'Mama, this is so hard:' Ukraine UN envoy reads out what he claims are the final text messages sent by a slain Russian soldier

The ambassador to the United Nations from Ukraine read out text messages he claimed were from a slain Russian soldier and his mother.

While speaking to the UN General Assembly, Sergiy Kyslytsya presented a picture of the messages found on the phone of the dead soldier.

The mother asked her son if he was really in training exercises, and Kyslytsya read out the exchange in Russian.

I am no longer in the peninsula. The soldier replied that he was not in training sessions.

The mother asked if she could send a parcel to her son, but he said she couldn't.

I'm in Ukraine. There is a war going on. The Russian soldier wrote that he was afraid, per Kyslytsya's speech. We were told that they would welcome us, and they are falling under our armored vehicles, not allowing us to pass.

They call us fascists. The soldier wrote a letter to his mother.

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The assembly was asked to visualize the magnitude of the crisis.

The Ukrainian ambassador to the UN condemned Putin for suggesting that the use of nuclear weapons should be on the table.

If he wants to kill himself, he doesn't need a nuclear arsenal. Kyslytsya compared Putin to Hitler, the German dictator and Nazi Party leader who committed suicide in a Berlin Bunker towards the end of World War II.

Kyslytsya excoriating Putin for Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been delivered in the UN. The ambassador told the Russian ambassador to the UN that there was no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell.

Insider is covering developments as they happen.