UNITED NATIONS, March 31. /TASS/. The situation in Ukraine would have been peacefully resolved a long time ago had the US and its allies stopped flooding the Kiev regime with weapons, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said on Friday.
"Peace could have been established in Ukraine a long time ago if the US and its allies had not flooded the Kiev regime with arms and had not forced it to toss thousands of new conscripts into the senseless slaughter," he said at a session of the UN Security Council.
That said, the diplomat pointed out that the Ukrainian conflict would not have happened at all had Washington and its allies not organized a coup in Kiev in 2014. "Russian tanks would not have come to Ukraine and Ukrainian soldiers would not have been dying for foreign, alien geopolitical interests if the US and its allies had not carried out an unconstitutional coup d’etat in Kiev in 2014 and brought Russophobes, nationalists and Nazis to power, had not armed them and readied them for war against Russia under the cover of the Minsk Accords," the Russian envoy noted. "And had they not covered up their crimes against the Russian-speaking population in eastern and southern Ukraine," he added.
Nebenzya stressed that Western countries are trying to impose on the international community a set of rules that benefit only them and, at the same time, do not consider themselves to have any obligations. "The unscrupulousness and inconsistency of the collective West with regard both to the situation in Ukraine and to other international issues vividly illustrates the very essence of the so-called rules-based order, which has nothing to do with international law," he said. "This way, Western countries are simply trying to impose their own rules that are beneficial only to them, in order to demand strict adherence to them from other countries. And, naturally, they do not consider themselves bound by any obligations whatsoever," the Russian diplomat concluded.