UNITED NATIONS, April 20. /TASS/. Calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine are aimed at giving Kiev military units a chance to rest and regroup, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky told the UN Security Council session on Ukraine on Tuesday.
During the meeting, the Russian diplomat said that the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, "instead of monitoring and recording all ceasefire violations, actually spied in Kiev’s interests."
The SMM also "shared feed from surveillance cameras with Ukrainians so they could do fire adjustment," he said.
Polyansky also noted episodes in which Ukrainian armed formations used OSCE armored vehicles.
"Such exposures undermine all trust in international organizations, where majority of officials come from Western states. Against this backdrop, calls to peace and ceasefire are perceived as two-tongued and disingenuous," the Russian deputy envoy continued.
"In practical terms, they only mean willingness to give a short break to Ukrainian nationalists and radicals, carve some time for them to re-group, receive new shipments of drones, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), and in the meantime carry out more infernal provocations, launch more fakes about the actions of Russian soldiers," he added.
