Russian UN Envoy: Kursk Incursion Is Kyiv’s Answer to Putin’s Peace Proposal

Aug. 16—Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Mission to the UN, noted in remarks to an Aug. 13 informal meeting at the UN Security Council that on June 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin “made a very generous negotiation proposal to Ukraine, given its desperate situation on the frontline.” What he referred to was Putin's proposal to create a sovereign but no-NATO member Ukraine, who would trade land that has been already incorporated into the Russian Federation, including the Crimea and four eastern oblasts for peace, and the cooperative reconstruction of the country, whose servitude to NATO's war against Russia, has cost more than 700,000 military casualties; as a non-negotiable point, Ukraine must agree to disband its Nazi Waffen SS -ike legions such as the Azov Brigade, and remove all Nazis from its government.

The Kyiv regime had not responded—that is, until a week ago, when “the Zelenskyy regime chose escalation and war through incursion into a peaceful Russian region [Kursk],” Polyanskiy said. "This is a fatal mistake that will be desperately regretted by Ukraine later. But the choice has been made.

“What is still to be known is whether it was made with full knowledge of its Western backers or whether it was a personal act of madness. The last time we saw German tanks on our territory was exactly 80 years ago. Now they are being driven by Ukrainians. You all remember how it ended for Germany back then. The end will be no less inglorious for Ukrainian Nazis today. And it is up to you whether you will continue to side with them and get drowned together in this disdain and disgrace or to finally choose the right side of history. The choice is yours, ladies and gentlemen, and don’t tell us that we didn’t warn you.”

Earlier in his remarks, Polyanskiy had showed videos of Ukrainian forces’ crimes and atrocities committed against civilians: “Against the backdrop of multiplying setbacks on the battlefield, the Kiev regime, after obtaining Western long-range artillery systems, regularly resorts to deliberately attacking non-combatants not only in the Donbass region but also in neighboring Russian cities,” Polyanskiy described. He cited the bombing of the market in Belgorod city last December, which killed 29 civilians, as one example. Polyanskiy also described the case of an elderly woman who was killed last week by a Ukrainian drone that flew in through the open window of her apartment in Shebekino in the Belgorod region.

Then there was the double tap attack in Sudzha when Ukrainian forces killed a 24-year-old pregnant woman, and then attacked the ambulance that responded to the family’s call for help, killing the paramedic and the driver. “We haven’t heard a word of condemnation of these actions from Western sponsors of the Kyiv regime, who continue to cover up the abhorrent crimes of their puppet in the same manner as they ignored its atrocities in Donbass for more than eight years,” Polyanskiy said.

“Despite all this evidence,” Polyanskiy said after showing more videos, “we heard only statements of support to the Zelenskyy regime from the United States and its allies, claiming that this military adventure fits into the Ukrainian efforts to disrupt attacks into its sovereign territory. I would be grateful for the explanation of how intentionally targeting civilians serves the goal of disrupting attacks on Ukrainian territory, given the fact that there were no military objects or infrastructure in the area.”