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2022-03-31 21:59:57+00:00
📑Ministry of Defence of Russia within project "Archives remember everything!" publishes new historical evidence of crimes and atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists against their people during the Great Patriotic War
▫️During the Great Patriotic War, the so-called "independent" Ukrainian statehood began to be created on the territories of the Ukrainian SSR captured by the Germans, which was accompanied by numerous crimes against the peoples inhabiting Ukraine, their genocide.
▫️Even the Nazi occupiers were surprised by the degree of cruelty and atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists towards Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews.
▫️When the territory of the Ukrainian SSR was liberated by the Red Army, investigations were initiated that revealed numerous facts of humiliation, looting and mass murder, which were committed by Ukrainian nationalists against civilians, including representatives of their own people…
🗂Documents
#MoD #archive
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2022-03-31 18:34:56+00:00
That #OOPS moment when the truth comes out... even on the MSM. On air.
The unexpected reveal of "innocent patients" with assault rifles showcased how the Ukrainian military uses ambulances. That same modus operandi involves exploiting civilians and using them as human shields.
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2022-03-31 18:17:12+00:00
Article by the Ambassador of Russia to Ireland H.E. Yuriy Filatov "The Hard Facts about Ukraine and Donbass".
🗓 It is now more than a month since Russia has started special military operation in Ukraine aimed at the defense of Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. It has been dramatic and traumatic period for many Ukrainians. The sad truth is that the suffering of the predominantly Russian people of the South-East of Ukraine started much earlier – eight years ago, in 2014.
Perhaps this article will give our Irish readers a reason to give a chance to an idea that people of Donbass also deserve better and peaceful life now and in the future, while racism, neo-Nazism and hatred should be resolutely rejected.
👉https://telegra.ph/The-Hard-Facts-about-Ukraine-and-Donbass-03-31
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2022-03-31 17:20:01+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov at a meeting with Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi:
💬 We are convinced that the international community must actively cooperate with your Government, encouraging you to take the necessary steps for the official recognition by the United Nations and all its members.
🔹 And the key is to ensure the inclusivity of your Government, of your Government structures, not only from the ethnic-confessional point of view but also from the point of view of involving other political forces in the Government.
🔹 And, of course, humanitarian assistance is the priority at this stage, and the international community must actively participate in those efforts.
🔹 All neighbours of Afghanistan are ready to contribute to the efforts for the rehabilitation of economy of the country. But we all believe that the key burden, financial burden to finance these endeavours must be borne by the United States and its allies
❗️ They were present in Afghanistan for 20 years and did not leave behind any industrial or any other useful enterprise. Instead, they just arrested your money.
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2022-03-31 16:42:54+00:00
📅 #OnThisDay 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ years ago the legendary Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was born - one of the most renowned and well-respected women of the XXth century.
👩💼 In the wake of the October 1917 Revolution in Russia, she was appointed in November of the same year People's Commissar for Welfare of the RSFSR, becoming the first female minister in the history of humankind.
💼 Even more outstandingly, Alexandra Kollontai went down in history as the first Russian/Soviet female ambassador. In fact, it was only decades later that in Europe women started serving in this position.
✍️ This strong, bright, and extremely talented woman devoted almost 35 years of her life to diplomatic service. Having retired, she spent the remainder of her life writing memoirs. Her diaries and memoirs are valuable historical sources. Kollontai passed away on March 9, 1952, and was laid to rest at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery.
Learn more
#RussianDiplomats #GreatWomen
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2022-03-31 15:59:56+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: A new reality is taking shape: the unipolar world is irretrievably receding into the past and a multi-polar world is being born. This is an objective process that cannot be stopped.
There won’t be one single ruler in this new reality. All key states with a decisive influence on the world economy and politics will have to come to terms.
Being aware of their special status, they will ensure the observance of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the main one – the sovereign equality of states.
❗️ Nobody on Earth will be considered a second-rate player. All nations are equal and sovereign.
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2022-03-31 15:59:52+00:00
⚡️ Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in response to EU sanctions
❗️ In response to the unilateral sanctions of the European Union, the Russian side, acting on the basis of reciprocity, which is fundamental for international law, is expanding significantly the list of representatives of EU Member States and institutions who will be denied entry to the Russian Federation in accordance with Federal Law No.114-FZ on the Procedure of Exiting and Entering the Russian Federation of 15 August 1996.
The restrictions apply to the top leadership of the EU, a number of European commissioners and heads of EU military bodies, as well as the overwhelming majority of members of the European Parliament that have advanced anti-Russian policies.
❗️ We reaffirm that any further unfriendly action by the EU and its Member States will inevitably be met with a forceful response.
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2022-03-31 15:53:04+00:00
🇷🇺🇲🇿 Today marks 4️⃣5️⃣ years since the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between our country and #Mozambique!
The bonds of friendship and cooperation that formed during the struggle of the Mozambican people for independence keep strengthening today.
👉 Learn more
#RussiaAfrica
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2022-03-31 15:17:48+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in #NewDelhi with an official visit. Tomorrow he will hold talks with India's Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Sergey Lavrov will also be received by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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2022-03-31 13:30:34+00:00
❗️🇧🇷 Statement of the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the case of persecution of a journalist from Brazil by Ukrainian authorities
On March 29, Brazilian journalist André Liohn was forced to leave Ukraine due to persecution, pressure and death threats from the Ukrainian authorities. Apparently, this is the way Kiev decided to implement a law recently signed by the Ukrainian president, which introduces criminal liability for disclosing information about the weapons and troops transfer. At first glance, such an act could have a certain expediency during a martial law. However, if we carefully study its provisions, as well as the first consequences of process of law, an obvious conclusion offers itself: all those who dare to tell information objectionable to the Ukrainian authorities will be equated with criminals for Kiev.
On the example of a journalist from Brazil, we see Kiev's progressive panic fear of the truth, which inevitably leaks out through the screen of Ukrainian propaganda fables. Contrary not only to principles of freedom of speech and humanism, but also to a number of acts of international humanitarian law (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, etc.), the Ukrainian authorities are doing everything to make the distinctive “press” sign not be perceived as protection during the armed conflict, but, on the contrary, as a reason to become the number one target in annihilation of all those people who are trying to talk about events in Ukraine from the standpoint of objectivity, humanity and common sense.
Correspondents working in Donbass know this firsthand. Over the 8 years of conflict, many of them were under direct fire from the armed forces of Ukraine, and some, unfortunately, could not return from their editorial assignment. At the cost of own lives, they launched process of insight into the world community, this process is already irreversible. However now for every media representative who has a conscience and professional honor it is critically important to do everything possible to increase the speed of such insight, on which the fate of millions of people depends.
In this regard, we highly recommend, first of all, the Western audience of the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs to read an interview of André Liohn to the UOL agency. Particularly important is the part in which Mr. Liohn openly admits that it is the Ukrainian authorities that are likely responsible for the deaths of journalists on Ukrainian territory, and not the Russian military, as they say in Ukraine.
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2022-03-31 13:08:08+00:00
🇷🇺🇳🇴📞 Russia's President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Store.
Vladimir Putin explained in detail the reasons for launching the special military operation to protect Donbass, its goals and objectives. He placed particular emphasis on humanitarian issues, primarily the measures taken to ensure the safety of the civilian population and opening humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the areas of hostilities, including Mariupol.
The President of Russia also informed Jonas Gahr Store about the talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. The latest round took place recently in Istanbul.
#RussiaNorway
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2022-03-31 12:28:25+00:00
🚛 Russian servicemen delivered yet another batch of humanitarian aid: the residents of Veliky Burluk and Olkhovatka in the Kharkov region received the much neededessentials, food packages, baby food and medicine.
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2022-03-31 11:24:17+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s address at the plenary session of a Meeting between Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries (Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
🔹The new administration of Afghanistan has managed to keep the state afloat. Certain positive results have been scored in the field of counterterrorism operations.
🔹 In our opinion, the new Kabul government does not fully represent all sections of Afghan society, and we see this as the main obstacle for its official recognition.
🔹 The UN should lead the way in officially recognising the Taliban movement.
🔹 The “collective West” bears direct responsibility for the current humanitarian situation and the deplorable state of the Afghan economy. Therefore, it must assume most of the financial burden for overcoming the crisis and bringing the situation back to normal.
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2022-03-31 11:18:37+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions by the Xinhua news agency, Tunxi, March 31, 2022
❓ Question: What are the main results of the Meeting of Afghanistan’s Neighbouring Countries?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The main results have been enshrined in the Joint Statement of the Tunxi Initiative, a statement that reflects the shared views of the participants in the meeting. The focus is on helping the Afghan nation, which is suffering from the legacy left by almost 20 years of NATO presence. The NATO force has left the country in a very bad state.
The international community’s priority is to help Afghanistan solve its humanitarian problems. The next step is to assist the country in reviving its economy. The main message to the international community is that it must be much more proactive. The roadmap for the world with regard to Afghanistan is being formulated by that country’s neighbours. This China-sponsored meeting has been particularly important.
❓Question: What are the reasons behind the current crisis in Ukraine?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The main reason behind the Ukraine crisis is the policy that the US-led NATO has been conducting for several decades. After the breakup of the USSR, they continued expanding their military infrastructure further east. They have been flooding Ukraine with weapons and creating a military infrastructure there. This threatened Russia’s security and was a gross violation of the decisions not to strengthen one’s security at the expense of the security of others, which were approved by the OSCE and within the framework of Russia-NATO relations.
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2022-03-31 08:59:57+00:00
◼️ The #BattleOfRzhev, one of the bloodiest and longest encounters of the Great Patriotic War, ended on March 31, 1943.
▪️ The fighting around the Rzhev-Vyazma Salient continued from January 8, 1942, until March 31, 1943, with the Soviet troops of the Western and Kalinin fronts carrying out four separate offensives to destroy Germany’s Army Group Centre, as well as liberate Rzhev, Sychyovka and Vyazma and eliminate the Rzhev-Vyazma Salient so German troops could not use it as a bridgehead.
⚔️ Having liberated Rzhev on March 3, 1943, Soviet troops pursued the enemy from March 2 through 31, moving the front line another 130 to 160 km from Moscow, and permanently eliminating the threat to the capital.
🕯 According to official statistics, the Soviets lost half a million people near Rzhev, including some 400,000 killed, dying from wounds, missing or taken prisoner.
🔗https://is.gd/HbsScK
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2022-03-31 07:03:55+00:00
📺 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov greets the delegation of Afghanistan helmed by Acting FM Amir Khan Muttaqi ahead of the meeting «on the sidelines» of the Third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan's Neighbouring Countries in Tunxi, China.
#RussiaAfghanistan #Handshake
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2022-03-31 05:10:26+00:00
FM Sergey Lavrov meets with Acting FM of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi «on the sidelines» of the Third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan's Neighbouring Countries in Tunxi, China.
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2022-03-31 03:01:44+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov to pay an official visit to the Republic of India on March 31 - April 1
#RussiaIndia
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2022-03-31 01:29:51+00:00
🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the Third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan's Neighbouring Countries 🇦🇫
📍 Tunxi, China
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2022-03-30 20:44:01+00:00
🇷🇺🇩🇪📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Scholz.
Vladimir Putin informed the Federal Chancellor about the substance of the decision to switch to Russian rubles in gas transactions, for Germany in particular. The change in transaction currency is being introduced due to the fact that, in violation of international law, the foreign exchange reserves of the Bank of Russia were frozen by the EU member states. It was noted that the decision should not lead to a deterioration of contractual obligations for the European companies importing Russian gas. It was agreed that the experts of the two countries would discuss this issue further.
Vladimir Putin and Olaf Scholz exchanged views on the latest round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives in Istanbul held the day before. Ensuring the safe evacuation of civilians from combat zones, primarily from Mariupol, was also considered.
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2022-03-30 20:12:50+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova gives an update on the current situation in Ukraine.
🔸 The Russian armed forces’ special military operation is being carried out in Ukraine.
🔸 The Russian military is doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. They do not attack civilian targets, and they open humanitarian corridors daily to help evacuate civilians from harm’s way.
🔸 The Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ treatment of civilians remains terrifying. People are taken hostage, used as a human shield, and are not allowed to leave combat zones...
and more.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 29.03.22)
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2022-03-30 17:11:58+00:00
🎙 Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov's interview with RT
Watch in full
💬 Ryabkov: BRICS nations will be one of the backbones of the new "fair world order"
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2022-03-30 16:59:57+00:00
📅 #OTD in 1613, Kostroma peasant Ivan #Susanin died at the hands of the Polish-Lithuanian invaders, refusing to betray his people and nation.
His feat went down in Russia's history as an ideal of selfless service to the Fatherland.
👉 Learn more
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2022-03-30 15:39:47+00:00
⭐️ #OTD in 1901, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Alexey #Fyodorov was born.
In 1941-1944, he commanded Soviet partisans fighting against Nazis & Ukrainian nationalists from various OUN factions in the occupied Ukrainian SSR.
#WeRemember the true hero of Ukraine☝️
#FacesOfVictory
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2022-03-30 15:07:34+00:00
Residents of #Mariupol - those who managed to escape the clutches of the Neo-Nazis - tell the TRUTH about the way they were treated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and about the atrocities of the infamous Neo-Nazi "Azov" Battalion, who shelled and punished civilians. And in contrast, how the Russian military assisted.
The Truth that the mainstream media will never show or tell.
#See4Yourself
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2022-03-30 14:34:53+00:00
💬 FM Sergey Lavrov: What matters the most right now is to stop indulging the Ukrainians who want to use talks and solutions as a smokescreen. They have succeeded in this posture when they derailed the Minsk Agreements immediately after signing them in February 2015. In the end, they said that they refused to fulfil them. We know how good they are at pretending to be involved.
This time, they will not get away with it. We need to make sure that the talks yield results, and once they do, the Presidents will formalise them.
(Excerpt from the Minister's interview with the Serbian media, Moscow, March 28, 2022)
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2022-03-30 14:17:34+00:00
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 There is another way the Americans are trying to exploit the ongoing crisis in Europe incited by the West and Ukraine (beyond the evident).
For decades, European communities and later the EU have been purely economic unions. They have coordinated their general political dossiers (including their common foreign policy), but Brussels has never put military issues and national defence up for discussion.
At the latest EU summit in Brussels, US President Joe Biden openly urged NATO and the EU to agree on a deeper partnership. Of course, the idea was presented as necessary for defence purposes: united Europe needs protection. Who can provide it but NATO? The Alliance will provide troops and may conduct a cyberoperation, if need be. NATO will shield Europe, the message was.
However, the Washington strategists have a different plan in mind. Since the United States has dominated NATO since its founding, they want to keep an eye on everything that happens under the EU umbrella. Washington does not want a developed, strong, united and independent Europe, as indicated by the fact that the United States supported Brexit, and by the very nature of the anti-Russian sanctions that are mainly hitting Europe.
