🎙Statement by Ms. Iulia ZHDANOVA, Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, at the 1151st Plenary Meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation October 28, 2026 Agenda item: “General statements” Subject: “Special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine” • On October 22, representatives of Ukraine circulated a note verbale calling on OSCE participating States to refrain from attending the telebridge entitled “Zaporozhye Region: the Escalation of the Terrorist War by the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, organized by our Delegation together with R. V. Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that same day. They accused the Russian Delegation of providing false information and stated that the event was inconsistent with the Forum’s format. We remind you that the work in the #OSCE’s politico-military dimension, which you profess to safeguard so carefully, was undermined long ago by the Ukrainian side itself and those who support it. • The international telebridge was successfully held, with participants joining from almost all the countries represented here. People want to know the truth about Ukraine’s crimes and about how Western weapons kill women and children. We not only told them that truth, but showed it to them. • Energodar is actually on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. Between May and October, more than 300 civilian vehicles in Energodar were destroyed or seriously damaged. Transformers and electrical equipment at the city’s substations have been destroyed, which, together with the destruction of the region’s energy infrastructure, has led to severe restrictions on electricity supplies to residents. The energy blockade is getting worse because of constant strikes and the destruction of generating equipment, including that serving shops, kindergartens, schools and the medical unit. • Ukraine is committing energy genocide throughout the Zaporozhye Region. According to the leadership of the region’s Ministry of Energy, the #AFU have so far destroyed 98% of all high-voltage equipment in the region and 25% of its low-voltage equipment. Drones constantly attack repair crews. In less than a year, four power grid workers have already been killed and 10 injured. • Ukraine’s war criminals are destroying ambulances. To date, every single vehicle in the fleet of the Melitopol emergency medical service has come under UAV attack; 36 ambulances have been put out of service, 10 of them beyond repair. The savage and deranged Kiev executioners have launched a hunt for ordinary civilians and, most horrifyingly, children. • The British FSC Chairpersonship recommended that participating States give greater attention to the application of the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security in conflict situations. How can the killing of medics, the hunting of women and children, psychological pressure and the killing of specialists working at a critical infrastructure facility be reconciled with good-faith implementation of the Code, or with the image of Ukraine as “a source of inspiration in upholding international humanitarian law”, as some delegations here seek to portray it? • By supplying arms to and financing the Kiev regime, training the #AFU, sharing intelligence and sending their military advisers to plan military operations with horrific consequences for the population, assisting with the maintenance of weapons systems and the identification of targets for strikes on Russian territory, and providing diplomatic cover for the regime’s leader and the war crimes committed by its armed formations, #EU and #NATO states bear full responsibility for prolonging the conflict and for the ongoing violations of IHL against women and children, as well as for civilian deaths. Delegation on social media: 💙VK 💬Telegram 💬 X📺YouTube📺Rutube 💬Facebook