Briefing by Ambassador Albert P. Khorev on the situation in and around Ukraine (September 23, 2025)
🔸️Three rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks produced positive results regarding prisoner exchanges but revealed Kiev’s unwillingness to discuss the technical details and verification procedures of a potential ceasefire.
🔸️Ukraine and its sponsors need the truce to regroup and rearm their army with the help of European military and financial aid, which has amounted to approximately $70.2 billion since the start of the special military operation.
🔸️By insisting on organizing Russia-Ukraine summit, Zelensky, whose presidential mandate expired in May 2024, seeks to legitimize himself. The former comedian follows his old habit of making a show out of everything. Russia does not want to participate in comedic performances. We are interested in having a professional discussion about the specifics of lasting peace.
🔸️Lasting peace in Ukraine requires addressing the root causes of the conflict. This includes abandoning Kiev’s neo-Nazi policies, ending the oppression of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine, halting Zelensky’s crusade against the Orthodox Church, preventing NATO from expanding eastward, and keeping NATO troops out of Ukraine.
🔸️Amidst huge losses and retreats across the entire line of contact, the Kiev leadership has resorted to organizing terrorist acts in an attempt to intimidate Russia. The despicable and cowardly actions of the Kiev regime do not affect the combat capability of the Russian Armed Forces, who continue to advance steadily in Donbass.
🔸️Since 2022, the Kiev regime has undergone a political transformation. It established a harsh, authoritarian system of government characterized by an absolute monopoly on power, extrajudicial killings, total censorship, and state propaganda.
🔸️Today, Ukrainian citizens are effectively deprived of most of the rights and freedoms that exist around the world.
🔸️Kiev is actively campaigning to destroy all Soviet, and therefore its own, memorial heritage in honor of those who fought against Nazism, while at the same time intensifying efforts to falsify the history of World War II in order to justify Nazism.
🔸️The vast majority of countries worldwide share Russia’s stance against the glorification of Nazism and the justification of racism. In 2024, 119 countries, including Pakistan, supported the relevant Russian UN resolution.
🔸️Since the 2014 coup in Kiev, the UN Secretariat, led by António Guterres, has consistently aligned itself with the Westerners biased anti-Russian stance in the context of the Ukrainian crisis. At the same time, despite the global majority’s position on the situation in the Middle East, its leadership refrains from taking active steps or publicly criticizing Israel or the U.S., thus consistently violating the principle of impartiality enshrined in Article 100 of the UN Charter.
🔸️In Alaska, Russia has once again demonstrated its commitment to achieving a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. The leaders of Russia and the United States have shown their willingness to compromise for the sake of lasting peace.
🔸️Zelensky and Co. completely rejected the mutual understanding achieved in Anchorage and the outlines of a possible peace process in Ukraine. We see Ukraine and European countries doing everything they can to sabotage a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
🔸️The myth of potential “Russian aggression” against NATO countries is being actively promoted in Europe. It benefits Zelensky and European warmongers who have no interest in resolving the conflict. Russia is not interested in escalating tensions with Poland and other NATO states.
🔸️I would like to thank the Government of Pakistan once again for its consistent policy of neutrality in the Ukraine conflict, including at the UN, despite pressure from external forces.