👉 Washington wants the EU integration project to become NATO’s makeweight, a “regional economic department,” and rule the entire Western world from Capitol Hill in this new configuration.
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2022-03-30 13:33:28+00:00
A favorite tactic among terrorists and Ukrainian nationalists alike - using civilians and civilian infrastructure (residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches, shopping malls, etc) as “human shields”.
The video 👆 shows a few examples of how Ukrainian nationalists recklessly endanger the lives of 🇺🇦 civilians.
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2022-03-30 11:48:20+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi
📍 Tunxi, March 30, 2022
💬 We are delighted to revisit China. This is our second meeting in 2022, and it underscores the intensity and trustful nature of our regular bilateral dialogue.
❗️ We are living through a serious stage in the history of international relations. I am convinced that the outcome of this stage will substantially clarify the international situation. We will move towards a multipolar, equitable and democratic world order with you and other like-minded nations.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 We are interested in ensuring the sustainable and consistent development of our relations with the People’s Republic of China, as agreed by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping.
Today, we will review specific steps to ensure that all these agreements are implemented.
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2022-03-30 11:46:48+00:00
⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Netherlands
🇷🇺🇳🇱 On March 29, the Netherlands declared 17 diplomats from the Russian Embassy in The Hague personae non grata.
This unfriendly measure shows that The Hague in not interested in the least in maintaining normal diplomatic communication channels with Russia. It is consistent with the destructive policy of the Dutch authorities, who over many years, against common sense, have systematically been destroying bilateral relations with Russia, having severed political contacts and acting as an initiator of the unprecedented sanctions pressure on our country.
This time the Dutch have outdone themselves in their effort to hit the Russian Embassy harder. The responsibility for the implications of this arbitrary behaviour lies in full with the Dutch authorities.
Retaliatory measures will be announced.
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2022-03-30 10:05:25+00:00
💬 FM Sergey Lavrov during talks with FM of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Tunxi, China: Those who tried to make Afghanistan centre of the world politics, now try to make #Ukraine to replace #Afghanistan. And we all understand what it is about.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1807164
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2022-03-30 09:49:28+00:00
🇷🇺🇵🇰 Foreign Ministers Sergey #Lavrov and Shah Mahmood #Qureshi meet in Tunxi, China.
#RussiaPakistan 🤝
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2022-03-30 09:00:53+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister of Indonesia Retno Marsudi in Tunxi, China
#RussiaIndonesia
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2022-03-30 08:26:25+00:00
Kiev regime uses places of worship and any other places of public worship as collection and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to take part in hostilities.
▫️We show evidence received from a member of the Uman Jewish community of the use by the Zelensky regime for this purpose of the building of the new city synagogue, located at Shosseiny Lane 1.
📸Photographs taken on March 21, the day after Zelensky's speech to the Knesset, show the formation of two columns of nationalists on the synagogue grounds.
❗️The property, weapons and ammunition stored in the synagogue building were first loaded by the nationalists into the backs of dump trucks and then disguised as bags of building rubbish. At the same time, buses painted as school vehicles with appropriate "Children" signs are being used to transport nationalists and foreign mercenaries from western regions of Ukraine.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
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2022-03-30 07:49:38+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a bilateral meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov.
📸 Maria Zakharova
#RussiaUzbekistan
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2022-03-30 06:01:35+00:00
💬 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine:
❗️This list of problems caused by Kiev is expanding. There is an increased danger of floating Ukrainian mines at sea. Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey have already faced or are about to face this perilous problem. In this context, let me underscore that Russian armed forces pose no threat to freedom of civil navigation.
👉 Washington and its allies have a choice now. They can choose to stop fueling Ukrainian crisis, delivering weapons to the Kiev regime, and provoking a global food crisis and hunger in a number of states.
Read in full
💬 Right of reply by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy to the representative of the United States:
❓You surely know who Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are. They collaborated with Nazis, took part in killings of Jews, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians. If you doubt it, ask the Poles.
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2022-03-30 05:05:15+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi meet in Tunxi, China
#RussiaChina 🤝
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2022-03-30 01:11:36+00:00
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov arrives in Tunxi, China.
#RussiaChina
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2022-03-30 01:06:48+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question about a video depicting how the Ukrainian military is humiliating Russian POWs
❓There are video clips on the internet showing how fighters from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) humiliate Russian POWs and they record their murder. What do the defenders of human rights in the Council of Europe and the OSCE ODIHR say about this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: They remain silent. They don’t react in any way to these war crimes and flagrant violations of international humanitarian law. Russophobia blinds them.
Nobody in Strasbourg has raised the issue of expelling Ukraine from the Council of Europe even though there are plenty reasons to do so. ODIHR Director Matteo Mecacci is focusing his anger on Russia alone. Moral and ethical principles and political integrity have been lost. What can we discuss with these institutions?
This silence means complicity in the committed atrocities. Complicity is also a crime.
Read in full
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2022-03-29 21:54:18+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov at a meeting with Lebanese Democratic Party Chairman Talal Arslan
💬 We invariably support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon, the need for resolving all problems on the basis of an emotional consensus that has taken shape and helped us overcome difficulties more than once. We are alarmed to watch attempts to undermine the tradition of preserving national consensus.
Unfortunately, those international players who have been traditionally trying to use the region for their selfish mercenary interests now strive to influence the situation more actively, while speculating on the consequences of the situation in Ukraine.
We value the principled position of our many friends in all countries that, first of all, refuse to join illegitimate and unilateral Western sanctions against the Russian Federation and, second, which comprehend current developments in the context of common trends in the future development of global relations.
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2022-03-29 20:29:13+00:00
🇷🇺🇫🇷 Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron held a telephone conversation.
The discussion of current developments in Ukraine continued, including in the context of another round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives that concluded today in Istanbul.
❗️ Special consideration was given to humanitarian issues. The President of Russia informed his counterpart about the measures taken by Russian military personnel to provide emergency humanitarian aid and ensure the safe evacuation of civilians, including from Mariupol. It was emphasised that in order to resolve the difficult humanitarian situation in that city, Ukrainian nationalist militants must stop resisting and lay down their weapons.
Issues related to the decision to switch to ruble payments for Russian natural gas deliveries, in particular to the EU countries, were also touched on.
It was agreed to maintain contact.
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2022-03-29 19:54:55+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry statement on continued cyberattack by the “collective West”
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💬 In the context of the special military operation launched to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, the United States and its satellites are waging a large-scale cyberattack against Russia.
Advanced information and communication technologies are being used almost every day to attack government agencies, media outlets, critical infrastructure and vital facilities.
☝️ In fact, this cyberwar is being waged by an army of cyber mercenaries who have been given concrete combat tasks that often border on terrorism.
❗️ Nobody must have any doubt that the cyber aggression being waged against Russia will have dramatic consequences for its inspirers and operators. The sources of these attacks will be identified, and the culprits will inevitably be called to account for their activities in accordance with the law.
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2022-03-29 18:48:50+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Serbian media, Moscow
📺 WATCH
📰 READ
Key points:
🔹 We are seeing unprecedented pressure as part of a general campaign, which some Western politicians call an all-out war against Russia where all means are justified.
🔹 This multi-ethnic self-reproducing bureaucracy with a seat in Brussels is trying to subjugate all countries without exception and concentrate all efforts to establishing rules and standards at the headquarters of the European Union, reducing to a minimum what its member countries can do on their own.
🔹 We are seeing attempts by the US, the EU and NATO to impose their hegemony on others, not only in the Balkans but also in the rest of the world –virtually everywhere else. I am convinced that most of the countries around the world realise that this is the path to a deadlock.
🔹 The United States has subdued the entire Europe. As for democracies and autocracies, this “community of democracies” represented by the US, NATO and the EU has become an integral whole (under US command). It is an overt autocracy if not a dictatorship as regards other members of the international community.
🔹Isolation doesn’t exist and is brought up exclusively by those who, mentally and ideologically, have resigned themselves to the inevitability of a Western dictatorship on the global stage. This dictatorship is supported primarily by the West itself which is loath to lose its positions. The West has been the world's dominant player for over 500 years now. A different era – the forming of a multipolar international order – is now here.
🔹 The West is trying to showcase the so-called “isolation” in which the Russian Federation allegedly found itself by presenting the mathematical results of the UN vote. We are aware of how they get these results and the kind of shameless blackmail the developing countries are subjected to, and personal threats against the representatives of these countries at the UN or other organisations. For us, this means only one thing: the United States and the Western countries that are playing along with this crude and undisguised blackmail are themselves afraid of being isolated.
🔹 Our Western colleagues did not give a damn (excuse me for this expression) about the sovereign equality of states or international law, generally speaking. They no longer use the latter term. They are saying now that all countries must follow the laws of a rules-based order. The rules mean only one thing – they are established by the West. Everyone else must obey. This is a typical example of autocracy and dictatorship that uses an ultimatum.
🔹 Isolation is the lot of those who couldn’t imagine their life without so-called “Western values” and without the welcoming embrace or at least a more or less warm reception in the West. Meanwhile, there are much more important things in life. They are a loadstar for the overwhelming majority of states and civilisations on this planet.
🔹 It is necessary to respect each other rather than impose one’s pseudo values in an aggressive manner. These have only existed for a short time. They appeared with the development of neo-liberalism and are used to discontinue millennia-old cultures and civilisations. This path is a dead-end. These attempts will continue for a while, but they are doomed in the historical perspective.
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2022-03-29 15:24:41+00:00
#Statement by the Embassy of Russia in Ireland
‼️On March 29, 2022, the Embassy of Russia in Ireland has been informed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland of the decision by the Government of Ireland to request that four members of the diplomatic staff of the Embassy leave Ireland shortly, because allegedly their actions have been found to be unacceptable. The Embassy rejects such qualifications of the work of our diplomats. This is arbitrary, groundless decision, which can only deteriorate further Russian-Irish relations, already damaged by the Irish participation in illegitimate EU sanctions against Russia. The Embassy proceeds from the assumption that such a step by the Irish side will not go unanswered.
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2022-03-29 12:22:49+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203291000-LIVE10413-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Ofitsialnii-predstavitel-MID-RF-Zakharova-provedet-yezhenedelnii-brifing
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-29 10:17:16+00:00
ON US-FUNDED BIOLABS IN UKRAINE
For those who wish to study the issue closer - here's a collection of Russian Defense Ministry presentations (🇷🇺/🇬🇧), as well as statements made by Russian Foreign Ministry officials (🇬🇧) on US-funded biolabs in Ukraine and their activities
🔗Direct link: https://bit.ly/3wJ6uu4
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2022-03-29 06:36:32+00:00
🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the outcomes of the European Council meeting in Brussels on March 24-25, 2022
💬 The results of the European Council’s meeting, held jointly with US leaders, reaffirmed the fact that the collective West needs Ukraine – a country that is completely controlled by Washington and in the grips of Russophobia – only as a geopolitical battering ram against Russia. This is why Ukrainian neo-Nazis are given money, weapons and ammunition which they use to kill civilians. They receive assurances of solidarity and unconditional support, and the cities destroyed by the neo-Nazis, whose residents are hiding from them in basements, are declared bastions of freedom and European values. However, the Kiev authorities’ mistaken bet is that the aggressive anti-Russian policy they are enthusiastically pursuing will hasten the day that they receive a “membership card” in the EU. Questions about Ukraine’s EU prospects are invariably answered with polite excuses.
The EU leaders’ attempts to assume the role of defenders of international law while accusing Russia of violating it are particularly inappropriate. As a reminder, in circumvention of the UN Security Council, the Western countries unleashed a series of military “humanitarian interventions” in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria and have been turning a blind eye to the genocide organised by Kiev in Donbass for many years now. With regard to “war crimes,” since 2014 Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened hundreds of criminal cases against the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions for the atrocities they have committed against civilians in Donbass.
The EU calls for Russia to provide humanitarian corridors in Ukraine are part of these attempts as well. Over the past weeks, the Russian Defence Ministry has been opening, on a daily basis, humanitarian corridors going in a variety of directions for civilians and Ukrainian military who have laid down their arms.
☝️ Brussels vows to impose more sanctions on Russia if necessary, failing to mention that only the United States will benefit from them, since it is profiting from the outflow of capital from the EU and increased exports of weapons and LNG at exorbitant prices to European markets. With their actions, the bureaucrats in Brussels are, in fact, undermining the EU countries’ economies, which they poorly understand to begin with. They are dooming Europe and everyday Europeans to the demolition of the existing socially oriented economic model and way of life amid skyrocketing prices for electricity and fuel, as well as cuts in social benefits in favour of military budgets, runaway inflation and mass unemployment.
As for the decision adopted by the European Council regarding the “reconstruction of a democratic Ukraine” and the establishment of a dedicated foundation towards this end, we consider it a belated decision. As we know, Ukraine's evolution towards democracy was suspended in February 2014, when an unconstitutional coup was carried out in Kiev at the behest of Western countries. Ukraine and its neighbours have been reaping the consequences for over eight straight years already. Now is the time for decisive measures to de-Nazify and demilitarise Ukraine, which is what the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are doing. We remain confident that once these measures have been fully implemented, the Ukrainian people will return to a peaceful and neighbourly path of development. The European Union, as well as its Western partners, has yet to realise the tragic consequences of flooding an aggressive neo-Nazi regime in central Europe with money and weapons.
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2022-03-28 20:22:51+00:00
⛓ #OTD in 1658, the Dutch brought the first large group of slaves to the Southern Africa region - a horrible milestone in the tragic history of the slave trade.
☝️ Fact: Unlike Western nations, our country never took part in the division of Africa and was not engaged in the slave trade, instead supported the liberation movements and young African states from the get go.
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2022-03-28 19:40:41+00:00
🎙 Statement of Russia's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in connection with the appeal of the UN Secretariat to ensure a ceasefire in Ukraine
💬 We took note of today’s statement by the UN Secretary-General calling on Russia to ensure a ceasefire in Ukraine for humanitarian operations.
We regret that in the same statement Antonio Guterres did not give any assessment of the actions of those members of the UN Security Council who on March 23 torpedoed the efforts of the Russian delegation to form conditions for the work of humanitarian workers on the ground that are binding for all parties to implement.
Once again, we remind of the content of the Russian draft of truly humanitarian resolution of the UN Security Council on Ukraine 👇
1) a call to establish a ceasefire and have humanitarian pauses to facilitate safe evacuation of civilians, as well as enabling unimpeded exit (free from any discrimination) from the territory of Ukraine to all those willing to leave;
2) a call to not attack critical infrastructure;
3) calls to not place heavy equipment in residential quarters and densely populated areas;
4) protection of humanitarian and medical personnel;
5) proper protection of the sick and wounded;
6) humane treatment of detainees;
7) protection of civilians, especially women and children.
