The Russian Embassy in Dhaka issued a statement regarding a publication in an English-language Bangladeshi newspaper signed by 14 heads of diplomatic missions.
The statement is given below-
Our attention was drawn to a publication in an English-language Bangladeshi newspaper signed by 14 heads of diplomatic missions. The idea of the article is that Russia, without solid evidence, is accused of “aggression”, “invasion” and “illegal war in Ukraine”, which, they say, led to the disruption of Ukrainian grain supply chains to the world. markets and, as a result, destroyed the global security architecture.
Let’s start with the fact that on February 24, 2022, the decision to conduct a special military operation (OMS) was made in accordance with Article 51 (Chapter VII) of the UN Charter, with the authorization of the Federation Council of Russia and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22.
Recall that following the bloody coup of 2014, a radical change in the socio-political system occurred in Ukraine. The Ukrainian state began to be built on the Nazi narrative of the denial of everything Russian, including the identity, culture and traditions of the population of the country’s vast southern and eastern territories. .
The horrifying facts have become very clear: according to official UN statistics, between 2014 and 2022, 12,000 people were killed in Ukraine, most of them in Donbass. American and European officials, who now baselessly accuse Russia of having committed war crimes, have preferred to turn a blind eye to the acts of genocide against the Russian-speaking population and to the deliberate Nazification in Ukraine.
Russian military and political leaders have repeatedly stated that Russian troops do not strike civilian objects, unlike the Kiev regime, which has repeatedly attacked our country’s transport and social infrastructure. The Crimean Bridge was attacked twice (in October 2022 and in July 2023). The kyiv regime and the West know well that this bridge is mainly used by tourists. 1,091 civilians, including children, died and 3,533 were injured in 2022 in the Donetsk People’s Republic due to the incessant shelling of cities by the Ukrainian army.
Regarding the so-called “atrocities committed by Russian soldiers”, it must be stated that all these accusations are provocative in nature and fabricated. A good example is the organized killings of civilians in Bucha. Russia has repeatedly asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to intercede and demand that Kiev publish the names of those whose bodies the Kiev regime presented to the international community in early April of last year. Silence was the only response. No reaction. It is not a surprise. The West today is a veritable “empire of lies”. The West refused to disclose the facts in all other cases, such as the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. All proposals for transparent investigations have been blocked.
With the beginning of the SMO, the kyiv regime began to resort to terrorist methods everywhere and regularly. Using Western weapons, Ukrainian neo-Nazis bomb residential neighborhoods. They resupply firing positions and deploy weapons depots to schools, hospitals and residential buildings, using civilians as a “living shield.” They also shoot refugees and prisoners of war.
It is strange to hear accusations from Western diplomats against Russia, which ostensibly uses food as a weapon. We would like to remind that, according to data published by the European Commission and the statistical office Eurostat (available in the public domain), in 2022, imports of cereals into the EU compared to 2021 in value increased by 106% (from 6 to 12.7 billion euros). This trend continued in 2023, with growth of 46% in the first half. At the same time, EU grain exports only increased in value by 41% in 2022 and even less than 5% in the first quarter of 2023. There is therefore every reason to say that the EU is actively buying cereals on foreign markets, including Ukraine. The objective is obvious: to build up cereal food reserves and obtain additional financial support from exports of processed cereal products.
Ukraine remains one of the main suppliers of grain to the EU. In the first eight weeks of the 2023/2024 agricultural year, the EU has already purchased 488,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat (almost three times more than in the same period of the previous year). According to the European Commission, as of August 2023, since the launch of the SMO, more than 60% of Ukrainian grain exports passed through the so-called “solidarity corridors”. The above figures confirm that the European Union has deliberately used the Black Sea Initiative to ensure its own food security, as well as to obtain additional export revenues through the sale of grain and processed products to the ‘stranger.
It is even stranger to hear Western diplomats say that “Russia’s continued attacks will cause long-term damage to Ukraine’s agricultural sector.” This is another attempt to turn things upside down. One would like to ask: deliveries by the United States to the Kiev regime of cluster munitions and depleted uranium shells, which are used on the territory of the new entities of the Russian Federation – the Republic Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions pose a threat to environmental security?
It is enough to recall the NATO aggression in Yugoslavia, where the Americans and Europeans used approximately 2,000 cluster bombs containing 380,000 submunitions banned in many countries (the Convention on Cluster Munitions is signed by Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, etc.). The amount of depleted uranium that reached the Balkan states during NATO aggression would be enough to create 170 atomic bombs like the one the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
The most common consequences of depleted uranium on human health are thyroid diseases, malignant diseases and various fetal mutations during pregnancy. The use of depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans and later in the Persian Gulf led to contamination of the global environment not only at the bombing sites but also thousands of miles away.
This is a further confirmation of the current policy of the West of exploiting countries for its own resources in order to secure its claims to world domination, maintaining a high level of its own well-being, domination military and economic.
Against the backdrop of attempts to deny Russian energy sources, coal-fired generation and the use of traditional fuels increased in many EU countries in 2021-2022, jeopardizing plans for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, on the international stage, Westerners continue to urge the rest of the world to accelerate the energy transition solely through renewable energy sources and abandon fossil fuels.
Note that the “collective work” of 14 Western diplomats was published on the day of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larov’s working visit to Dhaka. During his talks with his counterpart HEAKA Momen and HE Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister, he made detailed comments on the reasons for launching the SMO, the current situation around and in Ukraine, and the conditions for carrying out the special operation ( demilitarization, denazification of Ukraine). Ukraine, its non-aligned status, recognition of the new territories and Crimea as part of Russia).
Western attempts to smear our country in the eyes of the Bangladeshi people will fail. Russia remains and will be a reliable and proven friend of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.