UN diplomats, officials salute courage of Ukraine's women
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On International Women's Day at a UN Security Council meeting focusing on empowering women economically in conflict areas, speakers from a number of countries decried Russia's war on neighbouring Ukraine, and its impact on women.
It was International Women's Day on Wednesday and at a UN Security Council meeting focusing on empowering women economically in conflict areas speakers from a number of countries decried Russia's war on neighbouring Ukraine, and its impact on women.
Russian deputy ambassador Gennady Kuzmin responded, lashing out at sanctions on his country which hit "first and foremost at the interests of women in the social and economic areas."
And he accused "a cold Western world" of looking on with indifference for eight years at what he called "the murders perpetrated by the Kyiv junta against women and children in Donetsk and Luhansk and their persecution by the Ukrainian radicals and neo-Nazis in the east and southeast of Ukraine."
In addition, he said, towns and villages in those Russian-backed separatist areas were being bombed "and the Kyiv regime managed to get away with all of it."
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