☝️ We regret that the efforts of humanitarian workers in this country are becoming hostages to the geopolitical ambitions of the Western curators of Kiev.
We are still ready to cooperate with colleagues in the UN Security Council on the humanitarian track in Ukraine. We are open to discuss all the modalities. Daily humanitarian corridors are being open. The Russian Armed Forces guarantee safe evacuation through them to everyone who wishes to do so.
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2022-03-28 15:28:30+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova: The European Union supported the policy of discrimination against the people of Crimea by imposing restrictions to punish the people on the peninsula for making the democratic choice to be with Russia. These were the wrong people. Segregate them. This was the gist of their policy, even if they did not call it that way.
All these years, the EU couldn’t care less about water or human rights. Brussels never issued any statements warning Kiev against using water as war tactic.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 24.03.22)
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2022-03-28 14:59:48+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova: In the current circumstances of protecting people who have been subject to genocide, abuse, torture and oppression for eight years in Ukraine, the United States and its allies are hypocritically trying to feign righteous anger and cynically discussing alleged violation of international law – which they bombed to dust in 1999, repeating this “successful” experience multiple times in the 2000s. It is not their sermon to preach.
(excerpt from weekly briefing of 24.03.22)
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2022-03-28 12:04:18+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Meeting of the "United Russia" Commission on International Cooperation and Support for Compatriots Abroad chaired by Sergey Lavrov
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203281200-LIVE10399-Lavrov-chairs-meeting-of-United-Russia-Party-Commission-on-International-Cooperation-and-Support-for-Compatriots-Abroad
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-28 11:52:57+00:00
⚡️ Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on topical foreign policy issues at 3 pm MSK (approximately) on March 29.
In light of measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and WHO recommendations on holding public events via teleconferencing, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
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2022-03-28 08:33:43+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's interview to Serbian media on the topical international issues
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203280830-LIVE10409-Lavrov-gives-interview-to-Serbian-media
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-28 08:18:39+00:00
🎙 Comment by Ambassador Andrey Krutskikh, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security, Acting Director of the Department of International Information Security of the MFA of Russia “Cyberspace: war or peace?” to Newsweek, 22 March 2022
💬 Recently, the world has witnessed a blatant outburst of information crime. Further progress is impossible without ensuring cybersecurity.
Russia was the first to call for elaborating a comprehensive code of conduct in cyberspace at the UN fora. We need a set of obligations not to use ICTs as a weapon, a means of punishment or interference in domestic affairs.
Regardless of geopolitics, Russia remains open for dialogue and cooperation on information security with all states, and the United States is not an exception.
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2022-03-27 10:48:35+00:00
🎙 #Opinion by María Zakharova:
BioBiden
We can get a rough idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine if we rely on open sources as well as leaked documents. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
1991 – the US launches the Nunn-Lugar programme for the former Soviet countries to control/eliminate Soviet weapons of mass destruction including bioweapons. The Pentagon's Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was named as the programme’s main executor.
1993 – the Ukraine-US Agreement on the Prevention of Proliferation of WMD is signed.
2005 – an additional protocol is signed to the agreement between the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the DTRA on the prevention of the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and know-how that can be used to develop bioweapons. This is the start of the transfer of the Ukrainian military biological potential into US specialists' hands.
2000s – large US military-industrial companies are engaged in military biological activity in Ukraine.
2005-2014 – Black & Veatch Special Projects, a DTRA contractor, builds and upgrades 8 biolabs in Ukraine instead of eliminating military biological infrastructure, as was originally claimed. One of the facilities, a biolab in Odessa, has been financed since 2011 for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”
2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently - Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.
2009 – Rosemont Seneca Partners is established by former US Secretary of State John Kerry’ stepson Christopher Heinz and incumbent US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
2014 – anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Ukraine.
2014 – Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.
2014 – Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.
2014 - Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to "assert Ukraine's cultural & economic independence from Russia".
2014 - Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed "science project in Ukraine".
2014 - Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.
2014-2016 - Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
2016 – US citizen Ulana Nadia Suprun, a descendant of Ukrainian Nazis, is appointed Acting Health Minister of Ukraine. The US DoD and Ukraine’s Health Ministry cooperation programme is greatly expanded.
2016 – an outbreak of swine flu among Ukrainian Defence Ministry personnel guarding a biolab in Kharkov, Ukraine; 20 dead. The incident is hushed up.
2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.
2016 – EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.
2016 – the DTRA and Ukraine’s Health Ministry extend the contract after getting approval from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.
2019 – the COVID-19 mutated bat coronavirus pandemic begins with an outbreak in Wuhan.
February 24, 2022 – launch of the Russian Army’s special operation in Ukraine.
February 24-25, 2022 – rapid elimination of strains in biolabs in Ukraine.
March 8, 2022 – US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland openly acknowledges the existence of cooperation between the US and Ukraine in pathogens.
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2022-03-26 20:21:36+00:00
#FirstHandAccount #See4Yourself
UK national John Joyce, who has lived in Ukraine for 15 years with his wife Tatiana, escaped Mariupol and the clutches of the Ukrainian nationalists, and now tells his story.
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2022-03-26 17:27:21+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
The anti-Russian #fakenews factory is not slowing down. No matter how ridiculous or unfounded, all fakes are picked up & legitimized by the MSM. The newest low is passing off harmless military flares as phosphorus bombs 🤦♂️
#Think4Yourself
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2022-03-26 16:03:43+00:00
#Zakharova: Recently US representatives of various levels are trying to shed responsibility for Russian-US bilateral relations which are nearing a total rupture. The blame is routinely laid on Russia which is accused of escalation because we do not miss blows and always respond to hostile attacks either in-kind or asymmetrically.
Obviously, Washington thinks it normal to expel Russian diplomats on trumped-up charges, seize someone else’s property – or steal it, to put it bluntly, close down our diplomatic missions and then to hypocritically gape at why those “daring Russians” pay in their own coin thus hurting US missions in Russia.
👉 We advise those who follow the Russia-US relations should learn the timeline of aggressive actions against the Russian diplomatic presence. The facts speak for themselves.
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❗️We do not dodge dialogue and are ready to hold talks but only on equal terms, on condition there is a reciprocal movement which cannot be seen in Washington even under a magnifying glass.
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2022-03-26 14:31:00+00:00
💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria #Zakharova: On March 24, the resumed 11th Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly voted for the French-Mexican resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Despite its benign title, the document abounds in inappropriate, politicised language that is incompatible with the task of rendering coordinated, efficient aid to the country’s civilians.
❗️The adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly does not mean much in practical terms. Without a resolution of the UN Security Council that is authorised to grant mandates and security guarantees to humanitarian organisations and relevant UN structures on the ground, they are still deprived of the tools that are necessary for their activities. Meanwhile, this was precisely the goal of Russia’s Security Council draft resolution that was rejected by a majority of the Council members on March 23 abstaining in the face of aggressive pressure from Washington and its allies.
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2022-03-26 13:06:22+00:00
💬 On March 23, the UN Security Council voted on the Russian draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, with the majority of the Security Council member states abstaining, thereby making its adoption impossible. We express our gratitude to China, which voted in support of our project, as well as to the countries that co-sponsored this draft.
☝️The outcome of the vote at the Security Council once again demonstrated the cynical approach of our Western colleagues who are not concerned about the situation of the Ukrainians on the ground. All they are concerned about is leveraging any, even a purely humanitarian, issue to exert pressure on Russia.
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2022-03-26 13:01:20+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, Moscow (March 25, 2022).
💬 In recent years, Ukraine has been flooded with weapons, drawn into NATO, and nudged towards a forceful solution of the Donbass issue. The Kiev leadership was encouraged to sabotage the Minsk Package of Measures for the peaceful settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine even despite the fact that this document is part of international law and was approved by a UN Security Council resolution.
❗️We are particularly concerned about the geopolitical space of the former USSR, where the American military and the Pentagon are establishing military bio-laboratories. Even the host countries of these US facilities do not always know what kind of research they are making there.
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2022-03-26 10:48:02+00:00
📺 Watch Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speak on the most topical foreign policy issues and answer questions by the students and faculty of the @mgimo_university
In Russian with English subtitles
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2022-03-25 23:53:52+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhaniya.
💬 Being allies, we need to coordinate our positions in the periods when international relations are experiencing extreme pressure due to the West’s continued attempts to keep their dominant position in international affairs.
We are pleased about the development of our political and military dialogue, the military, technical and defence cooperation. All of this is well received by our peoples. We are interested in active development [of our ties].
🤝 We appreciated your decision to recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. We will actively facilitate the development of contacts with these new states. I believe that it will help stabilise the situation in our common geopolitical space.
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2022-03-25 23:26:17+00:00
🎙 Maria Zakharova’s comment on the UNGA vote on the French-Mexican draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
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💬 On March 24, the resumed 11th Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly voted for the French-Mexican resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
👉 Despite its benign title, the document abounds in inappropriate, politicised language that is incompatible with the task of rendering coordinated, efficient aid to the country’s civilians.
🤝 We are grateful to all countries that did not support the French-Mexican draft resolution despite the unprecedented anti-Russia campaign of the West.
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2022-03-25 14:50:16+00:00
⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
What an amazing piece of American investigative reporting we have here.
It reveals that Kiev and its Western patrons have been manipulating the public opinion on a mind-blowing scale.
It turns out that the image cultivated by all Western media for a month now by casting Ukraine as a victim results from a sophisticated and systematic effort by very serious people, probably for a lot of money.
First, the jokes about the communication guidelines turned out to be true. They do exist with the best Western PR agencies drafting key messages and what words must be used and when. They make video compilations for broadcasts and issue recommendations on sources. There is a direct ban on using “unverified media,” i.e., those that were not approved in the West.
Yaroslav Turbil is described as a key figure of the Ukrainian propaganda machine. A native of Kiev, he is linked to US intelligence and is head of Ukraine.UA, a website operated by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry that often serves as a source of planted propaganda stories.
The investigative journalists analysed these propaganda materials and concluded that the Ukrainian propagandists seek to spin various topics like the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant or the no-fly zone in Ukraine and serve them to a network of Western PR services, including the British PR Network and the US lobby groups like SKDKnickerbocker, Yorktown Solutions and Your Global Strategy. Those, in turn, have the experience of working with the Western media to deliver the right message to the Western audiences.
Judging by this investigation, those who masterminded this approach have partners, including Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, Dozhd, Mediazona and Russian-language services of the Western media such as the BBC.
This is a rigorous and differentiated effort. There are memes for the younger audience and serious political analysis for experts.
The authors of the investigation did not hide the mind-blowing scale of this system, which includes over 150 entities and major figures for communicating the Ukrainian vision of the conflict to the entire world.
Who pays for all this? This is not an easy question, but at least part of the PR effort is paid for by government subsidies allocated by the UK, the US and the Czech Republic, as well as entities belonging to billionaire George Soros, incredible as this may sound.
This giant squid has penetrated with its tentacles every TV set, website of major Western media and every newspaper to cultivate a worldview that is simple and clear. The creators of this mechanism couldn’t care less that it is at odds with reality.
The world has not seen a disinformation campaign of this kind since the cult of the Caesars.
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2229
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2022-03-25 10:04:37+00:00
#Opinion
✍️ Excerpts from the article by the Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy’s Vice-Chancellors Oleg Karpovich and Mikhail Troyansky «Serbian scenario for Russia?»:
💬 For many people in Russia, the campaign to “cancel” our country, which resulted in an unprecedented rampage of banal Russophobia, came as an unexpected shock. Having introduced the principle of collective responsibility for all Russians in retaliation for Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, it may appear that the West has crossed the boundaries of ethics and common sense.
👉 In search of an analogy, one can go back to the early 1990s. Back then, Yugoslavia faced this kind of smear campaign for the first time. Its government “dared” to fight for the country’s territorial integrity.
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❗️ A cynical attempt to use psychological warfare, blackmail and banal intimidation to force the citizens of Russia to oppose their state and their people will most likely have the completely opposite effect.
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2022-03-25 09:11:39+00:00
🔴#LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks during the Gorchakov Fund Board of Trustees meeting
🔗https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/623c704dff00f746cc6cd10d/19359/English
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-25 08:19:51+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania commence talks in Moscow
🔗 https://player.ruptly.tv/?streamurl=https://rldvr.gcdn.co/m3u8/202203250800-LIVE10393_Enc2_Ch2.m3u8
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-25 07:27:54+00:00
🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's #answer to a media question:
❓: Dear Ambassador, how could you comment on the new "package" of anti-Russian #sanctions on March 24?
💬Anatoly #Antonov: This is another example of obscuring the reality. The #US authorities are trying to punish members of the State Duma for expressing their own position that runs counter to #Washington's guidelines. Legislators defend the national interests of Russia. There is no other way.
🔷 It is obvious that the new "package" of anti-Russian sanctions aims to destroy the #economy and undermine the political situation in our country. Trampling on their own slogans about freedom of speech and democracy, the US authorities want to gag all dissenters.
🔷 Serial sanctions strikes will not achieve their goals. The untruth cannot bring the people of #Russia to its knees. No one can force us to sacrifice the good of the Motherland for pleasing the will of the United States and its allies.
🔷It would be good for the U.S. leadership to channel all their determination and uncompromising attitude to addressing the numerous problems of their own country and not assert themselves at the expense of the Russian Federation.
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2022-03-24 22:58:13+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at a meeting with students and faculty of the @mgimo_university
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Key points:
🔹 Ten or so years ago, our Western colleagues began urging everyone to respect what they called “rules-based order” and to follow these “rules” instead of “international law”. No one presents these “rules” to anyone because there are none. They are created from scratch for each particular case.
🔹 There is no doubt that containing any rival is one of the “rules” that the West is eager to implement. Today, Russia is that rival, but China has been declared next in line.
🔹To be an active tool for containment, Ukraine had to become “anti-Russia,” as President of Russia Vladimir Putin recently noted. Ukrainian authorities encouraged neo-Nazism and passed legislation on de-Communisation and on glorifying winners in World War II, among which they listed Shukhevich, Bandera and all other collaborators, who should have been tried by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. But nobody was interested in this subject. The “civilised” West silently watched and even encouraged this.
🔹 At the moment, it is not Ukraine that is being used to limit, humiliate and destroy everything that is Russian. The entire world has been commanded “get ’em,” even the “educated” West. One is under attack just for having a Russian passport, walking into a shop where the owner thinks you are a Russian. Never mind what is going on in sports, our Paralympic athletes – it is a cruel joke, the doom of the Western civilisation.
🔹 If you are a Russophobe, you are allowed to do anything. This principle is evident in the daily activities of the Ukrainian authorities for the past eight years.
