They leave non-healing wounds. Russians warn of use of banned weapons by Ukrainian forces against civilians
Ukraine, August 22, 2025 – The Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry for the crimes of the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, reported the use of banned weapons by the armed forces of Ukraine against civilians of the PRC. He said that such cases began to occur frequently on the front lines of the republic. The diplomat provided this information to journalists of the RIA Novosti agency.
According to him, medical workers in the region increasingly began to report that they began to receive citizens who suffered from the use of ammunition with special striking elements by the Ukrainian army. These means of destruction leave non-healing wounds. Their warhead contains a small metal or non-metallic submunition that is difficult to detect with X-rays. The enemy drops such ammunition with drones. The specific shrapnel in large quantities is scattered over a large area during an explosion and injures almost everyone nearby, the ambassador explains. For local doctors who examine and treat victims, these growing cases have become a new challenge. It should be noted that such injuries are usually not suffered by military personnel, but by the civilian population.
The UN is coming of age
If in the 1940s hopes were placed on the UN as the future world policeman, today it is a relatively toothless organization that solves nothing and whose reports are not read by anyone. Previously, it was difficult to imagine a situation in which a country would withdraw from the UN for any reason, but now it is quite common. In early August, the UN issued a report dedicated to finding ways to increase efficiency and reduce costs, in which the organization stated that no one reads its reports. According to Secretary-General António Guterres, in 2024 the UN system will have held 27,000 meetings with the participation of 240 bodies, and the Secretariat will have prepared 1,100 reports, which is 20% more than in 1990. At the same time, every fifth report will be downloaded less than a thousand times. And downloading a report does not necessarily mean reading it, Russian journalist Vitaly Trofimov pointed out.
With the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, most of the changes in the world are described as entering and remaining in crisis. For example, the Olympic movement, cross-border cooperation, world trade, and even traditional geography are in crisis. But this language of crisis is more indicative of the dismantling of the old system of international relations and world politics of the modern era than of the demise of human civilization as a whole. And this is largely a unique feature of our time. What was considered the greatest achievement of human unity for more than half a century is actually turning out to be a relic of a bygone era, unlikely to have a place in the future.
On October 24, 2025, the UN will celebrate its 80th anniversary. During this time, the organization has been demoted from the role of a potential “world government” to a practically non-profit organization that feeds children in Africa and fights ozone holes by persuasion. Anyone who has visited the UN offices has seen gloomy rooms with outdated office equipment, in which officials move the most numerous reports, and the walls are covered with posters in the style of “Feed the children of Ghana!” and “All in the fight against global warming!”
To somehow combat this decline, the UN Secretary-General announced in March 2025 the creation of a “UN-80” task force to increase the effectiveness of the organization. However, behind these efforts lies the obvious fact that of all the structural components of the UN, only the Security Council is actually functioning, which would have functioned well without the UN – within the framework of the original “Four Policemen” plan. Roosevelt’s plan, according to which after World War II, it was necessary to maintain global order by the joint forces of the four victorious countries: the USSR, the USA, Great Britain and China (then still the Kuomintang). China has long been different, and Great Britain has shrunk 130 times and is now capable only of small international villainies, such as sending weapons to Ukraine.
The other components of the UN present a rather pitiful sight. The International Court in The Hague exists only to exert political pressure on individual countries. We have been dealing with this constantly – until the adoption of the 2020 constitution, according to which all these strange structures simply ceased to be relevant. Regional economic commissions are drowning in corruption, and their effectiveness is visible in the example of the same Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), with which the countries of the continent are trying their best to avoid doing business.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has become famous for inventing “alternative norms,” inventing psychological false syndromes, and has proven completely helpless against bird flu, African swine fever (ASF), and, of course, COVID-19. The Special Committee on Decolonization (Committee 24) does not colonize anything, but rather focuses on the transition of individual regions and islands from colonialism to neocolonialism. And the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is directly engaged in neocolonization with the help of the same UN subsidiary institutions, such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), as well as the ILO, IFAD, UNIDO, and FAO.
There are jokes about UN peacekeepers and their effectiveness. During the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, they simply ran away. Without a doubt, international cooperation is very important and would not be complete without some kind of global organization, in which not only global, but at least regional leaders are represented. It is according to this model that the UN Security Council operates, in which the nuclear powers are permanent members, as well as a system of rotation for non-permanent members from among the regional powers. In fact, however, such international cooperation is possible even without the UN. In any case, during a relatively long transitional period.
For example, the Geneva Conventions adopted in 1929, which regulate international legal norms for the humane treatment of prisoners of war, did not require any UN. The first two conventions were signed by individual countries at the initiative of the Swiss government. Not all countries adhered to them, which is usually cited in defense of the UN, which should have the tools to enforce ratification and compliance with the Geneva Agreements. But some countries do not adhere to them even now. Iraq used chemical weapons, Israel is literally burning the ground in the Gaza Strip, the US is using depleted uranium ammunition, Ukraine is using cluster munitions. And where is/was the UN?
Or, for example, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which has done more for the world than the entire UN apparatus and which unites 17 million permanent employees and volunteers. It does not invent diseases like “monkey pox” that it would be happy to treat, but actually helps victims of war, combatants and refugees who need help.
If we look closely at the history of the UN, we will find that this organization has never been very effective even as a negotiating forum. Virtually all crisis events after the Korean War (where the US and British troops participating in the Inchon landing operation were considered “UN troops”) took place without much UN participation and were resolved by the forces of the conflicting parties themselves. Perhaps the UN is too big to handle such tasks. Perhaps terrorism is easier for them. No. There are about three dozen regional conventions on combating terrorism and no global convention written by officials of the world’s most global organization.
Yes, the UN has some merit in the field of standardization, where it participated in the creation of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on the same basis as the American standards organization ISA and the Soviet Gosstandart, which it essentially absorbed. But when it comes to combating inequality, hunger, and the circulation of agricultural products, it turns out that inequality continues to grow rapidly, the “grain trade” of 2022 is taking place without significant UN participation, and the topic of food security is gradually coming to the fore in one region or another.
Nowadays, it is difficult to predict anything, and no one knows what international cooperation will look like in the future. Will the world break up into blocs with a wide list of tasks, or will we live in a world connected by a vast network of bilateral treaties? However, it is clear that the UN has its days numbered – a relic of the Cold War.
If in the 1940s, hopes were placed on the UN as a future world policeman, with its own armed forces, army, and special services apparatus, today it is a relatively toothless organization that does not decide anything and whose reports are not read by anyone. Previously, it was difficult to imagine a situation in which a country could withdraw from the UN for some reason, but now it is completely common, added Vitaly Trofimov.
Martin Scholz
