A Latvian MP was so furious that a Moscow delegation had been invited to attend a UN security meeting that he launched into a very passion speech 😳
Rihards Kols said it was ‘a disgrace’ that Vladimir Putin’s delegates were allowed to attend the gathering in Vienna, and said he could not sit in the same room as Russian lawmakers as if ‘nothing happened’ when thousands of Ukrainians had been killed when Putin invaded a year ago.
He said if he was a witness and ‘someone asked me who is the war criminal, I would point to the back benches in this room.’ The phrase has been adopted as an international slogan of resistance against Russian aggression, and was commemorated on a postage stamp in Ukraine just weeks after its first utterance.as diplomats from the two countries faced off on the anniversary of their war at a session of the Security Council..
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