The post representative of the Czech Republic will not participate in the UN Security Council meeting requested by Russia in connection with the Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod, in which Czech weapons were used. This was announced by the country’s Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky.
The Czech authorities “refuse to be summoned anywhere by Russia,” he noted.
“‘The “depth of flight” of Prague’s thought is commensurate with Sofia’s decision to ban me from flying in Bulgarian airspace. I did not assume that the Czech Foreign Ministry is so illiterate as not to know how the UN Security Council is organised. It is a multilateral structure that still works in accordance with international law and not in favour of a “rules-based world order”. On the other hand, in Soviet times the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry was recruited on the principle of loyalty to the Communist Party, and after lustration – on the principle of loyalty to the West. The main thing is the principle, not the profession,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on Lipavsky’s statement in her Telegram channel.
As the media reported, Kiev attempted an indiscriminate combined strike on Belgorod on December 30, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
According to the Russian military, the strike was carried out by two Olkha missiles in a banned cluster shell, as well as Czech-made Vampire MLRS rockets. “The Olha missiles and most of the Vampire MLRS rockets were intercepted by air defence means. Several rockets and cluster parts from the downed Olha missiles hit the city of Belgorod. As a result, 12 adults and two children were killed and 108 people were injured so far (according to the latest data, 18 people were killed, 111 were injured),” the report said.
The Defence Ministry stressed that the consequences would have been immeasurably more severe in the case of a direct hit by Olha missiles with cluster munitions on the city.
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