All four countries voted in favor of the resolution condemning Russia's aggression.Īlong with calling out supposed "hypocrisy" on the resolution, Nebenzia said the information being disseminated about the conflict is inaccurate. Nebenzia accused the United States, Poland, France and Germany of conniving with Ukrainians in a coup. It snowballed into a revolution that overthrew the government, sparking a counterrevolution in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea. The "Revolution of Honor" began with students pushing then-President Yanukovych and then-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to sign an agreement with the European Union. Nebenzia targeted the resolution for not mentioning the "illegal coup" in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, in 2014. Above, Nebenzia speaks to the media after leaving a U.N. Vassily Nebenzia invoked former President Donald Trump's stolen election claims during a speech at the United Nations on Wednesday. Russia forcefully rejected the resolution, calling claims the country was targeting civilians "fake" and saying other countries were hypocritical for supporting the resolution.Īn edited clip of Nebenzia's remarks was posted to Twitter and his comment about the United States "where the legitimately elected president of the country was overthrown" was widely misinterpreted to be a reference to Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. passed a resolution Wednesday that condemned Russia's invasion and called for an immediate and complete withdrawal of all military forces from Ukraine. Vassily Nebenzia, Russia's ambassador to the U.N., criticized other countries including the United States for failing to condemn the 2014 overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Russian Ukrainian president who was ousted by Ukraine's government after months of protests. Russia tried on Wednesday to delegitimize United Nations' criticism of its invasion of Ukraine by calling into question the West's actions in a previous conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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