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"I've never been so ashamed": Top Russian diplomat resigns with blunt justification

2022-05-24T07:59:38.097Z


"I've never been so ashamed": Top Russian diplomat resigns with blunt justification Created: 05/24/2022, 09:48 am By: Max Mueller Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (archive image) © Mikhail Metzel/TASS/Imago A senior Russian ambassador has resigned. In a letter, Boris Bondarev settles accounts with his country's politics - and condemns the war in Ukrai


"I've never been so ashamed": Top Russian diplomat resigns with blunt justification

Created: 05/24/2022, 09:48 am

By: Max Mueller

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (archive image) © Mikhail Metzel/TASS/Imago

A senior Russian ambassador has resigned.

In a letter, Boris Bondarev settles accounts with his country's politics - and condemns the war in Ukraine.

GENEVA - The Russian ambassador to the UN headquarters in Geneva has resigned from his post.

The reason: he is ashamed.

Boris Bondarev explains his motives in an open letter. Bondarev condemns the invasion of Ukraine.

He calls it "perhaps the most serious crime against the Russian people, which thwarts all hopes and prospects for a prosperous, free society in our country".

Russia in the Ukraine war: "Sacrifice as many lives as necessary"

The text was spread via Twitter by Hillel Neuer, a lawyer and human rights activist, among others.

The Internet portal “UN Watch” was the first to report.

Bondarev has worked in the Russian Foreign Ministry since 2002, first in Moscow and later in Geneva.

Bondarev's reckoning is relentless.

“Those who caused this war want only one thing – to remain in power forever, to live in pompous, tasteless palaces, to sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian Navy, to enjoy unlimited power and complete impunity ' said Bondarev.

“To achieve that, they are willing to sacrifice as many lives as necessary.

Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have already died for this alone.”

Sergey Lavrov: "A good example of a broken system"

He explicitly turns to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is at the center of his criticism.

He is a good example of a broken system, although Lavrov was once considered a highly esteemed intellectual.

Bondarev holds Lavrov responsible for Russia's recent decisions and condemns him for "threatening the world (and consequently Russia) with nuclear weapons".

Bondarev left President Vladimir Putin out of his analysis.

The Russian Foreign Ministry, which Lavrov heads, is no longer on a diplomatic mission.

Bondarev himself shaped the ministry for two decades.

"It's all about warmongering, lies and hatred," he writes.

“It serves the interests of a few, very few people, and thus contributes to the further isolation and degradation of my country.

Russia has no more allies and no one is to blame for this except its reckless and ill-conceived policies.”

War in Ukraine: Boris Bondarev castigates Russian politics - lies and unprofessionalism

It came as no surprise that Moscow itself declared foreign diplomats undesirable in the past.

The step taken by Bondarev, who positions himself against his own politics in the course of the Ukraine conflict, is all the more astonishing.

Apparently the inner suffering became too great.

He could "simply no longer participate in this bloody, pointless and absolutely unnecessary disgrace".

He regrets having to admit that the level of lies and unprofessionalism has gotten worse and worse over the past 20 years: "In recent years it has simply been catastrophic." The Kremlin propaganda is on the level of the "Soviet newspapers of the 30th Years".

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Other Russian diplomats should follow Bondarev's behavior as a model, demanded Wolfgang Ischinger, former chairman of the Munich Security Conference, in a Twitter post.

He hopes that Bondarew will now be invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

(Max Mueller)

Source: merkur

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