Zelenskyy Speaks Out After Leaked UN Email Instructs Staff Not To Say 'War'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a leaked U.N. email instructing staff not to characterize Russia’s attack on Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion,” but instead as a “conflict” or “military offensive.”

“I know this outraged many, and not only in Ukraine,” Zelensky said on a video posted on Telegram on Tuesday, according to CNN.

The U.N. email, with the subject line “Ukraine crisis communication guidelines,” was intended for internal use by staff. It also reminded workers to be careful about personal use of social media.

“We, as international civil servants, have a responsibility to be impartial,” the email read.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelenskyy-speaks-leaked-un-email-121246984.html

[lame54]

1. Bond villians don't deserve impartiality

[Achilleaze]

2. .

[lagomorph777]

3. The original story isn't true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/un-ban-word-war-russia-ukraine/

Claim
In early March 2022, the United Nations banned its staff from using the word “war” in reference to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

What's True
The U.N. Regional Information Centre for Western Europe at the Department of Global Communications issued guidance via email on March 7, 2022, to avoid using the word "war" until the U.N. had an official policy. However…

What's False
The U.N. as an entity did not ban the word “war.” The Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General at the United Nations in New York told Snopes that no such email had been sent to staff from U.N. headquarters, and provided multiple examples of senior U.N. officials using the word "war" in reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[Irish_Dem]

4. How can any moral person be impartial when watching genocide?

[cilla4progress]

5. Glad he's calling them out.

Is the Z on Russian armaments for Zelensky? As in, he is a marked man?

[Deuxcents]

8. Imo..yes. It would not surprise me if there was a bounty on him

And his family.

[malthaussen]

6. Back in the '30s, Milton Caniff had to write "aggressors"...

... in "Terry and the Pirates" to identify the Japanese invaders of China, because the syndicate did not want to offend the Japanese government, who of course denied that the "China Incident" was an invasion.

-- Mal

[Hortensis]

7. "Impartial?" Outrageous!