# Vasily Nebenzya

Vasily Nebenzya (Born 26 February 1962) is a Russian diplomat and the current Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. His official title is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

## Quotes

* If anything represents a threat to peace and security, it is the shameless and aggressive actions of the United States and their allies to oust a legitimately elected president of Venezuela (Nicolas Maduro).
** Quoted in US attempting to engineer coup d’etat in Venezuela: Russia, PressTV (26 January 2019)
* You (Germany's delegate) have a very strange way of proposing to prevent this crisis by putting forward an absurd ultimatum. You completely disregard the sovereignty of Venezuela, imposing on it decisions that you prefer and rejecting its people the right to resolve their affairs. Germany’s delegate is calling the legitimate authorities of Venezuela to acknowledge defeat and transfer of power. What you are doing is not prevention, but incitement. How would you feel if the Russian Federation brought the situation and protests in France to the Council? The Russian Federation is proposing to help Venezuela resolve its own affairs.
** Quoted in With Venezuela Buckling under Severe Shortages, Security Council Emergency Session Calls for Political Solution to End Crisis, as Divisions Emerge over Path Forward: Foreign Minister Rejects Pressure by Self-Proclaimed President, Decries United States Attempts to Meddle in Domestic Affairs, United Nations News (26 January 2019)
* This deployment of Russian troops in our own territory is getting our Western and U.S. colleagues to say that there's going to be a planned military action and even an act of aggression ... A military action of Russia against Ukraine that they're all assuring us is going to take place in just a few weeks, if not a few days. There, however, is no proof confirming such a serious accusation whatsoever being put forward.
* This is despite the fact that we are constantly rejecting these allegations, and this is despite the fact that no threat of a planned invasion into Ukraine from the lips of any Russian politician or public figure over all of this period -- no such threat has been made. Rather, at all levels, we've been categorically rejecting such plans
** "Russia has no plans to invade Ukraine: ambassador", Xinhuanet, 1 February 2022
* Not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.
** Claimed about the Bucha massacre, quoted in "Ukraine Bucha: Satellite images show bodies left in the open", Herald Scotland, 5 April 2022
* Your thoughtless pumping of Ukraine with weapons leads only to the deaths of civilians, not only in Donbas but in Ukrainian cities.
** Said to Western leaders in response to providing means to Ukraine for defending itself against Russian attack, quoted in "Russias UN representative blames Ukraines air defence and US missiles for civilian casualties in Ukraine", Yahoo News, 24 November 2022
* We are attacking infrastructure facilities in Ukraine in response to the shelling of Ukraine with Western weapons and Kiev's reckless calls for a military victory over Russia.
* Damage to residential buildings and civilian casualties are due to the failure of the Ukrainian air defense
** "Russia attributes its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure to Western arms supplies", MSN, 24 November 2022
* The Russian Armed Forces do not fight against the civilian population and do not subject them, unlike the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to targeted strikes.
* Western countries are widely known for their love of the topic of fighting impunity, especially if it does not concern their own crimes
* All the solidarity of the West with Ukraine is not free, ordinary Ukrainians will have to return the money.
** “We are not at war with the civilian population”: Nebenzya lied at the UN Security Council about the actions of the Russian military (video)", Byri, 15 May 2023

## Quotes about Vasily Nebenzya

* Call Putin, call Lavrov to stop aggression.
* There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador.
** Sergiy Kyslytsya, UN Ambassador for Ukraine, quoted in "Read the impassioned plea from Ukraine's U.N. ambassador to Russia to stop the war", 24 March 2022
* Ambassador Nebenzya has called Kyiv the clients of the West. Actually, Kyiv is fighting to be independent of anybody.
    He calls them a criminal Kyiv regime. In fact, Ukraine has a democratically elected government.
    He calls them Nazis. Well, the president is Jewish, the defense minister is Muslim, and they have no political prisoners.
    He said that Ukraine was wallowing in corruption. Well, Aleksei Navalny documented how honest and full of probity his own country is.
    He blamed the war on US 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 Putin propagandists with nuclear annihilation. I put to you that it’s not irrational when Russia threatens us. We trust it.
    He said we are denying Russia's security interest. Not true, we only started rearming ourselves when Russia started invading her neighbours.
    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 in 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 August 1920? They were on a topographical excursion? No, the truth is that for every time that Russia has been invaded, she has invaded ten 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 "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 Yanukovich murdered a hundred of his compatriots, and he was removed from office by the 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 persuade 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 I, 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 demagoguery is unworthy of a member on a permanent basis on 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 will fail to subjugate Ukraine, and us, now.
   * Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish Foreeign Minister, in a speech in the United Nations Security Council, quoted and on video in "Watch Poland Debunk Putin’s Propaganda With This Powerful UN Speech", Mother Jones, February 25, 2024

## See Also

* Russia
* United Nations
* Vladimir Putin