At a session of the Security Council, Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Andriy Melnyk said what many in that hall think but no one says out loud: if Russia is so bothered by the decisions of the United Nations - the door is right there.

„Allow me to make a proposal. If Russia feels so uncomfortable over the General Assembly resolutions demanding the unconditional withdrawal of its troops, more precisely its war criminals, from Ukrainian territory, if Russia rejects the independent UN reports that expose its barbaric policy - then perhaps it's time to say goodbye and leave the United Nations," Melnyk said.

The demand didn't stop at rhetoric. Melnyk called for Russian forces to be removed from all UN peacekeeping and policing missions, recalling that Russia has appeared three times in a row in the reports on children and armed conflict, as well as on the lists of parties involved in sexual violence in conflict. A country on those lists patrolling as a „peacekeeper" - that's an irony even the UN bureaucracy struggles to swallow.

„I don't think anyone in this hall will shed a tear if Russia slams the door and walks out. Every day the Russian representative spits in our face with constant lies," added the Ukrainian diplomat, who also called for support for Ukraine's air defense to be increased „at least tenfold, and even better - twentyfold."

Realistically, Russia won't leave the UN - a seat with veto power on the Security Council is too valuable to give up out of spite. And that's exactly Melnyk's point: the proposal isn't a plan, it's a mirror. A system in which a country under sanctions and with lists full of accusations sits at the table that decides on peace - that's a system that mocks itself. And we in the Balkans know well what it looks like when the powerful interpret the rules to their own measure.