🔹 The Ukrainian party, although it showed understanding of the matters to be coordinated during the talks, has been changing its position all the time, rejecting its own proposals. It is difficult to get rid of the impression that their American colleagues are holding them by the hand. According to Russian and Western political analysts, the Americans do not want this process to end soon.
🔹 The attempts to present Russia as isolated or being isolated is a futile attempt. We have many friends. Just take a look at how many countries have adopted sanctions and how many have refused to do so despite the immense US pressure, which I would describe as unbecoming of a great power.
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2022-03-24 19:29:59+00:00
💬 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov: We know who created a pretext for the bombing of Yugoslavia: US national William Walker, who headed the OSCE’s Kosovo Verification Mission. There were armed clashes, and he convened journalists to tell them that they had discovered the bodies of 30 civilians in Racak who had been massacred by the Serbs. He described it as genocide and took a unilateral decision, which he had no right to do, to withdraw the mission from Kosovo. This is what triggered the bombing. They said that the atrocity in Racak was the last straw and that they would cut short the activities of the criminal regime.
Later a special group was assigned to investigate the incident. It established that the dead were not civilians but militants who were dressed in civilian clothes after they had been killed in battle. The holes in their clothes did not align with the wounds. Yes, the case was investigated very thoroughly. So, saying that NATO’s invasion of Yugoslavia had a noble purpose is wrong and unethical.
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2022-03-24 19:09:10+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov met with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer.
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💬 Unfortunately, the humanitarian situation in the east of the country has only worsened in the 8 years since the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine.
We remember very well that over all these years, the International Committee of the Red Cross actively fulfilled its statutory functions, trying to provide humanitarian assistance to all civilians suffering from the war unleashed by Kiev.
☝️ We appreciate your traditional, depoliticised and international humanitarian law-oriented approach in various conflict situations.
❗️ We are interested in finding a solution to these problems, which are now building up in Ukraine. It is necessary to remove the artificial obstacles to the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of humanitarian aid.
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2022-03-24 17:41:40+00:00
🕯 On March 24, 1999, the #US and its #NATO allies began a 78-day armed aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
▪️ NATO conducted over 35,000 air raids, dropping some 3,000 cruise missiles and over 10,000 tonnes of bombs on the country. In TNT equivalent, this is five times the yield of the nuclear bomb, which the Americans dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
▪️ Over 2,000 Serbs, including children, women and elderly people, were killed in the bombing raids. They were later cynically described as “collateral damage.”
▪️ NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 was the first armed invasion of a sovereign state in Europe since 1945. That tragic contribution to European history was made by the “purely defensive” alliance.
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2022-03-24 12:53:56+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
https://www.ruptly.tv/ru/events/202203241200-LIVE10348-MFA-spokesperson-Maria-Zakharova-holds-weekly-briefing
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2022-03-24 10:31:22+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer hold a joint press-conference following talks in Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203241000-LIVE10372-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Lavrov-provedet-press-konferentsiyu-s-prezidentom-MKKK-Maurerom
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2022-03-24 09:10:41+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer commence bilateral talks in Moscow
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203241000-LIVE10372-Lavrov-meets-with-ICRC-Maurer-in-Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-24 07:13:01+00:00
🎙 Explanation of vote by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia after UNSC vote on draft humanitarian resolution in Ukraine
💬 This vote exposed all who place politicizing of the humanitarian file above the UN support for providing humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainians in need.
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Let’s have another look at the steps and measures that our Western colleagues prevented from being endorsed for political reasons. Our draft resolution contained such crucial elements as a call to establish a ceasefire and have humanitarian pauses to facilitate safe evacuation of civilians, as well as enabling unimpeded exit (free from any discrimination) from the territory of Ukraine to all those willing to leave; a call to not attack critical infrastructure; calls to not place heavy equipment in residential quarters and densely populated areas; protection of humanitarian and medical personnel; proper protection of the sick and wounded; humane treatment of prisoners; protection of civilians, especially women and children.
☝️ So, dear colleagues, when you start wailing here or at the General Assembly that some of the points I listed might not be implemented, we will remind you that you had them all in front of you, but you refused to vote to support them for political reasons. You had a choice and you made your choice.
We again heard some delegations accuse Russia of preparing and using chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine. We again heard the notorious fakes (that we had repeatedly debunked) regarding the events in Mariupol, regarding bombardments and killings of people standing the lines. I will not list all, because we spoke about it many times. Unfortunately, no one would listen and no one would hear that.
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The lack of a Security Council humanitarian resolution on Ukraine will surely make things more complicated for the humanitarians who work on the ground. It will allow the Ukrainian side to keep ignoring the demands for a ceasefire, needed to evacuate people via humanitarian passages. Kiev will continue using civilians as a “human shield” and, contrary to the international humanitarian law, placing heavy armaments in the vicinity of hospitals and kindergartens.
As for humanitarian deliveries, we will seek to solve this task, as we used to be solving it for Donbas (whose sufferings you choose to disregard) in the course of eight years.
The representative of Great Britain today reminded that we are all one human race. I agree. Unfortunately, many countries including Great Britain chose to not remember it in some other episodes. I will not mention all of them. I think this is not the right moment to do the citing. We regret all victims of conflicts, every human life is priceless. I could, but I will not remind what officials of states, i.a. those represented at this table said regarding mass deaths of civilians (including children) in conflicts.
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❗️We call on you to not politicize the humanitarian agenda. We regret that the Security Council was not able to adopt a resolution that would facilitate solving those issues. Nevertheless, we do trust that both us and members of the global community who are genuinely interested in this, will do their best to improve the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and alleviate suffering of civilians.
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2022-03-24 06:07:37+00:00
🕯 Today marks 2️⃣3️⃣ years since NATO began bombing #Yugoslavia.
◼️ Some 2,000 civilians, including at least 89 children were killed during the 78-day NATO campaign, and many facilities in dozens of cities, including Belgrade, were destroyed or damaged.
◼️ The use of depleted-uranium munitions contaminated large territories and caused an unprecedented surge in cancer cases. People continue to suffer from malignant tumours to this day.
❗️ On that day the West began dismantling the international legal framework.
Conducted 23 years ago, NATO’s military operation against sovereign Yugoslavia became a tragedy whose long-term and diverse consequences are still being felt. One of its main lessons is that lawlessness and arbitrary rule are unable to solve even a single problem and merely aggravate the situation. This is confirmed by permanent delays in resolving the Kosovo problem.
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2022-03-23 19:45:03+00:00
🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Government members:
💬 I have decided to implement, in the shortest possible time, a package of measures to transfer payments (to begin with) for natural gas supplied to “unfriendly countries” to Russian rubles; that is, we will not accept any compromised currency to be used in these transactions.
Russia will continue to supply natural gas in the agreed to volumes and for the agreed-on prices as indicated in the existing contracts. Unlike some of our colleagues, we value our business reputation as a reliable partner and supplier.
These changes will affect only the transaction currency, which will now be Russian rubles.
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2022-03-23 16:23:40+00:00
🇷🇺🇩🇪📞 President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz.
While discussing the situation around Ukraine, the leaders focused on the current talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. Vladimir Putin set forth a number of considerations in the context of the Russian Federation’s principled positions at these talks.
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2022-03-23 15:30:52+00:00
⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
Hoping to make use of the surprise wave of Ukrainophilia in the countries of the “progressive” West, the Kiev regime is churning out numerous “mobilisation” initiatives.
It has flown off the handle, because aggressive pacifists in Washington, Brussels and other “peace-loving” NATO capitals have stopped reacting to their Ukrainian wards’ shenanigans, even despite public discontent in their own countries.
All is grist that comes to Kiev’s mill. Its embassies are using their information resources to recruit volunteers for a “foreign legion,” while the authorities back home issue weapons to anyone willing to take them. They have released and armed criminals. They are recruiting students and sending them to fight miliary professionals after a three-day intensive training course. And now they have launched a virtual mobilisation, probably because the fake news resources of their psychological operations centres have been frayed.
The other day, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alexander Bornyakov announced the creation of an international IT Army of Ukraine.
The recruiting method is the same as in the case of the “legion” of foreign volunteers. This digital unit is ready to accept hackers, cybercriminals and other cyber-rabble from all over the world. Unlike the dogs of war in the material world, these “cyber warriors” don’t need to travel thousands of kilometres to risk their lives during the demilitarisation of Ukraine. Today they can sit in their warm chairs and do for money what they would have been sent to prison for yesterday.
Kiev has no scruples about disclosing the criminal goal of its mobbing campaign: to target the socially significant digital infrastructure associated with Russia, without any exceptions for the civilian sector or vital facilities. In other words, the targets are hospitals, maternity wards and nuclear power stations. Kiev also calls for hacking the accounts of major Russian companies. In plain English, Kiev has given its blessing to future cyber warriors for cyberterrorism.
Barely three days after Kiev’s plans for an IT army were announced, Rosneft subsidiaries in Germany suffered the largest hacking attack since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine. Pro-Ukrainian cyber warriors penetrated the corporate network, stole a large amount of data and destroyed 20GB of data to cover up their tracks.
This created major risks for Rosneft’s operations and the functioning of local oil refineries, including the one in Schwedt, which supplies fuel to the majority of filling stations in Eastern Germany. In light of the rising prices of gasoline and diesel fuel, the German authorities instructed the law enforcement bodies to investigate the attack despite the hackers’ “noble mission.”
This is quite revealing. The collective West keeps stepping on the same rake again and again. While using the “the end justifies the means” principle (or rather anti-principle) in their political games, the liberal democracies opted for recruiting the “forces of darkness,” such as Nazis in Ukraine or Islamic radicals in the Middle East, which have turned their weapons against their employers. By giving the Kiev regime a free hand to release more genies from the lamp, its patrons should remember that they will have to deal with the monsters themselves very soon. I doubt that the IT Army of 300,000 volunteer hackers (the figure was mentioned in Kiev) will dissolve itself and will stop its intrinsically, not to mention legally criminal activities. They will most likely turn their weapons against Western countries.
This is how a cyber-ISIS is being created.
https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2206
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2022-03-23 09:59:03+00:00
🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s address to the Israeli Knesset
💬 Vladimir Zelensky’s March 20 video appeal to the members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) evoked utter astonishment, to put it mildly, including among those to whom it was addressed.
The reason is the Ukrainian leader’s clumsy attempts to play upon the World War II tragedy of the Jewish people by drawing far-fetched parallels between the Holocaust and the current developments in Ukraine.
Vladimir Zelensky seems unaware of the fact that it was the Jews living in the Ukrainian SSR who felt the full impact of the blow delivered by the Nazi hordes during the Great Patriotic War. And it was only due to the adamant determination of the Red Army that it proved possible to thwart the heinous plans of the Third Reich and its satellites.
It is this memory that unites Jews, Russians and Ukrainians, who are true to their traditions and historical heritage.
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2022-03-23 09:46:57+00:00
🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on statements by International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan
Read in full
💬 The International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Karim Khan, has applied for warrants of arrest of three citizens of South Ossetia who also have Russian citizenship, for alleged war crimes against ethnic Georgians. He has also requested authorisation to open an investigation into the situation in Ukraine.
Of course, there is a reason behind the prosecutor’s decisions. He has decided to contribute to the anti-Russia hysteria that is raging in the United States, the EU and the bodies they are controlling.
👉 It is especially cynical that the decision to issue arrest warrants [against South Ossetians] was taken 14 years after the regime of Mikheil Saakashvili attacked peaceful Tskhinval and Russian peacekeepers and long after the ICC received numerous complaints from the civilian victims of that attack.
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2022-03-23 08:05:05+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to questions from MGIMO University students and faculty
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203230800-LIVE10356-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Lavrov-vistupit-pered-studentami-i-prepodavatelyami-MGIMO-v-Moskve
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-23 05:05:06+00:00
🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's #answer to a media question
❓: Dear Ambassador, what do you think of the continuing arms supplies to #Ukraine by the United States and its allies?
💬 Anatoly #Antonov: Pumping the #Kiev regime with weapons and sending foreign mercenaries to the Ukrainian territory is irresponsible and extremely dangerous. The militarization of Ukraine poses a direct threat to the European and global security.
🔷 The transfer of lethal weapons takes place through the arbitrary interpretation of national export control legislations by the authorities of Western countries. Licenses are often approved in a "simplified" mode. As a result, a significant part of weapons falls into the hands of bandits, Nazis, terrorists and criminals.
🔷 Do Western countries not realize that militants who have come from all over the world to #Europe can afterwards apply the combat experience gained in Ukraine anywhere, including back at home? Do they not understand the risks of the spread of missile weapons transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukrane across the European Union and neighboring regions as well as their use against civil aviation?
🔷 US politicians who make decisions regarding the uncontrolled supply of Stingers and other combat systems to Kiev should abandon their illusions and complacency. The #USA is not an isolated "island of prosperity". There is no guarantee that the weapons would not fall into the hands of extremists on its territory.
🔷 NATO member states have apparently forgotten how the United States were fishing the #MANPADS handed over to the #Afghan mujahideens in the 1980s throughout the entire Middle and Near East. And now, in the pursuit of financial gain, companies of the military-industrial complex have completely lost their moral guidelines and are willing to earn blood money.
🔷 We call on sponsors of the Kiev regime to stop encouraging bloodshed in Ukraine and give a serious consideration to the consequences of their activities.
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2022-03-22 21:23:25+00:00
🇷🇺🇫🇷📞 On March 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron at the latter’s initiative.
The Presidents continued a detailed exchange of views on the situation around #Ukraine, including the current talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.
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2022-03-22 20:43:42+00:00
🇷🇺🇧🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 On March 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the Moscow-accredited ambassadors from the #BRICS countries at a working breakfast.
🤝 The participants enthusiastically exchanged views on developing and strengthening their strategic partnership in the association. They reaffirmed their invariable interest in promoting the five-way dialogue at key international venues and other associations.
The participants reviewed current international issues with an emphasis on the situation in #Ukraine and around it. Sergey Lavrov presented a thorough analysis of the reasons for the Ukraine conflict and gave detailed explanations on the issues linked with ensuring security of civilians, including foreigners, organising humanitarian corridors and granting aid to refugees and other people who need it.
☝️ He stressed that the unprecedented economic war unleashed against #Russia through sanctions is a crude violation of key international legal standards.
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2022-03-22 17:32:20+00:00
🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the arrest of blogger Kirill Fedorov in Latvia.
💬 We are indignant at yet another glaring violation of fundamental human rights in Latvia where a well-known blogger was arrested for his assessment of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
Riga is once again demonstrating that it does not really care about its international commitments to freedom of speech and access to information.
❗️ We demand the immediate release of blogger Kirill #Fedorov and an end to this kind of lawlessness. The journalism community must be free to express its views.
