U.S Vs Russia Face-Off at UN: Trump’s Team Sides With Zelensky, Blasts Putin For Delaying Ceasefire

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00:00The United States put forward a proposal for an immediate, unconditional and comprehensive ceasefire.

00:06Ukraine unequivocally accepted, pending Russia's agreement to do the same.

00:12The biggest fear of Zelensky are the elections.

00:16Elections when he and his sidekicks will have to answer for not keeping their promises about peace with Russia,

00:23not protecting the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians,

00:25respect for rights and freedoms in a country which he himself has turned into a concentration camp,

00:30Thank you, Mr. President.

00:33And I'd like to thank Undersecretary DiCarlo for her briefing,

00:37and thank Director Doughton for her intervention.

00:42Colleagues, more than three months have passed since this Council adopted a resolution

00:47imploring a swift end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

00:53Following that historic resolution, the United States has worked tirelessly with both sides,

00:58seeking a path to peace.

01:00We want an end to this war.

01:03As the first step on that path to peace, the United States put forward a proposal for an immediate,

01:08unconditional and comprehensive ceasefire.

01:12Ukraine unequivocally accepted, pending Russia's agreement to do the same.

01:18Since then, we have been urging Russia to accept a ceasefire.

01:22Following President Trump's May 21 call with Russian President Putin,

01:29the Russian Federation is expected to provide a term sheet broadly outlining its vision for a ceasefire.

01:36We will judge Russia's seriousness towards ending the war,

01:40not only by the contents of that term sheet, but more importantly, by Russia's actions.

01:46On that note, we condemn Russia's decision over the past weekend to launch some of the largest missiles

01:54and drone strikes against Ukraine since the beginning of the war.

01:58On the other hand, the recent agreement by both Russia and Ukraine to exchange 1,000 prisoners

02:12is an indication of what might be possible.

02:16If both Russia and Ukraine are truly interested in peace,

02:21the United States will work with both parties, with European partners and with the United Nations,

02:26to help achieve that goal, beginning with a meaningful ceasefire.

02:30But we will insist the discussion of peace by both sides must be undertaken in good faith.

02:38If Russia makes the wrong decision to continue this catastrophic war,

02:43the United States will have to consider stepping back from our negotiation efforts to end this conflict.

02:49To be clear, in doing so, we would not be abandoning our principals or our friends.

02:54Rather, we would be recognizing Russia's refusal to work with us toward a desirable outcome.

03:02As President Trump has made clear, we want to work with Russia,

03:07including on this peace initiative and an economic package.

03:11There is no military solution to this conflict.

03:15The deal on offer now is Russia's best possible outcome.

03:20President Putin should take the deal.

03:22The alternative, continuing to wage the war, would not be in anyone's interest, including Russia's.

03:30Doing so would continue to damage Russia's economy, military resources, national security, and international reputation.

03:39Additional sanctions on Russia are still on the table.

03:43President Trump has emphasized from the beginning that this war was a strategic mistake and should never have happened.

03:50Time is not on the side of anyone who would prolong it.

03:55We will call on both Russia and Ukraine to make the difficult, historic decision to pursue peace.

04:02The responsibility of ending this war ultimately lies with them.

04:07If one side proves unable or unwilling to do so, it will own the consequences.

04:13Mr. President, we would like to once again state for the record that we completely disagree with the Presidency's approach

04:26that is inviting delegations to today's meetings under Rules 37 and 39.

04:32Aside from Ukraine, there are five more delegations who have been invited.

04:35They're either NATO members or EU members or their allies.

04:40Every time, these delegations spend at least half an hour, half an hour of our precious time,

04:47given the budget deficit at the UN, the very valuable time of the Security Council,

04:52so as to read out the same narratives with zero added value,

04:58in addition to the representative of the EU.

05:01This situation is unacceptable, and responsibility for this falls squarely on the shoulders of the Presidency.

05:10Without a doubt, the European nations, when they hold the Presidencies of the Security Council,

05:17are simply impossible to place the impartiality of the Security Council above block solidarity.

05:23This undermines our credibility and the value of our discussions.

05:26However, we are counting on European delegations, especially the main sponsors,

05:33pumping the Kiev regime full of weapons.

05:35We hope they will also ask to speak tomorrow at the briefing we requested

05:41on the theme of European attempts to thwart the peace process surrounding Ukraine.

05:47We have a lot of questions, and we will be expecting answers.

05:53We aren't expecting answers, but we do have the hope that the EU will answer at least some of them,

06:01not as part of a staged EU-NATO event organized by them for their purposes,

06:10based on preparations made by Brussels.

06:17But, as called for here at the Security Council,

06:21as part of an interactive discussion, as the entire international community looks on,

06:28strategic sovereignty was lost long ago by our former European partners,

06:33and they are incapable of doing what I just asked for.

06:36President, the script of today's meeting is absolutely clear and predictable.

06:42This meeting, much like previous similar initiatives undertaken by our Western

06:47and of late European colleagues, specifically,

06:50these meetings are convened not to resolve problems,

06:53nor to bring the Ukrainian crisis closer to a peaceable settlement.

06:57The goal is to stop an image of a supposedly free and democratic Ukraine

07:02from being definitively deflated.

