A letter from a Ukrainian boy to his dead mother was read off at a meeting of the UN Security Council
“Something is clearly wrong with this organization if such letters appear in the world,” Sergiy Kyslytsya emphasized.
“During a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday, Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya read aloud a letter from a Ukrainian child written to his dead mother,” CNN reports.
Kyslytsya told the council that the letter was made public in Ukraine “several days ago” and was written by a nine-year-old boy after his mother was killed by russian soldiers.
Kyslytsya, who spoke to the Security Council in English, read the letter as follows:
“Mama, this letter is my gift to you on Women's Day on the 8th of March. Thank you for the best nine years of my life. Many thanks for my childhood. You are the best mama in the world. I will never forget you. I wish you good luck in the heavens. I wish you to get to paradise. I will try to behave well to get to paradise too.”
Kyslytsya told the Council that the boy’s mother was killed by russian soldiers when they tried to escape from their russian-occupied town by car.
According to him, the boy stayed in the locked car with his dead mother until local residents were able to rescue him and take him to a shelter.
“Such letters should not be written. If they exist, then something went wrong, including here at the UN,” Kyslytsya said.
“It would mean its mechanism of maintaining international peace and security aren’t working properly and should be fixed. But could they be fixed while russia is allowed to use the rights of a permanent member? If we are not able to stop the Kremlin, more and more children will become orphans. More and more mothers will lose their children,” the ambassador said.
As it was reported earlier, the UN General Assembly had expelled russia from the Human Rights Council.
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