🎙 Statement by Russian MFA Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik during the dialogue with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk at a plenary meeting of the Third Committee of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, October 14, 2026)

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💬 We expect an impartial and well-grounded assessment of events from the High Commissioner for Human Rights, but we are not getting one.

The methodology used by OHCHR to collect and verify data, particularly on Ukraine, raises very serious questions.

In practice, OHCHR leaves data verification to third parties. Questionable conclusions are then drawn from distorted information – but issued in the name of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

You blatantly ignore civilian casualties on the Russian Side, claiming that 95% of civilian casualties occur in territory controlled by Kiev. At the same time, you attribute nine out of ten crimes involving sexual violence to Russia, without the slightest basis.

👉 How can there be any talk of objectivity in these circumstances?

There is little point in analysing the reports of the so-called UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Every quarter, it presents the world with increasingly absurd conclusions based on unreliable data.

But what can you expect from a body established under a bilateral agreement between Kiev and OHCHR back in 2014, funded by generous contributions from Western donors and receiving information exclusively from Kiev?! Does anyone believe it is impartial?

❗️ Meanwhile, attacks by Ukrainian militants since 2022 alone have resulted in more than 36,400 civilian casualties, including 9,141 deaths – and we are ready to substantiate these figures.

Mr High Commissioner, do you not think there is now an urgent need for an open discussion at the intergovernmental level of the methodology used by the UN, and OHCHR in particular, to collect and verify data?

☝️ I hope such a step could at least partly restore States’ trust in you, High Commissioner, and in the Office you head.

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