07:04Ukraine, which has the image of a victim of a so-called Russian aggression,

07:09an image which the European sponsors of the regime in Kiev are trying to keep afloat.

07:12They've been doing this for years now.

07:14They began creating this image long before Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine.

07:20It's becoming increasingly difficult for London, Paris, Berlin,

07:25and their satellites to blow up this propaganda bubble,

07:28because the dictatorship in Kiev and the endeavors of the Kiev overstay of princeling to cling to power at any costs,

07:38power he would lose if peace were to prevail, are patently obvious.

07:41The biggest fear of Zelensky are the elections.

07:48Elections when he and his sidekicks will have to answer for not keeping their promises about peace with Russia,

07:55not protecting the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians,

07:57respect for rights and freedoms in a country which he himself has turned into a concentration camp and a meat grinder.

08:03Moreover, as long as the bugbear of a Russian threat exists,

08:11the Zelensky posse doesn't have to account for all of the money stolen from state coffers,

08:16nor the stealing of Western and, in particular, U.S. assistance,

08:22which amounts to tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars.

08:24This isn't something Zelensky's European accomplices and the Biden administration want.

08:30Those who have profited handsomely from the Ukrainian conflict.

08:34That's why the main objective of this group of militarists is to prevent the main shareholder, the U.S.,

08:40from exiting the Ukraine anti-Russia geopolitical project.

08:45They want to prolong the war for as long as possible.

08:48This isn't easy, because the new U.S. administration has, over the last few months,

08:53opened its eyes and seen the true colors of the Zelensky regime,

08:57as well as the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict.

09:00That's why they're resorting to any and every provocation,

09:03any and all lies about Russia, its activities and plans.

09:08Today, once again, in this chamber, they're asking us to believe

09:11that Russia is knowingly shelling residential areas of Ukrainian cities,

09:15serving up as evidence the consequences of Ukrainian air defenses,

09:20which have been stationed next to homes and social infrastructure

09:23in violation of basic norms of international humanitarian law.

09:26At the same time, what's being hushed up is the fact that our strikes target exclusively facilities

09:33linked to Ukraine's military industrial complex,

09:36and we are successfully destroying or rendering these facilities inoperable.

09:41Over the last few days, we've hit munitions storages and military technologies

09:46in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a temporary deployment site and rocket and artillery munitions,

09:53warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Mechanized Brigade in the Sumi area,

09:57as well as a temporary deployment site for foreign mercenaries in Svetogosk,

10:02in the DPR and in the Kharkov regions.

10:04A strike was conducted on a defense industry plant in Ukraine.

10:10That's the Pavlogradsky chemicals plant in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

10:15We destroyed two Patriot anti-aircraft missile system launchers.

10:21Rockets were fired on an unloading and storage area containing military equipment and munitions in Odessa port.

10:29This resulted in the destruction of roughly 100 containers containing important components

10:35for uncrewed vessels, UAVs, as well as munitions.

10:41What is also being hushed up is the fact that the Russian Federation is doing what I just mentioned

10:47only in response to massive and deliberate shelling on the part of the Kyiv regime of peaceable Russian cities.

10:53Thus, despite the fact that the Russian Federation called a 72-hour ceasefire

10:58to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism,

11:02between the 8th and the 11th of May, we recorded over 14,000 violations,

11:08over 4,000 attacks by artillery, tanks and mortars, 62 attacks using MLRSs,

11:179,900 strikes and releases of munitions from UAVs.

11:24We recorded five attempts to break through Russia's state border in the Belgorodsk and Kusk regions,

11:31as well as 37 attacks waged by the Ukrainian armed forces.

11:34In those three days, an aggression was waged by Bandera's followers,

11:40which claimed the lives of six Russian civilians and at least 17 people were injured.

11:44It's very telling that the most massive attacks by UAVs on civilian objects in Russian cities,

11:52including Russia, far removed from the front line,

11:55were waged by Kyiv after we saw nascent progress towards peace.

12:00Specifically, they waged these attacks after direct Russo-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul

12:07were resumed and set a course towards an end to the conflict.

12:11Between 8 p.m. on the 20th of May and 8 a.m. on the 27th of May,

12:18what was destroyed and intercepted is 2,331 UAVs launched from Ukraine,

12:28including 1,465 which were outside the area where we're conducting this special military operation.

12:34Regrettably, as a result, there were civilian casualties, including women and children.

12:38On the 22nd of May, due to an attack on the village of Pantelimonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic,

12:45eight people were wounded.

12:47On that very same day, in the Vasiljevsk municipality in the Zaporizhia region,

12:52owing to a UAV strike, a woman died.

12:55She was born in 1990.

12:57Four children were wounded.

12:58The Ukrainian armed forces also struck civilian objects in the city of Lugov,

13:06in the Kursk Oblast, using HIMARS,

13:08and 16 people were wounded, including two children.

13:11President,

13:12the plans concocted by Zelensky and his accomplices are plain and clear.

13:17Their goal is to trick and to disorient President Trump,

13:22who is taking decisive steps towards peace.

13:25At any cost, they want to return the United States,

13:28which has lost hundreds of billions of dollars helping Ukraine,

13:34to return the U.S. to an anti-Russian and rucophobic cause.

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