What happened? On the evening of Tuesday, September 24, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski spoke at the UN Security Council summit in New York. The politician addressed, among others, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya.
What did the Polish minister say? The Foreign Minister pointed out that the Russian side "likes to refer to the democratically elected government of Ukraine as Nazis". He added:
It so happens that I live three kilometers from the site of a former Nazi filtration camp from World War II in Poland. It is known that thousands of children from Poland and the Soviet Union were imprisoned there. (...) Up to 800 of these children died, but thousands were transported west to be Germanized – blonde, blue-eyed, Aryan children deemed racially suitable.
Sikorski then asked: "So I have a few questions for the Russian ambassador and his superiors. How is what you are doing to the kidnapped Ukrainian children different from what the German Nazis did to your children and ours?". He emphasized that abducting children is a crime equivalent to genocide.
Radosław Sikorski stated: "The permanent members of the Security Council should be the guardians of peace, not wage wars against the children of other nations. This is Russia's shame, and it will neither be forgiven nor forgotten" - the Polish Foreign Minister said.
The minister also called out the ambassador's lies:
The Russian Ambassador predicted that we would hear the usual statements dictated by Brussels during this session. That is a lie - I assure you, I wrote what you are about to hear myself. The Russian Ambassador claims that Russia does not drop bombs on civilians - this is the second lie. Two weeks ago, I visited the Ukrainian city of Lviv, where Kalibr missiles fell. Here is the result: a man lost his wife and three daughters (...). All the victims were civilians, living far from the front lines
- said Sikorski, showing a photo of a bombed building in Lviv.
The minister’s second photograph: "Since Ambassador Nebenzya denies Soviet-Nazi collaboration during the invasion of Brest in 1939, here is a picture of their joint parade. I'm sure you recognize the Soviet uniforms," Sikorski said, displaying a photograph of the joint victory parade of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Brest, related to the handover of the city captured by the Germans to the Soviets as part of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.
