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SKDKnickerbocker has signed on to provide speech writing support to Ukraine's Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
Working on a pro-bono basis, the Stagwell unit advised the Mission ahead of ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya's appearance before an emergency session of the Security Council during the evening of Feb. 23.
He urged the Russian ambassador to call foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and president Vladimir Putin and urge them to call off the invasion of his country.
He concluded by saying, "There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador."
Stephen Krupin, SKDK's managing director and head of executive communications, handles the Ukraine account.
He was senior presidential speechwriter for Barack Obama and earlier was chief speechwriter for secretary of state John Kerry and senate majority leader Harry Reid.
SKDK does not have a formal contract with Ukraine.
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Mar. 4, 2022, by Joe Honick
The fact that SKDK's retention for such a purpose is publicized is not productive. Speeches at the UN at this time and under these circumstances may well be dramatic and good for media but not expected to mountains where stratetgic and tactical efforts are hardly firm. If words in the UN are to count for anything, they would have to come from a very courageous man of the moment, Ukraine President Zelensky whose gut tells him he must risk standing his ground ON his ground lest running from his people's presence deflates any power he has left. What is murkiest in all this murk is the worrisome puzzle that Putin hardly laid a stone of foundation for his madness that might have at least diminished the level of worldwide antipathy for this crisis.