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2022-03-22 11:42:07+00:00
⚡️The Ukrainian crisis and Russophobia
#Opinion by Prof. Mark Neimark, Dr. Sc. History, Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia
💬 The US leadership should have taken heed of a far-sighted warning given 25 years ago by the authoritative diplomat and analyst George Kennan, known for his contribution to the development of the Moscow containment concept. He possessed unique knowledge of Russia’s capabilities and potential and, based on his awareness, warned that “expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.”
❗️It is clear that the West’s centuries-old pulsating fears of Russia are here to stay, as are the never-ending phantom pains of Russophobia.
👉 Read in full
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2022-03-22 09:54:52+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
❌ #FakeNews: Russia indiscriminately bombs civilian infrastructure, including shopping malls
Mainstream media outlets "fiercely" report on Russian Forces bombing civilian infrastructure, including shopping malls... which is, yet again, an easily debunked piece of #FakeNews 👇
In reality: The Retroville mall in Kiev was shut down and used as a shelter and resupply depot for Ukrainian artillery and multiple launch rocket systems
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2022-03-22 07:14:52+00:00
💬 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the desecration of the Monument to Soviet Soldiers in Athens
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We are indignant over the desecration of the Monument to Soviet Soldiers in the centre of Athens. They lost their lives fighting for the freedom and independence of Greece in 1941-1944. This monument is one of the central venues for celebrating Victory Day every year. Unidentified individuals painted Nazi logos on the monument in yellow and wrote the title of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion Azov on it. Over the years, this battalion conducted punitive operations in Donbass and committed crimes against Mariupol civilians.
❗️ We strongly condemn this crime. We consider it a direct consequence of the anti-Russia hysteria unleashed by the local media. The continuous lop-sided and patently distorted coverage of events in Donbass, and support for the Kiev regime have let those who are willing to bury Russian-Greek common history and memory off the leash.
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2022-03-22 07:13:49+00:00
💬 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Bulgaria’s unfriendly actions
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On March 18, the Foreign Ministry of Bulgaria announced ten diplomats at the Russian Embassy in Sofia persona non grata. The demarche, unprecedented in scale, is the eighth in a series of Bulgarian expulsions of Russian diplomatic staff since 2019. Like the previous actions, this one was taken under a far-fetched excuse. At the same time, it blends naturally into the atmosphere of hysteria fuelled by the NATO and EU countries over our special military operation to protect the civilians of Donbass, and to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine.
We qualify this move as yet another provocation, an attempt to win the competition on the speed at which relations with Russia can be destroyed without giving any thought to the consequences, national interests or aspirations of the Bulgarian people.
As with the previous moves, this unfriendly act will receive an appropriate response.
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2022-03-22 06:40:25+00:00
✉️ President Vladimir Putin conveyed condolences to President Xi Jinping over the death of passengers and crew on a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou.
The people of Russia share the grief of those who lost family members and friends in this tragedy.
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2022-03-21 20:42:37+00:00
❗️Foreign Ministry statement on measures in response to the decisions of the Government of Japan 🇯🇵
💬 Considering the obviously unfriendly character of unilateral restrictions imposed by Japan on Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine, the Russian Federation is taking several measures in response.
🛑 Under the current conditions, the Russian Federation does not intend to continue peace treaty talks with Japan because it is impossible to discuss this fundamental document on bilateral relations with a state that holds an explicitly unfriendly position and seeks to harm the interests of our country.
🛑 Russia has decided to suspend visa-free travel for Japanese citizens under the 1991 agreement on visa-free exchanges between the Southern Kurile Islands and the 1999 agreement on maximally facilitated visits by former Japanese residents of the southern Kuril Islands to the places of their former residency.
🛑 Russia will withdraw from the dialogue with Japan on developing joint economic activities on the southern Kuril Islands.
🛑 Russia will block the extension of Japan’s partner status in the Organisation of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) on sectoral dialogue.
☝️ All responsibility for harming bilateral cooperation and the interests of Japan itself rests with Tokyo, which has deliberately chosen an anti-Russia course instead of developing mutually beneficial cooperation and neighbourly relations.
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2022-03-21 20:25:55+00:00
#Lavrov72
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2022-03-21 20:13:28+00:00
☣️ Latest batch of documents from US-funded Ukrainian biolabs assert that components of biological weapons were created there and dangerous pathogens were developed there as well as ways to transmit said diseases through migrating birds and bats. Here's a brief overview
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2022-03-21 15:00:34+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇿📞 At the initiative of the Uzbek side, President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
The Presidents discussed current issues of bilateral cooperation, including the implementation of agreements reached following the visit by the President of Uzbekistan to Russia in November 2021.
The Parties confirmed interest in further strengthening the strategic partnership and alliance between the two countries and expanding mutually beneficial ties in the political, trade, economic, and humanitarian spheres, as well as others.
Vladimir Putin informed his counterpart about the course of the special military operation to protect the republics of Donbass. The President of Uzbekistan spoke with understanding about the position and actions of the Russian side.
#RussiaUzbekistan
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2022-03-21 09:39:02+00:00
⚡️ Maryana Naumova's response to Arnold Schwarzenegger
💬 Mr Schwarzenegger, I watched your message to my fellow Russians. Obviously, you didn’t “work” on the letters I gave you, even though you promised. You are a wonderful motivator, athlete and actor, you are really loved in Russia, but your message is based on some other invented reality. Just like in the movies.
But the truth about what happened, Arnold, is in the letters that have been kept by your assistants since 2015. The true reality, Arnold, is on the ‘Alley of Angels’ memorial, in Donetsk, where everyone can read the names of children who were killed by bullets and bombs of the Ukrainian army. <...>
Please, find and reread the letters, that the children of #Donbass wrote to you back in 2015.
In the near future, I’m going to visit the Donbass schools again. Arnold, I’m sure it’s no more frightful and dangerous there, than it was in Iraq – I invite you to see everything with your own eyes.
Don’t side with Skynet, Terminator!
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2022-03-20 21:17:22+00:00
❗️The Russian Defence Ministry launched a historical multimedia project "Archives remember everything...", dedicated to the evidence of crimes and atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists against their people during the Great Patriotic War.
◽️ During the Great Patriotic War, the leadership of the Soviet Union and the Red Army command initiated investigations of the Nazi invaders' crimes in the occupied territories of our country.
◽️ Numerous facts of genocide of Soviet civilians by fascist invaders and Ukrainian nationalists were revealed and confirmed: abuse, robbery and mass murder (often with particular cruelty) of innocent civilians, including the elderly, women and children.
◽️ The fascist collaborators, the Ukrainian nationalist bandera fighters, have left a terrible and criminal heritage, slaughtering their own people...
Documents 🗂
#MoD #Russia
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2022-03-20 15:02:50+00:00
In an interview with Poland’s Gazeta, journalist Jacek Gądek asked an employee of the Faculty of Security Sciences of the Krakow Pedagogical University Rafal Kopecz the following question, verbatim: “The Third World War will be nuclear and destructive,” said Sergey Lavrov, the head of Russian diplomacy. Why is he trying to intimidate?
The actual Sergey Lavrov quote is as follows: “Better ask President Biden that. He was the one who said that the only alternative to a new sanctions package is a ‘third world war.’ That’s a strange way of thinking. So, if you ask a person if there was an alternative to sanctions, and his only alternative is war, he must realise that World War III could only be fought with nuclear weapons. But our Western partners couldn’t let go of their old habits if they believe this could happen in spite of all five permanent UNSC members declaring they are against it.”
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2022-03-20 14:48:36+00:00
🇷🇺🚚 Russian military personnel delivered 75+ tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of #Kherson, essentials & food supplies included.
☝️ Most of the city's residents are unable to purchase food, given that the government stopped paying wages & social benefits.
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2022-03-20 13:45:31+00:00
🇷🇺 Russia's President Vladimir #Putin:
💬 In many Western countries, people are subjected to persecution just because they are originally from Russia. They are being denied medical care, their children are expelled from schools, parents are losing their jobs, and Russian music, culture, and literature are being banned. In its attempts to “cancel” Russia, the West tore off its mask of decency and began to act crudely showing its true colours. One cannot help but remember the anti-Semitic Nazi pogroms in Germany in the 1930s, and then pogroms perpetrated by their henchmen in many European countries that joined the Nazi aggression against our country during the Great Patriotic War.
(excerpt from a meeting on socioeconomic support for regions, held by President Vladimir Putin on March 16, 2022)
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2022-03-20 12:10:18+00:00
The spiral of Russophobic pogroms and outright discrimination of Russians, unwinding in the West now, instigated by the politicians and the media - the public is being indoctrinated that Russia is to blame for the new reality they have to live in - must stop.
#StopRussophobia
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2022-03-19 19:47:48+00:00
Here are some examples of incitement to hatred in remarks by Ukrainian statesmen and public figures 👇
💬 Vladimir Zelensky, President of Ukraine
“You call them human [referring to people subject to NSDC (National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine) sanctions]? But they aren’t all the same. There are human representatives. Not all human representatives are human. There are species as well, I believe.” (Nov. 29, 2021)
💬 Yulia Timoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
“We need to take up arms and go kill those damn katsaps… I would find a way to kill those (expletive), and I hope that I will use all my connections, and I will raise the whole world as much as I can, so that not even a scorched field is left of Russia… They should be fired on with nuclear weapons.” (Mar. 24, 2014)
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2022-03-19 15:22:56+00:00
🎙 Statement by Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on biological laboratories in Ukraine
Key points:
🔹We discovered facts that Ukrainian authorities, supported and directly sponsored by the US Department of Defense, were implementing dangerous projects in the framework of a military biological program.
🔹US officials claim that there are no US-controlled biolabs in Ukraine, however the US Permanent Representative could not explain how these statements reconcile with the fact that there are documents proving this sort of “cooperation” between Kiev and Washington.
🔸Ukrainian authorities gave Pentagon a carte blanche and let them carry out dangerous biological experiments on the territory of Ukraine. Thereby, the American contractor was exempt from any taxes under Ukrainian legislation.
🔹This is cynical use of Ukraine’s territory and population for dangerous research that Washington does not want to have at home so that to not put its own population at risk.
🔸We call on states who provide their areas to Pentagon for such experiments to read carefully contract documents regarding their cooperation with the United States in the biological area. We fully support China’s demand to the United States to disclose information about activities of 360 US-controlled labs in the world.
🔹Information continues to be received about attempts to destroy biomaterials and documentation in laboratories in Ukraine in order to “cover up the tracks” of a military biological program.
🔹Western media, who readily perceive any fakes presented by Ukrainian authorities with the support of their Western sponsors, doubt authenticity of the materials published by our Ministry of Defense.
🔹It is not just about Ukraine and the United States violating the BTWC. It is about evidence of high-risk military biological activity that has been underway in the middle of Eastern Europe until recently. Its implications could have “spilled” beyond the borders of Ukraine and even the entire region at any point.
🔹Russia for many years has been calling to strengthen the BTWC regime, adopt a legally binding protocol to the Convention that would allow to create an effective verification mechanism and bind member states to report on their military biological activity abroad. The US has been opposed to this work.
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2022-03-19 13:54:52+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
The Neo-Nazis holed up in Mariupol, infamous Azov battalion included, continue to use thousands civilians as human shields. The Drama Theatre provocation is unveiled for what it is by the many residents that escaped their clutches in Mariupol.
#Think4Yourself 👇
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2022-03-19 12:24:20+00:00
💬 Russia's President Vladimir Putin: I want ordinary Western people to hear me, too. You are being persistently told that your current difficulties are the result of Russia’s hostile actions and that you have to pay for the efforts to counter the alleged Russian threat from your own pockets. All of that is a lie.
The truth is that the problems faced by millions of people in the West are the result of many years of actions by the ruling elite of your respective countries, their mistakes, and short-sighted policies and ambitions. This elite is not thinking about how to improve the lives of their citizens in Western countries. They are obsessed with their own self-serving interests and super profits.
The entire planet is now paying for the West’s ambitions and the West’s attempts to maintain its elusive dominance by any means possible.
(excerpt from a meeting on socioeconomic support for regions, held by President Vladimir Putin on March 16, 2022)
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2022-03-19 11:08:22+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with RT (Moscow, March 18, 2022)
🔸 Western sanctions
🔸 Multipolar world
🔸 US military biological labs in Ukraine
🔸 Uncovered plans by Kiev regime to launch massive attack against Donbass
🔸 International information war
🔸 Future of Russia-Ukraine relations
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2022-03-18 17:07:18+00:00
❗️ Eight years ago, on March 18, 2014, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea signed the Agreement on the Accession of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation and on Forming New Constituent Entities within the Russian Federation. The Crimean people had not been broken by the threats of Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis, and voted for reunification with Russia in a referendum on March 16, 2014.
To understand why the Crimeans made this choice, we need to recall the history of Crimea, its significance for Russia, and Russia’s significance for Crimea.
Learn more: https://is.gd/svmj14
#CrimeaIsRussia #8YearsTogether
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2022-03-18 16:58:24+00:00
🎙 From the Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine
💬 During the events of 2014-2015, when Ukrainian military sent planes and tanks to deal with the population of eastern Ukraine who did not welcome the new authorities, Mariupol was one of the centers of resistance in the DPR. Ukrainian nationalists did not forgive that.
Having drowned the city in blood, they in fact turned it into a headquarters and a stronghold of voluntary Nazi battalions, first of all “Azov” and the “Right Sector”. The airport of Mariupol was where the notorious torture chambers were located, with all corresponding attributes in place: ditched bodies of those tortured to death, confinement cells and chainsaws.
☝️ This is not the Middle Ages, this is neo-Nazism.
❗️ That is why Ukrainian radicals cling to this city. Firstly, it holds abundant evidence of their crimes, and secondly, they realize they will have to be accountable for that.
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2022-03-18 13:06:55+00:00
💬 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov on Russia-US relations: Of course, the situation is unprecedented. I can’t recall anything like the frenzied policy that Washington is conducting right now. To a considerable extent, this policy is generated by Congress whose members have lost all sense of reality and are throwing all conventions to the winds. I am not even mentioning the diplomatic proprieties that have long since been abandoned.
(excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RBC TV channel, Moscow, March 16, 2022)
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2022-03-18 12:55:33+00:00
🇷🇺🇩🇪📞 Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Scholz at the latter's initiative.
The discussion of developments around Ukraine continued. The President of Russia noted that the Ukrainian security forces shelled residential areas of Donetsk and Makeyevka, which resulted in heavy casualties.
It was noted that the Russian Armed Forces were doing everything possible to preserve the lives of civilians including by organising safe corridors for the population to leave cities in the war zone.
Vladimir Putin also provided an assessment of the talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives held via videoconference.
#RussiaGermany
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2022-03-18 12:27:49+00:00
On March 11, 2022, New York Post, a US media outlet, published an article expressing concern over the fate of Mark Vande Hei, a US astronaut who is currently on board of the International Space Station.
