© Reuters / Brendan McDermidRussia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin listens to U.S. President Barack Obama (not pictured) speak at the Security Council of the 69th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2014
Most of Arseny Yatsenyuk's speech, which came last at the first day of UNGA debates, was devoted to criticizing Russia.
Yatsenyuk has urged the General Assembly participants not to lift sanctions imposed on Russia until Kiev regains control over the whole of the Ukrainian territory.
He said that the Russian president has a goal of restoring the Soviet Union and also addressed Vladimir Putin directly.
"Mr. Putin, you can win a battle against the troops, but you will never defeat the people - united Ukrainian nation," the PM said.
Churkin was puzzled by that.
"It's strange that his speech ended up in a melodramatic call to the Russian president," he said.
"Yatsenyuk has likely forgotten that the president of Ukraine is Petro Poroshenko, who has long been in an intensive dialogue with President Putin," Churkin said. "The dialogue has made possible the recent agreements which as we hope are opening the gate to settling the prolonged crisis in Ukraine."
Russian and Ukrainian presidents talked to each other on the phone a number of times over the last two months. In early September, Kiev and self-defense forces brokered a ceasefire, following which extensive fighting stopped and the sides began exchanging prisoners.
"It's strange that Ukraine's PM, instead of solving the multiple problems of his country, which is nearing economic collapse, has come to New York to speak in front of a half-empty General Assembly room," Churkin told journalists.
If any westerners can recall the "Bag (of cookies) Lady" Victoria Nuland, wife of Neo-Con frontman Robert Kagan, big cheeze in the "Project for the New American Century" , (a diabolical takeover of the world which results in everyone having a portrait of the "American Dream", a 1959 Cadillac.)
I say "if" because most westerners have a five second attention span, after which they return to studying photos of their favourite heroes buttocks in fan magazines, or watching a program which shows some overpaid athletes throwing, kicking or batting a ball around...their actual religion. Then, guzzling excessive amounts of their sacrament...alcohol which kills off a few more of their remaining brain cells but blunts the horror of their unfulfilling lives.
But in any case, Ms. Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, because of his weird accent and the failure of her hearing aid resulted in the battle cry, "We want Yats!" . Actually the whole Ukrainian cabinet had said, "We want YACHTS" !
After all, what self respecting former potato soup slurping commissar would want a scrawny twit like Arseniy Yatsenyuk for a Prime Minister?
The Ukrainian people deserve a fat slob like Winston Churchill at least. I mean, it's the Twenty First Century for God's sake!