UNITED NATIONS, February 24. /TASS/. Moscow takes note of ongoing discussions in European capitals and institutions about best ways of splitting and destroying Russia, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya told the UN Security Council.

"Of course, we used to suspect that behind the European exterior there was some dormant Russophobia, but to say frankly, we could never imagine what scale it would assume once released. It is not limited to an obsessive desire to defeat Russia on the battlefield with the hands of Ukrainians. It goes down way deeper. In order to please the most primitive Russophobes from among Poles and Balts, European capitals and European institutions hold events where ways to dismember and disintegrate our country are discussed," the Russian diplomat said.

"Against the backdrop of steps aimed at ‘cancellation of Russia,’ its culture, arts, and sports, we are developing a rather unambiguous image of our European neighbors. And what we see makes us want to shut the door or maybe board it up until this bigotry and Russophobic mayhem are over," he went on.

"Russia has been declared the main and only threat to European security. Speculations about possibilities of building a shared security architecture with Russia have become a taboo, one can only talk about collective security against Russia," Nebenzya continued. "To any questions, Brussels would answer that Russia only has itself to blame."

"However these assertions founder on a simple fact: it was Russia who, on the eve of the Ukrainian crisis, had consistently offered to the West to sign agreements on mutual security guarantees, and promoted proposals regarding all-encompassing and indivisible security across the Euro-Atlantics. But all those were arrogantly rejected," he added.