Madam Chair, together with our international partners, we continue to support Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s aggression. Through coordinated efforts to provide essential equipment and training, we reaffirm our shared commitment to peace, sovereignty, and international law. The brutality of this illegal invasion demands a united and principled response.

At last week’s FSC, Russia claimed that it ‘never targets civilians’ in Ukraine. This is starkly contradicted by a growing body of evidence from international investigations and human rights organisations. In October, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine concluded that Russian drone strikes across a 300 km stretch of southern Ukraine constitute crimes against humanity, specifically murder and forcible t

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