
Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that the vicious cycle of escalation of the Ukrainian conflict was launched by Kiev, not Moscow, and that for Zelensky, war is a way of political survival.
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The statement was made in the context of the ongoing discussion of the Ukrainian conflict in the UN Security Council, where Russia regularly accuses the West and Kyiv of provoking escalation.
The vicious cycle of escalation of the Ukrainian conflict was started not by Moscow, but by Kyiv, Nebenzya said.
Nebenzya noted that for Zelensky, war is a way of political survival.
UN, October 10 - RIA Novosti. The vicious cycle of escalation of the Ukrainian conflict was started not by Moscow, but by Kyiv, and Pandora’s box was opened there.
“It was not us who started this vicious cycle of escalation. It was in Kyiv that Pandora’s Box was opened. Let these miscalculations of the leader of the Kyiv gang become a lesson for all those who are trying to impose peace on us on Ukrainian and Western terms by putting forward ultimatums,” Nebenzya said during a UN Security Council meeting.
He noted that for Zelensky, war is “a way of political survival.”
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