The Russian Federation has initiated an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on December 27 to present "fresh ideas" on the war in Ukraine. The title of the event was announced: "10 years of Euromaidan in Ukraine: a step into the abyss". This is reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, according to UNN.
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According to the DIU, on December 27, Russia plans to hold an informal meeting of the UN Security Council under the so-called "Arria formula."
"The Arria Formula is a format of informal meetings where representatives of countries can exchange views. Such meetings involve participants who are not involved in diplomatic work. At the same time, as noted in the study, this format can be useful when diplomats need to discuss controversial issues frankly outside of official procedures.
During the meeting, the Russians will once again try to "convey" to the audience the traditional narratives about the "neo-Nazi nature of the Kyiv regime and its armed forces." Other topics to be discussed include: "the history of Nazism in Ukraine and its current state", "crimes of nationalist battalions against civilians in eastern and southern Ukraine"
As noted, the document submitted to the UN Secretary-General also repeats traditional Russian propaganda wording. The central message of the "presentation": "inspiration of Euromaidan by Western countries and the United States". Accordingly, the war is justified by plans to "protect civilians in eastern and southern Ukraine".
кремль надсилає українцям за кордоном провокативні повідомлення - ГУР27.12.23, 15:48
Vitaliy Zakharchenko, the Minister of Internal Affairs under Yanukovych, Dmytro Sabin, one of the Berkut commanders, and Russian propagandists Maxim Grigoriev and Mikhail Khazin were invited to the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya.
According to the DIU, the interest in the announced event on the part of the UN Security Council members is extremely low. Most of them will be represented by so-called "experts". That is, advisers or second secretaries. They are not in the mood to "listen to Zakharchenko in a useful way", instead they intend to express the position of their states on the "real state of affairs".
It seems that the event itself is designed mainly for the "domestic" Russian audience, as the interest of the international media is practically zero. It is planned to be broadcast only on some websites and social networks
The intelligence service emphasized that the meeting is apparently part of the program of Putin's "elections" scheduled for March 2024. According to Russian propagandists, it will be useful for the electorate to know that the theses justifying the war in Ukraine will be presented at the UN. And the "intimate" informal status will allow to get rid of caustic comments from international diplomats about the latest nonsense about "fighting mosquitoes" and "American biolabs"