The article’s author, Kenneth Garger, writes that the US astronaut and his Russian colleagues were scheduled to return to Earth in April, but his return was “marred by uncertainty” after a “Vladimir Putin ally,” meaning Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin, reportedly “threatened to leave him behind.”
In fact, the head of the Russian state corporation never suggested that he was going to retaliate against a US astronaut because his country had destroyed international space cooperation. The return flight aboard Soyuz MS-19 is scheduled for March 30.
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2022-03-18 08:38:43+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview to RT TV channel
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203180830-LIVE10326-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Eksklyuzivnoe-intervyu-Lavrova-telekanalu-RT
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
🔗 https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/RTlivestream:8
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2022-03-17 21:30:54+00:00
Facts VS Fakes
Showcasing the West's web of lies.
#Think4Yourself & #See4Yourself
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2022-03-17 16:41:58+00:00
🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's gave interview to RBC TV channel (Moscow, March 16, 2022)
Key points:
💬 Under President Joe Biden, the #UnitedStates set the goal of subordinating Europe, and it has succeeded in forcing Europe to implicitly follow US policies. This is a crucial moment, a landmark in contemporary history because, in the broad sense of the word, it reflects the battle for a future international order.
💬 Dmitry #Kuleba stated that he did not arrive there to reiterate public statements. This statement got my attention. Dmitry Kuleba failed to vocalise any new ideas during the 90-minute conversation in the presence of Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, despite multiple reminders to the effect that I wanted to hear things that had not been said publicly.
💬 In the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, adopted before the Belovezh Accords, it was stated in black and white that #Ukraine would be a non-aligned and militarily neutral state. In all the subsequent documents characterising the formation of Ukrainian statehood, the declaration was always listed among fundamental documents.
💬 We remember that President #Zelensky recently said that NATO must close the sky over Ukraine and start fighting for Ukraine, recruiting mercenaries and sending them to the frontline. That statement was made very aggressively. The reaction of the North Atlantic Alliance, where some clear-headed people still remain, had a cooling effect.
💬 Many people now claim that Russia has come under attack because it remains virtually the only obstacle that needs to be removed before the West can start dealing with China. This straightforward statement is quite truthful.
💬 Over the years the #CouncilofEurope has turned into a kind of #OSCE, (excuse my language), where the initial idea of interaction and consensus as the main instruments of attaining the goal of common European cooperation and security was superceded by polemics and rhetoric, which was becoming increasingly #Russophobic and was determined by the unilateral interests of the West, in particular, NATO countries and the EU.
💬 In this context, it is strange that mediation services are being offered by the countries which have joined the unprecedented sanctions against Russia and have proclaimed the goal (they make no bones about stating this openly) of setting the Russian people against the Russian authorities.
💬 Any person or group in Ukraine that declares Russia its enemy is immediately taken under the wing of overseas and Western patrons.
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2022-03-17 15:33:54+00:00
🎙 Press-release on the outcomes of the ARF Workshop on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes
🇷🇺🇹🇭🇨🇳 The 2nd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Workshop on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes, co-chaired by Russia, Thailand and China, took place virtually on 15-16 March 2022.
The agenda of the workshop covered such issues as criminalization and crime prevention, international cooperation on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes, as well as international legal aspects of countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes and the practice of national and cross-border investigations.
The participants shared their approaches to the topical issues related to countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes. The discussion highlighted the need to enhance practical cooperation in this field and to early elaborate under the UN auspices the comprehensive international convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.
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2022-03-17 15:02:18+00:00
🎙 Reply of the Deputy Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Mrs. Tatiana Dovgalenko at the 70th Extraordinary session of the Executive Board
💬 Tatiana Dovgalenko: What an orchestrated performance of anger, slander, bile and hypocrisy at the stage of the leading humanitarian forum! What a parade of double standards and arrogance! <...>
To those who emotionally described the sufferings of the Ukrainians today, I would like to say, yes, it is true, their sufferings are terrible, and yes, the part of the Ukrainian people has lived in basements and under bombings for eight years. And, yes, it is true, people in some other countries have lived in similar conditions for many years. However, you have turned a blind eye to it. Why? Don’t you consider them as humans? What about the murdered children of Donbass? A monument dedicated to them was erected in Donetsk on the “Alley of Angels”. Don’t their lives matter?
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2022-03-17 14:14:09+00:00
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov's remarks following talks with Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Moscow, March 16, 2022)
💬 For eight years, Ukraine violated the Minsk agreements and resorted to bombing and shelling orphanages and kindergartens, schools and hospitals. However, the West did not show any sympathy for the victims or give any response.
The same applies to the attack on central Donetsk with the Tochka-U cluster munition, instantly killing 20 people (more were wounded), did not evoke any compassion, either.
The max coverage that I've seen was showing the location where it fell, and claiming that this was done by the Russian military, who ostensibly attacked a residential area controlled by the Ukrainian army.
❗️ During all contacts with our Western colleagues, we say that these outrageous and inhuman double standards are unacceptable.
I had a conversation with a European leader the other day. He said: “I have taken note of your version of the incident.” This requires no comment.
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2022-03-17 09:53:20+00:00
🎙 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin commented on the current international affairs during the meeting on socioeconomic support for regions:
🔸 The Kiev authorities started to implement plans to join NATO. Moreover, the Kiev authorities also announced their intention to have nuclear weapons and delivery hardware.
🔸 Our numerous warnings that such developments posed a direct threat to the security of Russia were rejected with open and cynical arrogance by Ukraine and its US and NATO patrons. In other words, all our diplomatic efforts were fully in vain.
🔸 Encouraged by the United States and other Western countries, Ukraine was purposefully preparing for a scenario of force, a massacre and an ethnic cleansing in Donbass. A massive onslaught on Donbass and later Crimea was just a matter of time. However, our Armed Forces have shattered these plans.
🔸 But what is shocking in its extreme cynicism is not just Kiev’s blatant lies and statements that Russia allegedly launched this missile at Donetsk (they have gone as far as this), but the attitude of the so-called civilised world. The European and American press did not even notice this tragedy in Donetsk, as if nothing happened.
🔸 It was no longer possible to tolerate this outrageous attitude towards the people of Donbass. To put an end to this genocide, Russia recognized the people’s republics of Donbass and signed treaties of friendship and mutual aid with them. Based on these treaties, the republics appealed to Russia for military aid in rebuffing the aggression. We rendered this aid because we simply could not do otherwise. We had no right to act otherwise.
🔸 I would like to emphasise this point and draw your attention to it: if our troops had acted only within the people's republics and helped them liberate their territory, it would not have been a final solution, it would not have led to peace and would not have ultimately removed the threat – to our country, this time to Russia. On the contrary, a new frontline would have been extended around Donbass and its borders, and shelling and provocations would have continued. In other words, this armed conflict would have continued indefinitely. It would have been fueled by the revanchist hysteria of the Kiev regime, as NATO deployed its military infrastructure faster and more aggressively. In this case, we would have been faced with the fact that the attack, the offensive weapons of the alliance were already at our borders.
🔸 To reiterate, the entire planet is now paying for the West’s ambitions and the West’s attempts to maintain its elusive dominance by any means possible.
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2022-03-17 09:45:37+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the UAE Abdullah Al Nahyan hold a joint press-conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇦🇪
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/kanal_2/
#RussiaUAE
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2022-03-17 09:09:56+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the UAE Abdullah Al Nahyan commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇦🇪
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/kanal_2/
#RussiaUAE
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2022-03-17 08:04:45+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203161200-LIVE10276-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Ofitsialnii-predstavitel-MID-RF-Zakharova-provedet-yezhenedelnii-brifing
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-16 21:38:19+00:00
#Opinion by Maria #Zakharova
A deep dive into the genesis of the Nazi comeback in Ukraine & how the West nurtured Nazi collaborators & their descendants.
💬 May 9, 1945. Berlin has surrendered, and the Nazi Reich has been condemned by the peoples liberated by Soviet soldiers and allied nations. Soon, the Nuremberg Trials will begin, condemning Nazism as a criminal and misanthropic ideology. Collaborators and Nazi accomplices in Ukraine are facing a difficult choice: should they continue fighting the Soviet regime on the liberated territory, or escape to the West?
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Ukrainian Nazis that fled from fair trial 75 years ago have returned to the place they were expelled from by Soviet soldiers via their children and with direct support from the West.
👉 https://vk.cc/cbW1Jp
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2022-03-16 20:10:37+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 On March 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinyan discussed the implementation of the trilateral agreements on #NagornoKarabakh between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, including issues related to observing the ceasefire and restoring transportation and logistical links in the South Caucasus.
🤝 The Leaders reaffirmed their shared intention to further strengthen the strategic partnership and alliance between Russia and Armenia. It was agreed that the Prime Minister of Armenia would visit Russia in the near future.
#RussiaArmenia
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2022-03-16 19:22:02+00:00
No Nazism in Ukraine they said...
Ukrainian TV, prime time. The host quotes Adolf Eichmann (a hardcore SS Nazi, one of the major organisers & masterminds of the Holocaust!) as a role-model and urges to kill all Russians, including children... slit their throats...
No Nazism in Ukraine they said...
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2022-03-16 17:59:49+00:00
💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov on the issue of US-funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine: The revealed facts point to the enormous scale of the US’s unlawful activities on spreading its military bio-laboratories all over the world. There are hundreds of them, including almost 30 in Ukraine.
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We will do all we can to force the Americans to stop blocking our proposal from 20 years ago on the need to create a special mechanism for verifying any alarming reports on the appearance of substances that may be used to develop biological weapons. They are against this mechanism because it would make any bioactivity transparent. They do not want transparency because they find it more expedient to do everything under their own control, as they have been doing up until now.
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2022-03-16 15:38:51+00:00
🎙 Remarks by the Head of the Russian delegation and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO Alexander Kuznetsov during the debate at the 7th Special Session of the UNESCO Executive Board (March 15, 2022).
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💬 Russia has consistently opposed any political agenda at UNESCO. One gets the impression that the Western countries, hysterical about the crisis in Ukraine that they have largely caused, are looking to take this organisation hostage in order to satisfy their geopolitical ambitions.
💬 True causes of the Ukrainian crisis are being grossly distorted or hushed up.
💬 For eight years, the Kiev regime waged a war against its own people. 14,000 people, mostly civilians, including women and children, were killed since Kiev launched its aggression against the local population.
💬 Why are the authorities in Kiev so dear to the US-led West, and why is the West ready to forgive them for any crimes against human rights? The answer is simple: the West needs any anti-Russia regime because it allows the West to use Ukrainian territory as a bridgehead to threaten Russia’s security and to “contain” this country.
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2022-03-16 13:17:14+00:00
#Opinion
On the threshold of changes
By Oleg Karpovich and Mikhail Troyansky Pro-Rectors at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy
From the first minute, the information war accompanying the Russian Federation’s special military operation in Ukraine has bred distorted and far-fetched interpretations of the Russian party’s goals and motives, with global media outlets, particularly the Western media, circulating them. For many months and even years, Moscow tried to inform the international public at large about the real-life situation and Russia’s concerns. However, these attempts were deliberately ignored. Efforts to demonise Russia have become ridiculous in the past few days, with the aim of replacing the facts of the matter with emotions and propaganda clichés.
So, what was the real cause of the special military operation?
First of all, the crisis around Donbass exacerbated the situation. For many years, Kiev brought this crisis to a boiling point by sabotaging the Minsk agreements <...> Western countries, including France and Germany, ignored Kiev’s ostentatious reluctance to follow in the wake of the peace process, year after year. <...> Moreover, Kiev beefed up its military potential along the line of contact to the maximum possible extent.
Second, throughout Ukraine, and especially in the country’s southeastern areas, the Ukrainian authorities implemented their official line aimed at oppressing the Russian-speaking population and any opponents of the country’s linguistic and ideological unification. In 2014, dozens of activists from pro-Russian movements were eliminated in Kharkov, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and some other cities. <...>
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The Ukrainian authorities had every opportunity to prevent a dramatic scenario, fraught with the sufferings of civilians, but they chose the road of confrontation. This confrontation must end as soon as possible, and this is now the only condition for de-escalating the protracted and explosive crisis around Ukraine.
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2022-03-16 12:36:25+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu hold a joint press-conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇹🇷
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/ru/events/202203161100-LIVE10299-PRYaMAYa-TRANSLYaTsIYa-Lavrov-i-Chavushoglu-provedut-press-konferentsiyu-v-Moskve
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2022-03-16 10:40:59+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇹🇷
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/6230e5f9545def67787e0038/19137/English
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
#RussiaTurkey
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2022-03-16 10:40:32+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷 FMs Sergey Lavrov & Mevlut Çavuşoğlu meet in Moscow
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2022-03-16 10:35:16+00:00
🎙 @MFARussia statement on personal sanctions on top leadership, MPs and anti-Russia figures in Canada
❗️ Competing with Washington in its Russophobic zeal, Ottawa has been introducing more sanctions on Russia’s top leaders and most of its MPs. In response to this, starting March 15, 2022, the Russian Federation will deny entrance to Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and National Defence Minister Anita Anand. The black list also includes the majority of the House of Commons members in the Canadian Parliament and aggressive pro-Bandera elements.
This step is a forced measure and was taken in response to the hostile actions of the current Canadian government that has gone beyond the bounds of decency and has tested our patience for too long. Each Russophobic attack, whether it is an act against Russian diplomatic missions, the closing of air space or the de facto breakup of bilateral economic ties by Ottawa to the detriment of Canadian interests, is bound to receive a strong and not necessarily symmetrical rebuff.
👉 Here is a list of Canadian citizens that will now be denied entry into the Russian Federation
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2022-03-16 09:30:49+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Presentation of the brochure "25 questions about Crimea"
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-16 08:13:07+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's interview to the RBC TV channel
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-16 07:26:51+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the US regarding the new personal sanctions imposed by the United States
🔹 On March 15, after numerous publications and their removals from the websites, the U.S. Department of State and The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced additional personal sanctions against Russian officials.
🔹 Another hostile action drives Russian-U.S. relations further into an even more dead end. It hinders the maintainance of the few channels of interaction between our countries.
🔹 Such attacks will not go unanswered, as is required by the principle of reciprocity.
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2022-03-16 06:33:09+00:00
A few hints to certain US politicians & officials on geography, history & culture of far far away lands.
Unabridged truth 👇
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2022-03-15 21:02:46+00:00
🕯 The Donetsk People's Republic was mourning today for the victims (21 dead) of the inhumane missile attack of March 14th by the Ukrainian military, aimed at civilians in Donetsk.
The Western mainstream media yet again turned a blind eye, promoting fakes and staged provocations instead.
