Ambassador Holland questions Russia’s seriousness about peace when it continues to attack Ukraine with hundreds of drones and refuses to commit to a full, immediate ceasefire.
3 April 2025
Thank you, Mister Chair. It is now a full 22 days [now, 23 days–OFP] since Ukraine expressed its readiness to accept an immediate 30-day ceasefire. The only condition that Ukraine attached was that Russia should agree to it too. Rather than grasp this opportunity for peace, Russia has chosen to continue to fight, a decision whose consequence is the needless sacrifice of more lives of soldiers and civilians on both sides. The indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas has shown no sign of slowing down. Last week, Russia sent over a thousand drones towards Ukraine. In Kharkiv, a military hospital was targeted. A kindergarten was damaged. At least, 25 people were hurt, including a 15-year-old girl left in a serious condition.
This is the price that Ukrainians pay for the Kremlin’s game playing with the peace process. Rather than engaging seriously with the US-led peace initiative, President Putin is resorting to his old playbook and looking to distract and delay. His attempt last week to question the credibility of President Zelenskyy was nothing more than a transparent ploy to deflect from the real matter at hand: Russia’s failure to get more seriously to the table, and commit to a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
Regrettably, we see no evidence that President Putin is seriously preparing for peace. Published readouts of the US convened ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia confirmed a naval ceasefire and prevention of use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea. The UK welcomed this important step, but Russia immediately backtracked and placed conditions on the agreement – despite good faith commitment from Ukraine. Just this week, President Putin has ordered the largest conscription drive since the war began.
We do not need to look far for reminders as to why this war must end. This week marks the third anniversary of the appalling acts by the invading Russian forces in Bucha. The gruesome images of bodies lying in the streets shocked the world. Russia’s armed forces acted with total contempt and disregard for civilian life and the most fundamental principles of the laws of war.
However, rather than reckoning with these atrocities, we see continued Russian efforts in this council and others, to spread disinformation in an effort to absolve themselves of responsibility for these illegal and inhumane actions. This is despite the litany of evidence, including witness testimonies, independently verified satellite imagery, photos and videos. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has categorically documented attacks on civilians, including conflict-related sexual violence, and summary executions.
Mister Chair, we must emphasise the need for accountability for these actions and renew our commitment to collaborating towards enduring peace. Distortions of the historical record will not help in this endeavour. Rather we need the Russian state to commit to peace and demonstrate the sincerity of its words. Thank you, Mister Chair.
The ambassador has spoken words that no one should forget, that the mafia state is not interested in any peace, or even a simple ceasefire.
Unfortunately, no word was mentioned of Donald Trump’s complete weakness and lack of leadership, as we’ve seen from Biden and Obama before him, only his is at another and much lower level. Trump’s methodologies have been wrong from the very beginning and have been downright subservient to the vicious and brutal dictatorship, which does nothing but to lower the United States to the position of being putin’s clownish, little, snot-nosed stooge.
This administration has dirtied the United States for generations to come. All the names involved – Trump, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Waltz, and Witkoff – will be tarnished forever and bring negative emotions like those of Benedict Arnold, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, John Wilkes Booth, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Their families and descendants in the future will live in shame for their forefathers. And millions of Americans who support this semi-fascist regime in Washington will also live in shame, publicly or privately, depending on how loudmouthed they were.
I don’t see the maga crowd ever regretting this tragedy. They only think of them selves, have no compassion for anything, and only see their Fuhrer as being brilliant and invincible. Kinda like 1938.
So, Republicans are responsible for putin’s 2014 invasion? Or putin’s 2022 invasion? And beyond that, they are nazis too? Wow, Democrats can get away with murder…literally…maybe I should switch? Nah, I don’t want to be associated with murderers and those that give comfort to the REAL nazi invaders.
“So, Republicans are responsible for putin’s 2014 invasion?”
No, putler is.
“Or putin’s 2022 invasion?”
No, putler is.
“And beyond that, they are nazis too?”
Those are your words. What Sir Cap said was that the MAGAt’s attitude to Der Pumpkinfuhrer is much like the German Nazi attitude to their Fuhrer.
The Trump administration is a fascist one, like it or not.
“I don’t see the maga crowd”
“Kinda like 1938.”
I only hope that future generations will refer to a “MAGA America” as distinct from “America”, the same way we refer to “Nazi Germany” as distinct from “Germany”.
So do I. Maga America is a synonym to Nazi America.
Only an economic collapse will wake those moronic maga bimbos up, and then not all of them. Once brainless, always brainless.
I just saw a meme of a guy in a MAGA hat saying, “I blame Biden. He shoulda done a better job explaining how Trump’s policies were gonna screw people like me. That’s why I’m still MAGA.”
That about suns it up for many of them goobers.
“Unfortunately, no word was mentioned of Donald Trump’s complete weakness and lack of leadership”
Well, if anyone points that out, trumpkov will throw another temper tantrum.
I wish I could do that in person. I would enjoy seeing his orange complexion turn beet red.
“The gruesome images of bodies lying in the streets shocked the world.”
Unfortunately they didn’t. At least nowhere near enough.
And absolutely no one of any significance is prepared to call out putinaZi ruZZia for what it is : a hellish, genocidal pit of vipers.
It seems the world has learned nothing at all from the harsh lessons of the 1930s and 40s.