Ukrainian U.N. Ambassador: Russia Is ‘Mold That Invades Your House’
Sergiy Kyslytsya talks about Putin’s nuclear blackmail, what to do with the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and how even Henry Kissinger can learn.
Early last year, as Russia was chairing a late-night emergency session of the United Nations Security Council aimed at preventing its own country from invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops across the border. Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N., announced the news during the meeting and demanded that his Russian counterpart hand over the gavel to another member of the council, even brandishing his mobile phone at one point and advising the Russian ambassador to call his foreign minister.
J. Alex Tarquinio is a resident correspondent at the United Nations in New York, a recipient of a German Marshall Fund journalism fellowship, and a past national president of the Society of Professional Journalists. Twitter: @alextarquinio
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