Simply compare the raw horror and authenticity of this footage against the professional White-Helmet-style professional prepped camera & photo job in Mariupol or Kharkov, using models, make-up and innately designed for the front pages of the MSM. This is how the people of Donbass have been suffering for 8 years. And this is exactly the reason Russian or alternative media is being blocked & censored in the West.
Viewer discretion strongly advised.
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2022-03-15 20:44:21+00:00
❗️ Considering what the Council of Europe has become, we part ways without regret. Our country’s withdrawal from this organisation will not affect the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens. The Constitution of the Russian Federation does not provide lesser guarantees of them than the European Convention on Human Rights. The provisions of the core CE treaties and legal acts are incorporated in Russian legislation.
Russia is a party to the key universal international human rights treaties concluded within the UN. This includes the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other treaties that guarantee a wider range of human rights and freedoms than regional CE documents.
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2022-03-15 20:30:41+00:00
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Moscow, March 15, 2022
❗️ We touched on the situation in Ukraine and around it. We thanked our Iranian colleagues for their objective and well-thought-out position and for understanding Russia’s security concerns, which were caused by the destabilising actions of the United States and its NATO allies.
The negotiations are ongoing on Ukraine’s neutral military status with security guarantees for all participants in this process; Ukraine’s demilitarisation to prevent any threat to the Russian Federation from its territory ever; and the termination of that country's nazification policy supported by a number of Ukrainian legal acts, including the abolition of all discriminatory restrictions imposed on the Russian language, education, culture and media in Ukraine.
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2022-03-15 18:17:46+00:00
❗️ Foreign Ministry statement concerning personal sanctions on US senior officials and affiliated persons.
In response to a series of unprecedented sanctions that prohibit, among other things, entry to the United States for top officials of the Russian Federation, starting March 15, the Russian stop list includes, on the basis of reciprocity, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, as well as several agency heads and other prominent US figures.
☝️ This step, taken as a response measure, is the inevitable result of the extreme Russophobic policy of the current US Administration, which, in a desperate attempt to maintain American hegemony, has abandoned any sense of decorum and placed its bets on the head-on containment of Russia.
However, we do not oppose maintaining official ties when it is in our national interests, and, if necessary, we will address the issues arising from the status of the black-listed individuals in order to organise high-level contacts.
The list of US citizens included in the stop list is as follows:
1. Joseph Robinette Biden;
2. Antony John Blinken;
3. Lloyd James Austin III;
4. Mark Alexander Milley;
5. Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan, National Security Advisor;
6. William Joseph Burns, Director of the CIA;
7. Jennifer Rene Psaki, White House Press Secretary;
8. Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor;
9. Samantha Jane Power, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development;
10. Robert Hunter Biden, son of the US President;
11. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, former US presidential candidate;
12. Adewale Adeyemo, US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury;
13. Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
More announcements will be made soon concerning the expansion of the sanctions list to include other top US officials, military leaders, lawmakers, business executives, experts and media personalities who promote Russophobia or contribute to inciting hatred of Russia or imposing restrictive measures.
These actions will be taken in harmony with the major decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation in finance, banking and other areas to protect the Russian economy and ensure its stable development.
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2022-03-15 17:58:20+00:00
🎙 #Statement by H.E. Ambassador Shulgin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OPCW at the 99th Session of the Executive Council, General Debate, Hague, March 8th, 2022.
💬 Alexander #Shulgin: This year marks 25 years since the entry-into-force of the Chemical Weapons Convention. This is, without a doubt, an historic moment. Over the period of its existence, the Organisation has achieved impressive results.
Unfortunately, however, it must be said that in spite of these colossal efforts, we are still far from our common end goal: ridding the world of chemical weapons. The only possessor State today – the USA – has for a quarter of a century been dragging out in every possible way the moment of the country’s chemical demilitarisation.
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👉 We all know perfectly well what this kind of dictatorship leads to. The illegitimate decision to assign the OPCW with extrinsic attribution functions has transformed one of the most successfully organisations ever in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation into a kangaroo court for undesirable governments.
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2022-03-15 16:02:05+00:00
🎞 #Donbass refugees share their memories of eight years of war waged against them by the Kiуv regime.
🙏 These days, for the first time in a long time, they can finally feel safe.
#DonbassTragedy
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2022-03-15 15:23:53+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the inauguration ceremony of Kazan as the "youth capital of the OIC"
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-15 13:27:22+00:00
Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation:
Russia will honour all its obligations to service and redeem government securities in a timely manner.
In order to repay its Eurobonds, the Finance Ministry will issue payment orders to agent banks instructing them to execute payments in foreign currency in keeping with the timeline set forth in the corresponding emission documents. Whether the funds can be transferred will depend on the restrictions resulting from sanctions imposed on the Government and the Bank of Russia.
If a foreign correspondent bank is unable to execute the payment order, it will be recalled. In that event, the following procedure will be used to fulfil the payment obligations:
✅ The Eurobonds will be repaid in roubles as per the exchange rate set by the Central Bank as of the payment date.
✅ Depending on where the Eurobond certificate is kept, the National Settlement Depository will either proceed to settlements with the creditors on its own, or transfer funds to the accounts of individuals and foreign lending institutions.
“We have the required funds for servicing our debt,” Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.
The Finance Ministry will keep the agent banks updated on its efforts to service and repay its Eurobonds as per the terms of issuance.
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2022-03-15 12:36:23+00:00
💬 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov: We will solve the problem – and the solution will be to no longer depend on our Western partners, be it governments or companies that are acting as tools of Western political aggression against Russia instead of pursuing the interests of their businesses. We will make sure that we never again find ourselves in a similar situation and that neither some Uncle Sam nor anybody else can make decisions aimed at destroying our economy. We will find a way to eliminate this dependence. We should have done it long ago.
(excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, Antalya, March 10, 2022)
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2022-03-15 10:54:06+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hold a joint press-conference following talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇮🇷
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203151000-LIVE10285-Lavrov-Amir-Abdollahian-hold-press-conference-in-Moscow
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
#MFA #PressConference #RussiaIran
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2022-03-15 09:45:17+00:00
#HappeningNow
🇷🇺🇮🇷 FMs Sergey Lavrov and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meet in Moscow
🤝 #RussianIran
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2022-03-15 09:12:28+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian commence bilateral talks in Moscow 🇷🇺🇮🇷
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203150900-LIVE10284-Lavrov-and-Irani-counterpart-Amir-Abdollahian-hold-talks-in-Moscow
🔗 https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
#MFA #RussiaIran
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2022-03-14 22:28:21+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇱📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett at the Israeli side’s initiative.
The leaders continued the exchange of views on the special operation to defend the republics in Donbass. In this context, Vladimir Putin pointed out the latest barbarous action of the Ukrainian military – today’s missile attack at Donetsk central part. The missile had a cluster munition, which resulted in numerous civilian casualties.
Naftali Bennett told the President of Russia about his recent contacts on Ukrainian issues with the leaders of a number of states. In turn, Vladimir Putin told Naftali Bennett about his assessments of the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives, which are being held these days via videoconference.
The leaders agreed to maintain contact.
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2022-03-14 21:53:21+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry statement on Ukraine’s strike on Donetsk
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💬 At 11:30 am on March 14, Ukrainian forces hit a residential neighbourhood in Donetsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile with a cluster munition warhead prohibited under international law.
Although intercepted by air defence, preventing catastrophic losses, the downed missile still landed on the peaceful city and killed 20 and seriously wounded 28 people, including children, women and seniors.
On behalf of the people and leadership of our country, the Foreign Ministry conveys its deep condolences to the families and friends of the dead, as well as to the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, and wishes a speedy recovery to the wounded. We are confident that this crime against humanity will not go unpunished.
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2022-03-14 21:27:55+00:00
🇷🇺🇶🇦 FM Sergey Lavrov at a joint news conference following talks with FM of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani
📍 Moscow, March 14, 2022
#Ukraine
Qatar is willing and is trying to use any potential to help reach an agreement on the current agenda, with due regard for the interests of common European security, including the security of Russia and Ukraine, and the importance of precluding any threat from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
#Syria
We stand for the full and comprehensive implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2254. We are aware of Qatar’s interest in working together with Russia and Turkey to promote a solution to humanitarian problems in Syria.
#MiddleEastSettlement
Russia and Qatar stand for consolidating international efforts as soon as possible to resume the Palestinian-Israeli talks aimed at settling the main issues of the permanent (final) status of the Palestinian state.
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2022-03-14 16:51:30+00:00
🎙 Statement of the head of the delegation of the Russian Federation at the 65th session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Oleg Syromolotov
💬 Throughout all these years the three drug control conventions have constituted the strong foundation of our international legal cooperation. It is unfortunate that today we see attempts to shatter this foundation and distort its essence.
Legalization of free distribution of cannabis in such countries as the United States of America and Canada is a matter of serious concern for us. It is worrisome that several Member States of the European Union are currently considering violating their drug control obligations. Such approach is unacceptable.
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2022-03-14 15:45:12+00:00
💬 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: We have explained many times that the situation in Ukraine has evolved in such a way that it poses a direct threat to Russia’s security. No one listened despite all our reminders, admonitions, calls and proposals during all these years. President Vladimir Putin has spoken on this topic many times. New evidence which is now being uncovered on the liberated territories, in particular in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, demonstrates that there was a detailed plan to attack these People’s Republics this month.
We are also outraged by what Pentagon has been doing in the biological laboratories created with its funding. It uses the Ukrainian territory to carry out experiments with pathogens which can then be used to create biological weapons.
(excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, Antalya, March 10, 2022)
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2022-03-14 15:11:12+00:00
🇷🇺🇶🇦 FM Sergey Lavrov during talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Moscow, March 14, 2022
💬 Our bilateral relations continue to develop dynamically based on the agreements reached by President Vladimir Putin and Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. They maintain regular contacts and personal control over all matters related to the advancement of mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas.
Investment partnership is an important component of our ties. Our parliamentarians, cultural and sport figures are in close contact and humanitarian exchanges are in progress. I am confident that we will discuss their further development in a productive manner today.
We have a constant interest in your assessments and observations with regard to the efforts that could be made to advance towards the settlement of numerous conflicts and crises in the Middle East and North Africa.
#RussiaQatar
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2022-03-14 14:10:25+00:00
Russian Defence Ministry (@mod_russia_en):
❗️Statement by Russian Defence Ministry
▪️ On March 14, at about 11.30 a.m. Moscow time, Tochka-U tactical missile was fired at a residential block of Donetsk city from the territory controlled by the Kiev nationalist regime.
▪️ The shelling of the city was carried out from the north-western direction, from the area of Krasnoarmeysk settlement, which is controlled by Ukrainian nationalist units.
▪️ As a result of the explosion of a cluster warhead in the center of Donetsk, 20 civilians were killed. Another 28 people, including children, were seriously injured and taken to medical institutions.
▪️ The use of such weapons on a town with no armed forces firing positions, i.e. deliberately targeting civilians, is a war crime.
#Ukraine #Donetsk #WarCrime
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2022-03-14 10:49:47+00:00
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a question from TASS news agency
💬 Representatives of the Kiev regime, including the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU), have recently planted information about the situation around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that is not true and is disinformation.
The Russian forces have assumed control of the power plant in a manner that ruled out any danger to its safety. Background radiation levels at the power plant are normal, which has also been confirmed by the IAEA. <...>
☝️ Attacks against their own nuclear facilities have become the signature of the ruling Ukrainian regime. The blame for this lies squarely with Kiev, the American masters of Vladimir Zelensky and US vassals in NATO. Without their support, such provocations would have been pointless.
The Western political opportunists, who are encouraging Vladimir Zelensky’s actions, are endangering human lives not only in Ukraine and Russia, but also throughout Europe.
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2022-03-14 10:24:42+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Qatar Mohammed Al Thani hold a joint press-conference following talks in Moscow
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203141000-LIVE10265-Lavrov-Al-Thani-hold-press-conference-in-Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-14 09:06:48+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Qatar Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Thani commence bilateral talks in Moscow
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202203140900-LIVE10264-Lavrov-and-Qatari-counterpart-Al-Thani-meet-for-talks-in-Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-14 08:52:17+00:00
🇷🇺🇬🇧 Russian Embassy in the UK:
Yesterday St Nicholas Orthodox Church in Oxford suffered a break-in. Holy relics, crosses & altar vessels stolen, a safe & money boxes forced open, donations to support refugees from Ukraine stolen. This vividly shows what ramped up #Russophobia in UK leads to.
❗️ This must stop.
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2022-03-14 05:05:34+00:00
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Embassy commentary in response to the publication of The Wall Street Journal
🔹On March 13, citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal published an article accusing Russian prosecutors of intimidating representatives of the American business community and threatening to nationalize their assets in Russia.
🔹Once again, we urge local media to abandon the vicious practice of spreading fake news. The Wall Street Journal opus is pure fiction.
🔹Many Western enterprises operate on the territory of our country, more than 1000 of them are American. Each year the United States sent numerous delegations to economic forums held in Russia. This shows that mutually beneficial business cooperation between the two countries has always been a policy-free zone. Even in the most difficult situation, US commercial interests in the capacious Russian market are not infringed in any way.
🔹The decision whether to continue entrepreneurial activity in our country is entirely up to the Americans. As well as the right to ignore the russophobic hysteria that encourages foreign businesses to suffer huge losses in order to hit Russia.
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2022-03-13 14:29:13+00:00
Over 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid, including food supplies and drinking water, was delivered by @mod_russia to the people of the Borodyansky district in Kiev region.
Humanitarian support to the civilians is provided on a daily basis throughout the areas liberated from the Kiev regime forces and areas, previously held by Neo-Nazi militants.
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2022-03-12 22:13:16+00:00
🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 📞 Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Scholz and President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.
In response to the issues raised by the leaders of France and Germany regarding the humanitarian situation on the territory of the military operation to protect Donbass, Vladimir Putin informed them of the real situation on the ground.
👉 The President of Russia gave a detailed account of the series of talks held via videoconference by Russian and Ukrainian representatives over the past days. In this connection the three countries’ leaders reviewed some issues pertaining to the agreements being worked out concerning the implementation of the earlier Russian demands.
The leaders agreed to continue their contacts on Ukrainian issues.
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2022-03-12 19:15:24+00:00
💬 Opinion by Maria #Zakharova
Ukraine’s biolabs were funded by the Pentagon to develop biological weapons. These labs in Ukraine were subordinate to the Health Ministry.
In the summer of 2016, Barack Obama’s Democrat administration sent US national Ulyana Suprun (born and raised in the US) to Ukraine, where she became Health Minister of Ukraine.
Ulyana Suprun’s father, George Harry Jurkiw, is a retired vice-president of North American Controls Inc, a defence industry corporation.
Ulyana Suprun’s grandfather, Ivan Jurkiw, was a corporal in the independent army of Ukraine in 1919. There are reports that in WWII he was a member of Bandera units and took part in combat and sabotage missions against Soviet troops in the Carpathian Mountains.
