Timothy Snyder at UN about Russian genocidal policies in Ukraine.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/playing-the-victim
https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15226.doc.htm

...the term "russophobia," which we are discussing today, has been exploited during this war as a form of imperial propaganda in which the aggressor claims to be the victim. It has served this last year as a justification for Russian war crimes in Ukraine.