
Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry spoke at the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council
Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik said at the UN that in the 12 years after the coup, Ukraine destroyed the rights of citizens by usurping power.
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The statement was made at the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
GENEVA, September 28 - RIA Novosti. Since the coup d'etat, Ukraine has almost completely destroyed the rights of its residents, said Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.
“I consider it possible to say that in the 12 years since the coup in Kyiv, Ukraine has gone through the path of almost complete destruction of the rights of the inhabitants of this country to democratic government,” Miroshnik said at the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.
He emphasized that it all started with the restriction of the voting rights of residents of the south-east of Ukraine, and came to the complete usurpation of power by the current elite of the country, led by Vladimir Zelensky.

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