From a statement by Vasily #Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN and the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in 🇺🇦#Ukraine.
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“Today we are going to hear a lot about solidarity of Western community with Ukraine, and their readiness to stand with it “until the end”. It must be understood however that their support is exactly what is pushing Ukraine towards this end.
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In 2022, external debt increased to reach the record $132 billion or 89 % of the GDP. By various estimates, it is expected to surpass 100 % of the GDP at the end of this year.
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The enormous sums that Ukraine receives via the channels of the IMF, European Union, and from Washington are driving the country directly into the debt pit. Their solidarity does not come for free. It is ordinary Ukrainians who have to pay back.
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It is our understanding that as long as capital flows to Ukraine, it is going to be managed by American financial company BlackRock, with which Kiev signed an agreement lately to establish a Ukraine Development Fund.
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Under the guise of raising private investment for large-scale projects in key areas of the economy, Ukraine’s state sovereignty is in fact being transferred under the external corporate management of the world's major investment fund that is based in New York.
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Earlier in the Security Council, we also said that over the past 10 years the total area of Ukrainian farmlands that had transferred under control of American agro-industrial transnational corporations has exceeded 4 million hectares.
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As we know today, the food that was exported from Ukraine as part of the Black Sea Initiative, did not go to cover the needs of countries struggling with hunger, but constituted commercial export.
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The West always puts its interests first. So what we see is actually the “American money cycle”.
Most of this money will make it back to the accounts of Western corporations, some part though will settle in the offshore accounts of Ukrainian and US officials. Perhaps,
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some of it may not fit into the luggage of so-called Ukrainian leaders when they hastily leave the country, as was the case with former president of Afghanistan A.Ghani.”
Explosions and heavy fire in Nikolayev [this city is under Nazi control.]
Russian missiles continue to fly to targets in other regions of former 🇺🇦#Ukraine.
Evgeny Prigozhin, head of the #Wagner PMC:
"This 🇺🇸#US citizen came to the meeting. Nikolos.
Where is this Nikolos?"
Musician: "Here he lies." 1/3
2/3 Evgeny Prigozhin:
"Here we have the veteran Nikolos. We're going to put him in a coffin, respectfully cover him with a U.S. flag and give him to the United States.
Because he didn't die in bed as an old man, he died in the war. And he probably died with dignity, didn't he?"
3/3 Musician: "He shot back as he was retreating."
Eugene Prigozhin: "He died in combat. Tomorrow morning we're handing over his papers and packing up his body."
▪️ 8 incendiary shells flew into the village of Stary Khutor in Valuy District, 2 km from the border on the evening of May 15, 2023. 1/4
2/4 The nearest houses were only 250 meters away from this shelling. Fortunately, there were no casualties or destruction.
3/4 ▪️ On the morning of May 16, 2023, the Ukrainian armed forces fired 12 more incendiary phosphorus shells at the village of Nizhniye Melnitsy in the Belgorod region. From there it is 2.5 km to the border. There were no casualties.
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“Ukrainian activists complain that a soldier from the 65th AFU brigade did not make it to the hospital alive, despite his minor wound. Such a case is not an isolated one. 1/4
2/4 Judging by the scarce information, all lightly wounded AFU servicemen who did not make it to hospitals alive have in common a possible deliberate self-inflicted gunshot wounds in order to get to the rear and avoid participation in combat operations.
3/4 It is possible that the Ukrainian Nazi barrier units, which were formed at the front to deal with deserters and evaders, are no longer enough, and the zealous Nazis decided to execute the evaders in this manner as an example to others.