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STORY: UN / UKRAINE
TRT: 05:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 21 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
21 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, launched in violation of the UN Charter and international law, 11,973 civilians, including 622 children, have been killed. 25,943 people, including 1,686 children, have been injured.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“Distressingly, we have witnessed the resumption of Russian attacks on Ukrainian Black Sea ports in recent weeks. Since 1 September, these attacks damaged six civilian vessels as well as grain infrastructure in the ports, according to local officials. As a result, wheat prices have increased more than 6 percent between 1 September and 14 October.”
6. Med shot, Sergiy Kyslytsya
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations:
“Widespread and systematic reports of torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war remains a grave concern. Ninety-seven percent of Ukrainian prisoners interviewed by OHCHR since March 2023 provided consistent and detailed accounts of torture or ill-treatment during captivity. Sixty-eight percent reported sexual violence.”
8. Wide shot, Member States representatives
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, United States:
“We have seen reports the DPRK has sent forces and is preparing to send additional soldiers to Ukraine, to fight alongside Russia. If true, this marks a dangerous and highly concerning development and an obvious deepening of the DPRK-Russia military relationship. We are consulting with our allies on the implications of such a dramatic move. If Russia is indeed turning to the DPRK for manpower, it would be a sign of desperation on the part of the Kremlin.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“The problem is that the now expired Ukrainian president, who is clearly facing defeat on the battlefield, is now openly betting exclusively on dragging NATO into a direct rather than a proxy conflict with nuclear power.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“At the same time, he is advancing an open and blatant betrayal of the national interests of his own country. The so-called Peace Plan he openly declares a willingness to sell off what's left of Ukraine's natural wealth, which, incidentally, under Ukraine's constitution, would require a referendum and to use its citizens in future to guard the security of Europe in the place of American forces. But what is absent from Zelenskyy latest screenplay is even a hint at a willingness to step on the path of a genuine and long-term peace settlements to the conflict. He remains convinced, as in the case of his previous still-born initiatives, that the West must together with him develop some ultimatum plan and then impose it on Russia. How can such thinking be explained, other than as the regular use of strong narcotics is hard to say.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“All of Russia's might is a bluff. It's a gas station with a nuclear bomb. Since 2023 Pyongyang has been supplying weapons and munitions to Moscow, including ballistic missiles, in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions. In fact, the DPRK has become the main supplier of ammunition to Russia, thus fueling and prolonging its war against Ukraine. This is yet another blow to the myth of the Second Army of the world. The army, which is in reality, is begging from global outcasts, not only for weapons, but also for manpower. According to publicly available information, currently, 11,000 DPRK infantry troops are currently being trained in Russia's east. These troops are expected to be ready for war against Ukraine by November 1, whereas at the beginning of the invasion, most Russian citizens killed in the war were from indigenous peoples and other non-Russian ethnic communities now Moscow head hunts impoverished citizens from third countries, once again exposing the deeply racist Neo-colonial nature of this regime.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Stavros Lambrinidis, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations:
“As we approach the one thousandth day mark of Russia’s war of aggression, its civilian toll becomes even more deplorable. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented a 45 percent increase, 45 percent increase, in civilian casualties in June, July and August, compared with the previous three-month period. A shameful trend that continued into September.”
18. Wide shot, end of Security Council meeting
Briefing the Security Council today (21 Oct) Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Peace Affairs said, “widespread and systematic reports of torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war remains a grave concern. 97 percent of Ukrainian prisoners interviewed by OHCHR since March 2023 provided consistent and detailed accounts of torture or ill-treatment during captivity. 68 percent reported sexual violence.”
Jenča also highlighted the civilian toll of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, citing data from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Jenča said, “since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, launched in violation of the UN Charter and international law, 11,973 civilians, including 622 children, have been killed. 25,943 people, including 1,686 children, have been injured.”
He also raised concerns about renewed attacks on Ukrainian Black Sea ports, which have damaged six civilian vessels and grain infrastructure since September. “Wheat prices have increased more than six percent between 1 September and 14 October,” he noted, attributing the spike to these attacks.
In his remarks, Robert A. Wood, the United States’ Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, said reports indicate that North Korea has sent forces to Ukraine and may deploy more soldiers. Wood stated, “if true, this marks a dangerous and highly concerning development and an obvious deepening of the DPRK-Russia military relationship.” He called it “a sign of desperation on the part of the Kremlin.”
Russia’s Permanent Representative, Vasily Nebenzya, said, “the now expired Ukrainian president…is now openly betting exclusively on dragging NATO into a direct rather than a proxy conflict with a nuclear power,” Nebenzya said. He dismissed Ukraine’s Peace Plan as unrealistic, describing it as “another still-born initiative.”
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s Representative, responded by condemning Russia’s reliance on North Korean support. “Since 2023, Pyongyang has been supplying weapons and munitions to Moscow, including ballistic missiles,” Kyslytsya said, adding that “11,000 DPRK infantry troops are currently being trained in Russia's east” for deployment against Ukraine by November.
The European Union’s Stavros Lambrinidis emphasized the devastating civilian impact of the conflict. “The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented a 45 percent increase in civilian casualties in June, July, and August, compared with the previous three-month period,” he said, calling it “a shameful trend that continued into September.”
