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Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN read a series of texts from the phone of a deceased Russian soldier during an emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Monday, a series of texts describing the brutal reality of the war and the soldier’s own unsuspecting reaction to seeing Ukrainian civilians. who resist Russian forces.
“Mom, I’m not in Crimea anymore,” Ukraine’s Sergei Kislitsya began as he picked up a screenshot of the lyrics, according to C-SPAN. “I’m not training. Mom, I’m in Ukraine.”
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“A real war is raging here. I’m afraid,” the soldier said, according to the ambassador. “We are bombing all the cities together, even targeting civilians.”
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2022/01/31: Ukrainian Ambassador Sergei Kislitsa speaks during a meeting of the National Assembly on the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian borders at UN headquarters.
(Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
“We were told that they would greet us, and they fell under our armored vehicles, threw themselves under the wheels and did not allow us to pass.
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“They call us fascists. Mom. It’s so hard,” he added.
Soldier to his mother:
“I am afraid. We are bombing all the cities together, targeting civilians. We were told that they would meet us – they fell under 🇷🇺armored vehicles, threw themselves under the wheels, did not allow us to pass They call us fascists. It’s so hard”. pic.twitter.com/AY11GH7dKH– Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine @ (@MFA_Ukraine) March 1, 2022
According to Kislica, the texts were sent in the “last moments” of the soldier’s life.
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In his speech, the Ukrainian ambassador then compared the Russian invasion of his country to World War II and the German invasion of Poland.
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2022/02/21: Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Sergei Kislitsya informed the media after an extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly about the situation on the borders between Ukraine and Russia at UN headquarters.
(Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
“Very clear parallels can be drawn with the beginning of World War II,” he said, according to the Daily Mail. “And Russia’s way of acting is very similar to what their Third Reich spiritual mentors used on Ukrainian soil eight years ago.”