After Failed Blitzkrieg, Russian Invaders Shift to Plan B – Kyslytsia
The Russians are trying to cause a humanitarian catastrophe throughout Ukraine.
The Russian occupiers failed in a blitzkrieg: to seize the territory of Ukraine at once and establish their power here. So now we are moving towards Plan B: create a humanitarian catastrophe throughout Ukraine.
This was stated by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, on March 29 at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
“After the failure of their initial blitzkrieg plan, the Russian troops switched to Plan B. This plan is to provoke a humanitarian catastrophe throughout Ukraine and destroy the agricultural potential of my country in order to intimidate the Ukrainian political leadership and people and persuade them to give up,” Kyslytsia said.
He noted that “the range of tools is wide and extremely brutal. It includes the deliberate destruction of residential areas and critical infrastructure, firing rockets across the country, sieges of cities, violations of humanitarian corridor agreements, terror against civilians in occupied areas, including kidnappings and assassinations So far, the occupiers have kidnapped around 30 local leaders, activists and journalists.”
In total, Russia has launched more than 1,200 ballistic, cruise and supersonic missiles in Ukraine, 467 of them in residential areas.
“Mariupol remains a bleeding wound in the heart of Europe. According to the local authorities, at least 5,000 people have died. Nearly 150,000 people remain besieged, deprived of basic living conditions. They must be evacuated, but not to the territory of the aggressor. Russia’s attempts to do so “is not only cynical hypocrisy, but also a serious violation of the laws and customs of war, international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions Some 40,000 Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia and Belarus,” Kyslytsia said.
At the same time, the Russian occupiers are firing at the evacuation columns trying to leave Mariupol for the unoccupied territory of Ukraine.
According to UNICEF, during the month of the war in Ukraine, 4.3 million children had to be transferred (a total of 7.5 million children in the country), 1.8 million of them went abroad. Russian occupiers killed at least 143 children and wounded 216.
“Humanitarian action is urgently needed. At the same time, it should be noted that the humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine is an element of Russia’s military strategy. To be effective, any initiative must aim to shift Russia’s overall approach to Ukraine. partner on the humanitarian path,” Kyslytsia said.
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