A group of Ukrainian activists has disrupted a high-level meeting of Russian officials at the UN climate summit in Egypt.
It’s the first time Russia was speaking publicly at COP27.
Russian Deputy Environment Minister Sergei Anopriyenko had just started talking when a young woman stood up shouting: “You are killing my people. You are shooting bombs at our people.”
Then another held a banner bearing the slogan Fossil Fuels Kill.
Seconds later, Viktoriya Ball stood up and shouted “you are war criminals” before walking out.
She told me outside the plenary room that Russia should not be at COP27.
“This conference is about making a better place for people and planet. But Russia is committing genocide, ecocide, they are destroying Ukraine, and fossil fuels are paying for war in my country,” she said.
Alyona Lovita, who came to Sharm el-Sheikh from Lviv, Ukraine, said she protested for her relatives living under bombardment.
After protesters were escorted out by UN security, Russian officials continued their event, telling the meeting that “we cannot stop climate change”.
Source: BBC.com