Russia slams long-time diplomat who give up over struggle in Ukraine: ‘He’s in opposition to us’
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Russia on Tuesday slammed feedback made by one among its long-time diplomats to the UN who resigned this week over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s struggle in Ukraine.
“He isn’t with us, he’s in opposition to us,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised Moscow-based information shops Tuesday.
Boris Bondarev, who served within the Ministry of Overseas Affairs since 2002 and as Counselor of the Russian Mission to the UN Workplace at Geneva since 2019, introduced his resignation in a letter posted to LinkedIn.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks April 27 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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“For twenty years of my diplomatic profession I’ve seen completely different turns of our international coverage, however by no means have I been so ashamed of my nation as on February 24 of this 12 months,” he wrote.
Bondarev stated the “aggressive struggle unleashed by Putin” posed not solely a risk to Ukraine, however to a free Russian society.
In a scathing letter, he accused Kremlin officers of looking for to “stay in energy ceaselessly” and “reside in pompous tasteless palaces.”
Peskov pushed again on the Russian diplomat and claimed Putin’s struggle in Ukraine is supported by the vast majority of Russians.
“Mr. Bondarev is now not with us,” Peskov stated. “He’s important of the Russian management’s insurance policies, that are supported by virtually the entire inhabitants of our nation.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE: A cemetery employee waits in a truck earlier than colleagues begin to load the corpses of civilians killed in Bucha, earlier than transporting them to the morgue, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
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“Consequently, this gentleman has come out in opposition to our nation’s consolidated opinion,” he added.
Bondarev accused the Kremlin of using 1930-Soviet period propaganda practices and claimed he has seen the lies it employs on its nation mount lately.
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“I remorse to confess that general these twenty years the extent of lies and unprofessionalism within the work of the Overseas Ministry has been rising on a regular basis. Nonetheless, in most up-to-date years, this has turn out to be merely catastrophic,” he stated.
Russia has relied on a litany of propagandist techniques to garner assist and defend the truth of the struggle from its personal inhabitants.
Putin has but to completely declare struggle on Ukraine and continues to allege it’s a “particular army operation” levied to root out Nazism in Ukraine, although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish and was democratically elected.
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The our bodies of unidentified males, believed to be Russian troopers, organized in a Z, a logo of the Russian invasion, lie close to a village lately retaken by Ukrainian forces on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Could 2.
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Reviews of cell crematoriums first surfaced within the early days of the struggle as an alleged try to cover the variety of troopers killed in Ukraine.
Russia additionally stifled anti-war protests and threatened hundreds of Russian demonstrators with jail time.
