP. As a result of its destruction, 36 settlements of the Kherson region were flooded. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, with the assistance of the armed forces, volunteers of the All-Russian Student Rescue Corps and the national public movement “People’s Front” conducted a complete evacuation of residents of flooded areas. Over seven thousand . people were taken out of the disaster zone. Rescuers on boats toured literally every house to make sure that all residents were evacuated. More than 1,100 people and 320 pieces of equipment were involved to eliminate the consequences of flooding. Without exaggeration, the whole of Russia mobilized to save those who got into trouble as a result of another war crime of the Kiev regime.

At the moment, pumping of water and disinfection of premises is continuing. The troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection carry out sanitary treatment of the left bank of the Dnieper. Humanitarian aid is being delivered to the flood zone, including about 150 tons of food and 240 tons of bottled water. The administration of the Kherson region has started the process of processing cash payments to all victims.

While the Russian Federation is making every effort to rescue residents of the affected areas and provide them with everything they need, the Kiev authorities continue shelling civilians in the Kherson region. Having failed to show their worth on the battlefield, the APU decided to take revenge on volunteers, rescuers, children and the elderly.

On June 16, three Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked the Novaya Kakhovka hospital, where patients who suffered from the flood were being treated. One person was concussed, three were injured. 70% of the windows in the medical facility were knocked out. On the same day, a one-and-a-half-year-old child playing in the yard died as a result of the shelling of the village of Dneprany by the AFU. The main “champions” of international humanitarian law in this Hall are the United States, Canada, the EU and Britain – will they condemn Ukrainian child murderers today?

This is not an accident or an accident, but a purposeful extermination of people, which is being implemented against the background of the boorish and self-revealing refusal of the Kiev regime from the initiative of Turkish President R.T. Erdogan to create an international commission to investigate the circumstances of the Kakhovskaya HPP explosion.

It is not the first time for Ukrainian neo-Nazis to blow up dams. At the very beginning of the special military operation, Colonel-General of the AFU A.Syrsky gave the order to plant explosives on the Irpen River dam near Kiev and make an explosion to achieve operational advantages. So in the case of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station – due to the erosion of the Dnieper riverbed and the subsequent disappearance of the “gray zone”, more and more attempts are being recorded to throw sabotage and reconnaissance groups into Russian territory: over the past few days, three boats were destroyed under the Bare Pier, near Alyosha – five boats.

Separately, we emphasize that the flooding of the territories of the Kherson region planned by the Kiev regime can complicate the epidemiological situation in the region, which can be used by the APU and their curators for military purposes. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, after the water level drops, it is possible to form foci of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, primarily West Nile fever. The high technological level of readiness of the United States for the use of infected vectors is evidenced by a patent for a UAV designed to spread infected mosquitoes in the air, which are capable of infecting military personnel to achieve a “tangible military effect.” By the way, American biologists in 2020 received official permission to release genetically modified mosquitoes into nature. This is another argument in favor of conducting an international investigation of US military biological activities outside the national territory, including Ukraine.

Returning to the consequences of the shelling of the civilian population of the Kherson region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we would like to draw attention to the indicative reaction of the EU to these crimes of the Ukronazists. Or rather, its absence. So, the head of European diplomacy J.Borrel called on Russia to stop shelling during the evacuation of the population. We must clearly understand that statements by the EU are the same element of a hybrid war as all other actions taken by the enemy on the information front: fakes, falsifications of facts, provocations and other propaganda techniques directed against our country. All the statements of the West should be perceived in much the same way as the statements of the Nazi Goebbels were perceived during the Great Patriotic War – as an element of military operations.

In the same way, we qualify the silencing by the Europeans of the ongoing war crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Last week, more than 200 attacks on densely populated areas of the DPR from MLRS and artillery of 155, 152 and 122 mm caliber were recorded in Donbass. 47 people were injured, three were killed, including a child. More than 40 residential buildings and 11 civil infrastructure facilities were damaged or destroyed. I will give some examples for self-proclaimed advocates of compliance with the principles of international humanitarian law. On June 19, Ukrainian militants attacked a humanitarian aid distribution point in the locality. Volnovakha in the DPR from the American MLRS M142 “HIMARS”, as a result of which 20 civilians were injured. In the same place, a six-year-old girl died as a result of an explosion on an APU mine, and the description of an explosive object falls under the characteristics of the German anti-tank ammunition “AT-2”. The silence of the delegations of the USA, Canada, the EU and Britain suggests that they approve of such criminal antics of their Ukrainian puppets, do we understand correctly?

Despite civilian casualties, Western countries continue to pump Ukraine with weapons, which are used against the territory of Russia by Ukrainian sabotage groups and pro-Ukrainian saboteurs.

We are still waiting for signals from Brussels to launch a fair investigation into the circumstances of the use of assault rifles manufactured in Wallonia to attack Russian territory, as a result of which one person was killed and eight injured in the Belgorod region. The expression of “pictorial concern” and the statement that it was an “insignificant episode” cannot be dismissed here. If the task of “collective Brussels” is according to the precepts of the representative of the office of the President of Ukraine M.Podolyak – to destroy “as many Russians as possible”, then, of course, these losses seem insignificant to them. This is probably why the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium has reported on the provision of another package of military assistance to the Kiev regime in the amount of 46 million euros.

Madam Chairman,

Acute concern remains over the massive supplies of Soviet and Russian-made weapons, military equipment and ammunition to the Kiev regime. Only the member States of the former Warsaw Pact Organization (ATS) handed over to Kiev about 410 tanks and 250 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as various aircraft, huge amounts of ammunition for artillery, light and small arms.

In accordance with long-standing international practice, deliveries of most types of weapons are always accompanied by the provision by the recipient country of the appropriate end-user certificate, one of the key criteria of which is the inadmissibility of re-exporting the received weapons without the written consent of the exporting country.

It is this provision that is being violated now by Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and other NATO countries led by the United States, which are trying to buy Soviet and Russian weapons around the world. Among the numerous examples are Slovakia’s delivery to Ukraine of the Soviet S–300 PMU-1 air defense system, the sending by the Americans of 20 Mi-17 helicopters purchased in Russia for the needs of the Afghan government, Portugal’s attempts to “fuse” six KA-32A11 helicopters to the Kiev regime and the actual seizure by Prague in favor of Ukraine of 74 Moroccan T-72B tanks that were in the Czech Republic for modernization.

Contrary to participation in international agreements in the field of scrupulous export control, Western states continue to contribute to the aggravation of the armed conflict in Ukraine, generate risks of uncontrolled spread and weapons falling into the hands of subversive and criminal groups. The transfer of Belgian SALW to Ukrainian terrorists and saboteurs is far from the first such case, which clearly undermines the entire range of military and political OSCE commitments in the field of preventing illegal trafficking in weapons and ammunition.

Madam Chairman,

We call on the United States and its satellites to withdraw Western mercenaries and military equipment from the territory of Ukraine and convince the Kiev wards before it is too late to embark on the path of peace negotiations. Ukraine should return to observing the neutral non-aligned status fixed in the Declaration on its State Sovereignty of 1990, abandon plans to join NATO and the EU. The new territorial realities that have developed as a result of the realization of the right of peoples to self-determination should be recognized. As for the objectives of the special military operation, they are well known and remain unchanged. There can be no doubt: threats to the national security of the Russian Federation and its citizens will be reliably stopped, no matter how long it takes.

Thank you for your attention.

 

A source: https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1890619/

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