Boris Bondarev

Boris Bondarev was Counsellor of the Russian Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. He resigned in protest to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on May 23 2022.

Why I quit as a Russian diplomat to the United Nations

My name is Boris Bondarev, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia since 2002, since 2019 until now — Counsellor of the Russian Mission to the UN Office at Geneva.  For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed