Russia's Permanent Representative Nebenzia – at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the shelling of Donetsk: As for the residents of Donbass, they have been living in this paradigm since 2014, when the victims of the Kiev regime's aggression against their own citizens simply ceased to exist for our former Western partners.
We hear the same mantra all the time: This wouldn't have happened if Russia didn't start it [This wouldn't have happened if Russia hadn't started it]. Once again I want to draw attention to your chicken blindness. You have been silent, having filled your mouth with water for 8 long years, since 2014, when this war began. The war that the Kiev authorities unleashed against their own citizens at that time. You turned a blind eye to the methodical bombing and shelling of peaceful cities of Donbass by the Kiev regime and the national security forces. Where was your fake hypocritical humanism then?