#Nebenzia: #Donetsk and #Lugansk People's Republics declared independence from #Ukraine🇺🇦 back in 2014, but we recognized it only today, despite broad support for such step both in the republics and among the Russian🇷🇺 society that could be seen at the very beginning. https://t.co/TxAa4uE3te

#Nebenzia: While propagating this baseless panic around🇷🇺plans for an invasion of #Ukraine, our Western colleagues shamelessly pumped Ukraine w/arms & instructors. In fact they have been encouraging Ukraine to embark on armed provocations against #Donbas. https://t.co/aznmdrZhP5 https://t.co/SdQWWr92e3

#Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on #Ukraine: Many our colleagues are willing to attest that the #MinskAgreements are dead, which is not true. #Kiev🇺🇦 still has to implement them. We remain open for a diplomatic solution, but we will not allow for another bloodbath in #Donbas. https://t.co/IGfhZPUjfc

#HappeningNow 🇺🇳Security Council will meet at 09.30 pm🕘 (New York time) today to convene a meeting on #Ukraine. https://t.co/P9GF0jdB1T

#Nebenzia: #Ukraine’s Western sponsors did nothing to make #Kiev listen to its people, thus showing double standards. With any other crisis, 🇺🇳members call on conflicting sides to start direct dialogue, otherwise conflict can't be settled. But it's the direct opposite with 🇺🇦. https://t.co/Cmw0YTyEFl

#Nebenzia: The goal of this special operation is protection of people who have been victimized and exposed to genocide by the #Kiev regime. To ensure this, we will seek demilitarization and denazification of #Ukraine🇺🇦. https://t.co/q7ZBJkZPT1 https://t.co/HEJSs9jw2R

#Nebenzia: The tragedy of #Ukraine started after the illegitimate coup in 2014, when instead of talking to Russian-speaking population, new🇺🇦authorities confronted them with guns & aviation. There's enough evidence on that matter, but our Western partners prefer to not notice it. https://t.co/7ZUOYoAAku

#Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine: The root cause of this 🇺🇦crisis is #Ukraine’s acts and its years-long sabotage of direct obligations under the #MinskPackage. Last week we still hoped that #Kiev would think better and finally implement what it committed to back in 2015. https://t.co/MbphOdnOjl

#Nebenzia: West left behind the story how the Maidan junta that rose to power after the coup d'état in #Kiev in 2014 waged war on the people of eastern #Ukraine, firing at residential quarters from guns and multiple rocket launchers and air-dropping bombs on #Donetsk & #Lugansk. https://t.co/HGzLaYxqop

#Nebenzia: We need to focus on correcting the situation that led to this crisis. It did not start when Russia launched a special military operation in #Ukraine. It started much earlier, when you spent 8 years pretending to not notice crimes of Ukrainian nationalists in #Donbas. https://t.co/uapegE8xFB

#Nebenzia: What poses a threat [to #Ukraine] is nationalists who in fact hold 🇺🇦 people as hostages, use them as a human shield. There's numerous evidence proving that nationalists deploy heavy equipment & multiple rocket launchers in residential areas. It's a violation of #IHL. https://t.co/unhUZI2siv

#Nebenzia: While telling tales about a triumph of democracy in #Ukraine, the #Maidan authorities and nationalists killed political opponents with impunity, persecuted the opposition, shut down opposition TV channels where one could get relatively objective information. https://t.co/HM8bCrZM8P

#Nebenzia: What does pose a threat to the people of #Ukraine is 🇺🇦 nationalists who in fact hold them as hostages and use as a human shield. There is evidence, disseminated by ordinary Ukrainians, proving that nationalists deploy heavy equipment in residential quarters. https://t.co/F6hm4mkCOu

#Nebenzia at #UNGA on #Ukraine: As reported today, 🇺🇦Armed Forced do not let civilians out of #Mariupol, keeping them, including women and children, in one of local schools. They force back all those who try to leave the city via the established #humanitarian corridors. https://t.co/urh5pJHsvu

#Nebenzia: The draft [GA resolution on #Ukraine] does not mention that the new nationalist authorities limited the usage of 🇷🇺language, which started a sequence of violations of fundamental rights of the people of eastern Ukraine, including the core right – the right to life. https://t.co/QpRhRXVTmy

#Nebenzia: Draft resolution [on #Ukraine] is an attempt of those who over past 10 years committed countless acts of aggression, military operations that were illegal in terms of IL, and takeovers (#Maidan coup one of them), to present themselves as guardians of intn'l legitimacy. https://t.co/lUnU5vjjBT

#Nebenzia: We are #Ukraine’s neighbors. We lived through the #Chernobyl tragedy together with Ukrainians and Belarusians. So that is why we are interested more than anyone else in maintaining a normal #radiation situation throughout #Ukraine. https://t.co/2CkJxUY8jB https://t.co/qZAJLbpaRU

#Nebenzia: It is not Russian 🇷🇺 troops, but Ukrainian nationalists that pose a threat to the people of #Ukraine. They keep population of some big cities as hostages, they carry out acts of sabotage and provocations, and then afterwards they attempt to blame Russia for that. https://t.co/t1O02u4pIG