Russia defends itself to the UN by stating that it is not helping migrants to flock to the Belarusian border with Poland.
The Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy said: "No, absolutely not", he said about possible aid to migrants on the sidelines of the closed-door emergency meeting of the Security Council convened at the request of Estonia, France and Ireland.
And on the movements of fighters in the Belarusian skies, Polyanskiy explained that it was a "response to the massive deployment" of Polish armed guards on the border.
"We have obligations in the context of unity between Russia and Belarus," he explained. "If there is a concentration of military resources on the border with Belarus, we must react. They are only reconnaissance flights, nothing more, it is a normal activity", he assured. The diplomat then observed that the migrants "are people who have legally arrived in Belarus and are trying to enter European countries, particularly Germany". "They are not allowed to cross the border, they are prosecuted, beaten. It is a total shame and a complete violation of international conventions".
Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy has rejected (American) suspicions that Moscow is amassing troops on the border with Ukraine to invade it: "this was never planned," he said, however claiming "the right to concentrate troops. where we want, it is not in Ukrainian but Russian territory ".
The diplomat also urged "not to forget that American warships in the Black Sea act in a provocative way", admonishing that "it is more and more difficult every day to avoid a direct confrontation in the Black Sea".