Transscript of @radeksikorski s excellent speech xitter.cf/dali_ania/status… And I now give the floor to his Excellency Mr Radoslav Sikorski Minister for foreign affairs of Poland Madame President, I associate myself with the words of minister Kuleba of Ukraine and my colleagues from the European Union, but I am amazed at the tone and the content of the presentation by the Russian Ambassador. and I thought I could be useful by correcting the record. Ambassador Nebenzya has called Kyiv "The clients of the West", actually Kyiv is fighting to be independent of anybody. He calls them a criminal Kiev regime, in fact Ukraine has a democratically elected government. He calls them Nazis. Well the president is Jewish, the defense minister is Muslim and and they have no political prisoners. He said that Ukraine was wallowing in corruption, well Alexei Navalny documented how "honest and full of propriety" his own country is. He blamed the war on us, on neocolonialism, in fact it is Russia that tried to exterminate Ukraine in the 19th century, again under the Bolsheviks and it's the third attempt. He said that we are prisoners of russophobia. Phobia means irrational fear, yet we are being threatened almost every day, by the former president of Russia and by Putins propagandists with nuclear annihilation. I put to you that it's not irrational, when Russia threaten threatens us, we trust it. He said that we are denying Russia's security interests. Not true we've only started rearming ourselves when Russia started invading her neighbors. He even said that Poland attacked Russia during World War II. What is he talking about? It is the Soviet Union that attacked Poland TOGETHER with Nazi Germany on the 17th of September 1939, they even held a joint Victory Parade on the 22nd of September. He says that Russia has always only beaten back aggression. What were Russian troops doing at the gates of Warsaw in August 1920. They were on a topographical Excursion? No the truth is, that for every time that Russia has been invaded, she has invaded 10 times. He says that this is a perfidious proxy war by the West. My advice is don't fall into the Western trap, withdraw your troops to the international border and avoid this um Western plot. He also says that there was an illegal coup in Ukraine in Kyiv in 2014. Well I was there. There was no coup. President Yanukovych MURDERED a hundred of his compatriots and he was removed from office by a democratically elected Ukrainian Parliament, INCLUDING his own party, the party of regions. And finally he is saying, that we, the West are somehow trying to be persuaded that Russia can never be beaten. Well Russia didn't win the Crimean War. It didn't win the Russo Japanese war. It didn't win World War 1. It didn't win the Battle of Warsaw. It didn't win in Afghanistan and it didn't win the Cold War, but there is good news, after each failure there were reforms. Such demagogy is unworthy of a member on a permanent basis on of the the security Council, but what the Ambassador has achieved is to remind us why we resisted Soviet domination and what Ukraine is resisting now. They failed to subjugate us then, they'll fail to subjugate Ukraine and us now. Thank you very much.