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STORY: UN / UKRAINE RUSSIA
TRT: 05:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 29 JUNE 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior, United Nations flag outside UN Headquarters
29 JUNE 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Assistant Secretary-General Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee at the Council dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO):
“Over the past few weeks, the intensity and scope of attacks by the Russian Federation against Ukraine have increased significantly, causing greater civilian casualties and damage. Only today, at least 15 people were reportedly killed across Ukraine due to Russian aerial strikes.”
5. Med shot, Belarus Ambassador Valentin Rybakov
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO):
“Drone strikes on industrial, military and energy sites have also reportedly continued to result in civilian casualties inside the Russian Federation. As we briefed this Council on 17th June, a drone strike reportedly hit a bus carrying a Belarusian youth soccer team in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. According to Russian and Belarusian authorities, one pregnant woman was killed and nine people, six of them children, were injured. The United Nations does not have additional information about the incident.”
7. Med shot, Ukraine Ambassador Khrystyna Hayovyshyn
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO):
“We are alarmed by the recent escalatory rhetoric and potential for further spillover of this war. Everything must be done to prevent this from happening. We therefore urge the Russian Federation, Ukraine and all concerned member States to avoid any steps that could cause this war, either intentionally or unintentionally, to spread further.”
9. Wide shot, Council
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“The Zelensky regime thinks that it is important for them today, today, to show the successes of their armed forces, to make sure that there is more Western weaponry coming into the country and a great deal of money. At the same time, the Western sponsors of the regime consider the support of the regime as beneficial commercially and geopolitically. In reality, there are no successes on the front line, and the possibility of forcibly mobilizing the Ukrainian armed forces is going down consistently. Therefore, the picture which is being painted by the mass media is only being fed by the drone strikes against civilian targets.”
11. Wide shot, Rybakov addressing Council
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentin Rybakov, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Belarus:
“This is a tragedy for dozens of families in Belarus. And this is the kind of loss that it is impossible to make up. This was a deliberate act of violence and aggression directed against the civilian population, against children who were going to rest and engage in athletic activities. Already, now, it can be stated with full confidence that the strike on the bus was not the result of accidental or random actions that entailed collateral damage in their wake. The attack was guided and controlled.”
13. Wide shot, Rybakov addressing Council
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentin Rybakov, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Belarus:
“Belarus does not participate in the armed conflict. Any attempts of exerting pressure or intimidation, ultimatums and threats against Belarus and its leadership are unacceptable.”
15. Wide shot, Hayovyshyn addressing Council
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Khrystyna Hayovyshyn, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine Ambassador:
“We will not allow the Russian Federation and its war ally, Belarus, to use the Security Council to spread false narratives, propaganda and disinformation, or divert attention from their ongoing aggression and the grave crimes they commit against Ukraine. Let me remind the Council of one essential fact. Since the very first day of Russia's full scale military invasion on 24th February 2022, Belarus has been a direct accomplice to this aggression. It provided its territory for the invasion from the north and has continued to support the Russian war effort ever since.”
17. Wide shot, Hayovyshyn addressing Council
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Khrystyna Hayovyshyn, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine Ambassador:
“The Security Service of Ukraine has reportedly intercepted an official Russian document indicating the absence of any Ukrainian involvement in the incident involving the bus carrying Belarussian citizens in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. This document, an information report issued by the Monitoring Centre of the State Treasury Institution of the Bryansk Region notes that no Ukrainian UAVs were present in the relevant airspace at the time of the incident.”
19. Wide shot, end of meeting
Assistant Secretary-General Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee today (29 Jun) expressed alarm at “the recent escalatory rhetoric and potential for further spillover “of the Ukraine war, and said, “everything must be done to prevent this from happening.”
Briefing the Security Council, Pobee said increased attacks by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in recent weeks have caused “greater civilian casualties and damage,” and added that “only today, at least 15 people were reportedly killed across Ukraine due to Russian aerial strikes.”
She said, “drone strikes on industrial, military and energy sites have also reportedly continued to result in civilian casualties inside the Russian Federation.”
Pobee, who is Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO) said, “a drone strike reportedly hit a bus carrying a Belarusian youth soccer team in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. According to Russian and Belarusian authorities, one pregnant woman was killed and nine people, six of them children, were injured.”
She stressed the United Nations “does not have additional information about the incident.”
Pobee urged the Russian Federation, Ukraine and “all concerned member States to avoid any steps that could cause this war, either intentionally or unintentionally, to spread further.”
Russian Ambassador Anna Evstigneeva for her part said, “the Zelensky regime thinks that it is important for them today, today, to show the successes of their armed forces, to make sure that there is more Western weaponry coming into the country and a great deal of money. At the same time, the Western sponsors of the regime consider the support of the regime as beneficial commercially and geopolitically. In reality, there are no successes on the front line, and the possibility of forcibly mobilizing the Ukrainian armed forces is going down consistently. Therefore, the picture which is being painted by the mass media is only being fed by the drone strikes against civilian targets.”
On the drone attack on the bus carrying Byelorussian youth, Belarus Ambassador Valentin Rybakov said, “this was a deliberate act of violence and aggression directed against the civilian population, against children who were going to rest and engage in athletic activities.”
Rybakov said, “it can be stated with full confidence that the strike on the bus was not the result of accidental or random actions that entailed collateral damage in their wake. The attack was guided and controlled.”
The Ambassador said, “Belarus does not participate in the armed conflict. Any attempts of exerting pressure or intimidation, ultimatums and threats against Belarus and its leadership are unacceptable.”
Finally, Ukraine Ambassador Khrystyna Hayovyshyn said, “we will not allow the Russian Federation and its war ally, Belarus, to use the Security Council to spread false narratives, propaganda and disinformation, or divert attention from their ongoing aggression and the grave crimes they commit against Ukraine.”
Hayovyshyn said, “since the very first day of Russia's full scale military invasion on 24th February 2022, Belarus has been a direct accomplice to this aggression. It provided its territory for the invasion from the north and has continued to support the Russian war effort ever since.”
Furthermore, she said, “the Security Service of Ukraine has reportedly intercepted an official Russian document indicating the absence of any Ukrainian involvement in the incident involving the bus carrying Belarussian citizens in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. This document, an information report issued by the Monitoring Centre of the State Treasury Institution of the Bryansk Region notes that no Ukrainian UAVs were present in the relevant airspace at the time of the incident.”
