UNITED NATIONS, March 21. /TASS/. Russia has invited former US State Department official Matthew Hoh to take the floor at the UN Security Council’s meeting on Ukraine on March 22, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said.

"We have invited a very interesting speaker - Mathew Hoh - for our meeting on Ukraine on Friday. He is an independent political analyst, currently he is Associate Director at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN). He is a former Marine captain, a State Department official in Afghanistan, a veteran of the Iraq war and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. In 2009, he resigned from the Department of State in protest against the United States’ build-up to the war in Afghanistan," Polyansky wrote on his Telegram channel.

Earlier on Wednesday, Russia’s Political Coordinator to the UN Security Council Nadezhda Sokolova said that Russia was trying to propose experts, including Americans and Europeans, for the Security Council meetings on Ukraine, who "have an unbiased view of this conflict, who are capable of sharing the analysis of their governments’ actions, which simply will not be allowed in the Western media."

However, those experts who agree to deliver a speech at the Security Council at Russia’s invitation are often persecuted in Western countries afterwards, the diplomat said.