Ulyana Suprun’s husband, Marco Suprun, is a Canadian propagandist and producer. He is notorious for his contacts with ultra-right activists in Ukraine.
This is just one instance that illustrates how demilitarisation is connected with deNAZIfication.
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2022-03-11 22:38:57+00:00
💬 #Zakharova: We confirm facts revealed during the special military operation in Ukraine, which prove that the Kiev regime has been destroying the evidence of military biological programmes Kiev was implementing. They were funded by the US Department of Defence.
We remember how they have been searching for chemical, biological or bacteriological weapons across the globe for years, with exceptional bloody efficacy, invading countries and killing people. Well, you have been searching in all the wrong places. We have found them for you. Your projects, your biological samples, including those for military purposes in the first place, are in Ukraine. What were you doing there? It's a different continent. No common borders. No US bases. What were your specialists doing then under the guise of scientific developments, giving regular instructions to the Ukrainian side?
The world has the right to know what they were going to make there, what their purpose was. The game is over.
(excerpt from 09.03 spox briefing)
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2022-03-11 19:34:47+00:00
144 million people live in #Russia 🇷🇺
We love, rejoice, study, work, take care of each other and protect our loved ones.
Russia is each of us.
#IamRussia
#StopHatingRussians
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2022-03-11 16:22:10+00:00
🔴 Watch #Live: UN Security Council Session on threats to international peace and security. Among the issues - US biological military programme in Ukraine.
👉 https://media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k16nsx50dm
Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia to deliver speech following the briefings by the UN Secretariat.
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2022-03-11 16:05:40+00:00
National document of the Russian Federation circulated in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the UN Security Council on 10 and 11 March 2022 “Regarding potential chemical provocations in Ukraine” (excerpts):
❗️ Radical Ukrainian groups under the control of the representatives of American special services have prepared several potential scenarios of the use of toxic chemicals in order to carry out various types of provocations.
The objective of such actions is to accuse Russia of the use of chemical weapons against the civil population and violating its obligations, including those under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Despite our warnings, the Ukrainian side did not back out of this type of terrorist attack.
☝️ The risks are growing of extremist-inclined elements acting as part of so-called national battalions that may be set on taking radical steps, the horrific consequences of which is impossible to predict.
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2022-03-11 13:55:26+00:00
🇷🇺🇦🇲 On March 10, FM Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
The Ministers discussed topical matters of the bilateral agenda, including preparations for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s official visit to the Russian Federation in April 2022, as well as a number of other events marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The officials exchanged opinions on regional matters and reaffirmed the striving of both countries to consistently fulfil the agreements between Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders of November 9, 2020, and January 11 and November 26, 2021. They discussed steps to further stabilise the situation in the South Caucasus.
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2022-03-11 12:11:06+00:00
On March 8, Russia’s “partners” in the Northern Dimension (the European Union, Iceland and Norway), followed by BEAC members (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden) and the EU on March 9, came forward with unsubstantiated accusations against Russia, announcing Russia’s suspension from these two formats.
These clearly unfriendly steps run contrary to the fundamental principles of the Northern Dimension and BEAC operations, which are based on consensus and have not been affected by the political situation until recently. Refusal to cooperate within these formats may undermine the stability, trust and neighbourly relations in Northern Europe, with the contacts between people that took decades to build potentially winding down.
We will continue to closely monitor the developments in the Northern Dimension and BEAC and will also assess their legal standing. But even now, it is clear that without Russia, the existence of these bodies loses meaning.
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2022-03-11 11:33:23+00:00
🎙 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the USA on the extremist activities of ♾ #Meta
🔹 We paid attention to the Reuters message about the permission of the Meta corporation to post calls for violence against the Russian leadership and our military personnel on Facebook and Instagram. This information was confirmed by the spokesperson of the company Andy Stone with his statement stressing that the phrase "death to the Russian invaders" is now normal for social networks.
🔹 Meta's aggressive and criminal policy leading to incitement of hatred and hostility towards Russians is outrageous. The company's actions are yet another evidence of the information war without rules declared on our country. Media corporations have become soldiers of the propaganda machine of the Western establishment.
🔹 We demand that the US authorities stop the extremist activities of Meta and take measures to bring the perpetrators to justice. Users of Facebook and Instagram did not give the owners of these platforms the right to determine the criteria of truth and pit nations against each other.
https://t.me/EmbUSA/31
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2022-03-11 08:41:00+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
As confirmed, based on facts and evidence, by Russia's Ministry of Defence and FM Sergey Lavrov as well as independent investigative outlets, the maternity hospital "incident" in Mariupol was indeed a hoax, completely staged by the Neo-Nazi "Azov" battalion. The #fakenews regarding "Russian attack" were actively disseminated by the Western politicians, digital platforms and mainstream media, while voices debunking the fakes were suppressed and eradicate (including Russian Embassies' tweets being blocked and deleted).
#Think4Yourself
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2022-03-11 08:29:45+00:00
🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a number of meetings on the sidelines on of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
🔹 Foreign Minister Lavrov met with with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi.
🔹 Foreign Minister Lavrov met with UN Special Envoy for #Syria Geir Pedersen on the sidelines of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya.
🔹 Foreign Minister Lavrov met with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov.
🔹 Foreign Minister Lavrov met with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu
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2022-03-10 16:56:35+00:00
Russia's EMERCOM delivers 220 tonnes of humanitarian aid, including vital supplies, to the people #Donbass.
Video: @mchs_official
#RussiaHelps
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2022-03-10 15:26:29+00:00
⚡️ The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study materials on the implementation of military biological programme of the United States and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine.
🦠 Details of the UP-4 project became known, which was implemented with the participation of laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa and was designed for the period up to 2020.
Its purpose was to study the possibility of the spread of particularly dangerous infections through migrating birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, the mortality rate of which reaches 50% for humans, as well as Newcastle disease.
❗️145 biological species were studied within the framework of this project. At the same time, at least two species of migratory birds were identified, whose routes pass mainly through the territory of Russia.
🦠 In addition, the R-781 project is interesting, where bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons agents.
☝️ It is noteworthy that the research is carried out in close proximity to the borders of Russia – in the areas of the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus.
The project is being implemented with the involvement of not only Ukrainian, but also Georgian biological laboratories controlled by the Pentagon in cooperation with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the US Geological Survey.
🦠 The analyzed materials on the UP-8 project, aimed at studying the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine, clearly refute the US public statement that only Ukrainian scientists work in the Pentagon biolabs in Ukraine without the intervention of American biologists. One of the documents confirms that all serious high-risk studies are conducted under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States.
In addition, the studied materials contain proposals for the expansion of the US military-biological programme in Ukraine.
❗️The Pentagon is also interested in insect vectors capable of spreading dangerous infectious diseases. The analysis of the obtained materials confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats - fleas and ticks from the biolab in Kharkov abroad.
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2022-03-10 14:55:19+00:00
🇷🇺🇿🇦 📞 President Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa had a telephone conversation.
The Leaders exchanged congratulations on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and South Africa and reaffirmed their commitment to further develop the bilateral strategic partnership, noting, in particular, their readiness to expand trade, economic and humanitarian cooperation, as well as joint COVID-19 response efforts. The Presidents underscored the importance of continuing interaction within the BRICS framework and at other international venues.
At the request of Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of Russia spoke about the reasons for and goals of the special military operation to protect Donbass. He also informed the South African leader about the situation regarding talks with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. The President of South Africa supported the ongoing political and diplomatic efforts.
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2022-03-10 09:58:58+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov holds a press conference following talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu & Ukrainian Head of MFA Dmitry Kuleba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vvF7h1LWo
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-10 09:33:45+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷🇺🇦 In #Antalya, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry #Kuleba
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2022-03-10 09:20:52+00:00
⚡️ The EU and NATO states, which are unfriendly to Russia, are using their absolute majority in the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to continue the destruction of the Council of Europe and the common humanitarian and legal space in Europe.
The events are approaching a point of no return. Russia will not accept the subversive actions being taken by the collective West to replace international law, which the United States and its satellites are trampling underfoot, with a “rules-based order.” Russia will not participate in the campaign being waged by NATO and its obedient EU followers to turn the oldest European organisation into another platform for preaching about Western superiority and for grandstanding. Let them enjoy each other’s company without Russia.
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2022-03-10 09:10:01+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on supplying man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) and anti-tank missile weapons (ATMW) to Ukraine
☝️ The Western countries have begun large-scale shipments to Ukraine of Stinger MANPADS which are used to attack land-based and above-water targets at a distance of up to 8 km and an altitude of up to 3.5 km, as well as other portable systems including Javelins, NLAW and Carl Gustaf ATMWs, which, without exaggeration, are the most sensitive types of weapons.
The people behind these shipments are definitely aware of the growing threat of these high-precision weapons ending up in the hands of terrorists or illegal armed groups, not only in Ukraine, but in Europe as well.
❗️The Western capitals are grossly ignoring a number of international agreements aimed at minimising the risk of MANPADS falling into the hands of terrorist or criminal elements, such as the 2007 UNGA Resolution 62/40 Prevention of the Illicit Transfer and Unauthorised Access To and Use of Man-Portable Air Defence Systems, and Elements for Export Controls of Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) adopted in 2003.
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In this regard, we remind the representatives of the West of the inordinate amounts of money that, in the early 2000s, went into destroying surplus MANPADS in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Macedonia, Cambodia and Nicaragua, which was initiated under the Partnership for Peace programme.
❗️ Clearly, the lessons have not been learned. The current political situation amid the blatant dictatorship of the United States has caused fundamental changes in the basic principles of control over the non-proliferation of particularly sensitive types of weapons that have been promoted by the EU for many years with the unwavering support of like-minded partners from Africa and Latin America, not only within the UN, but also on the platform provided by the international Arms Trade Treaty.
⚡️ Once again, we call on the EU and NATO countries to stop the thoughtless flooding of the unviable Kiev regime with the latest weapons systems in order to avoid the enormous risk to international civilian aviation and other means of transport in Europe and beyond.
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2022-03-10 07:37:43+00:00
🇷🇺🇹🇷 In #Antalya, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov held a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
#RussiaTurkey
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2022-03-10 07:32:41+00:00
❗️ This is how #FakeNews is made. A staged and cynical provocation regarding the maternity ward, aimed at stirring emotions and ignoring facts.
Vladimir Zelensky announced that a Russian air strike was performed on a maternity hospital in Mariupol - an atrocity and that there are babies, their mothers and doctors under wreckage, starting another round of worldwide hysteria.
Truth: The maternity hospital was closed after the Russian special operation had begun in Ukraine. The Azov nationalists told the doctors to get out.
🔸 On March 7 Russian diplomats confirmed at the UN Security Council itself that this particular maternity hospital was turned into an operations base and firing point by Azov batallion Neo-Nazis.
🔸 On March 8, the son of a woman who had worked at the hospital told lenta.ru that “in the last days of February, men in uniforms entered the maternity hospital where his mother worked. They told everyone to get out and established firing points in the building.”
More details in the video 👆
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2022-03-09 17:01:32+00:00
🛑 #FakeNews
⚠️ Fake: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: «There is a danger of radiation leakage at the Chernobyl/Chornobyl nuclear power plant»
❗️Fact: The IAEA sees no critical impact on safety at the Chernobyl/Chornobyl nuclear power plant
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⚠️ Фейк: На Чернобыльской АЭС создана опасность утечки радиации, заявил глава МИД Украины Дмитрий Кулеба
❗️Правда: МАГАТЭ в ответ сделало заявление о том, что «не видит критических нарушений безопасности на Чернобыльской АЭС»
#DebunkingFakes
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2022-03-09 09:27:39+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://youtu.be/btGKu3nb_eA
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-09 07:17:38+00:00
❗️ Briefing by @mod_russia_en spokesperson, Major General Igor Konashenkov
During special military operation, classified documents of the command of the National Guard of Ukraine were acquired by the Russian servicemen. These documents confirm the covert preparation by the Kiev regime of an offensive operation in the Donbass in March 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defence publishes the original secret order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Colonel-General Nikolai Balan, dated January 22, 2022. The order, brought to the command of the National Guard of Ukraine, explains the plan for preparing one of the shock groups for offensive operations in the so-called “Joint Forces Operation” zone in Donbass.
We remember the statements by the leadership of the Kiev regime that there were no plans for an armed seizure of Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics. The originals of the secret military documents of the National Guard of Ukraine clearly prove the falsity of these statements.
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2022-03-08 20:36:38+00:00
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (March 8, 2022, 10:00 p.m.)
▪️ Despite constant disruptions by the Ukrainian side of measures to open humanitarian corridors, and taking into account the humanitarian situation caused by outrages and lawlessness on the part of nationalists, as well as in order to ensure the safety of civilians and foreign citizens:
1⃣ From 10:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 9, 2022, the Russian Federation declares cease-fire and is ready to provide humanitarian corridors:
▪️ from Kiev and adjacent settlements to the Russian Federation through the territory of the Republic of Belarus to Gomel city with delivery by air to the Russian Federation, in the southern direction - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
▪️ from Chernigov through the territory of the Republic of Belarus to Gomel with delivery by air transport to the Russian Federation, in the southern direction - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
▪️ from Sumy by two routes to Poltava and Belgorod - then by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or temporary accommodation, in the southern direction - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
▪️ from Kharkov to the territory of the Russian Federation to Belgorod - then by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or temporary accommodation, to Lvov, Uzhgorod, Ivano-Frankivsk - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
▪️ from Mariupol by two routes to the territory of the Russian Federation to Rostov-on-Don through Novoazovsk and Taganrog cities, to Zaporozhye - in agreement with the Ukrainian side.
▪️ from other settlements - in agreement with the Ukrainian side.
2⃣ This statement should be immediately brought to the Ukrainian side (Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk) proposed to coordinate the specified routes and the start time of humanitarian corridors by 03:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 9, 2022, and to submit written approval of these approaches, including guarantees to ensure security on the declared routes of humanitarian operations by the Ukrainian authorities to the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine by the specified time.
The Ukrainian side have to publish this statement in Ukrainian and Russian languages in Ukrainian media by 03:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 9, 2022.
3⃣ This statement (in Russian and English) should immediately be brought to the attention of the embassies of foreign states, relevant structures of the UN, the OSCE, the ICRC and other international organizations through all available information resources, including the media.
4⃣ The Ukrainian side should also inform, in accordance with the established procedure, about the planned humanitarian operation before 03:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 9, 2022, representatives of the embassies of foreign states, specialized structures of the UN, the OSCE, the ICRC and other international organizations located on the territory of Ukraine, through all available information resources, including Ukrainian media.
5⃣ For the purpose of implementation of measures for the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens along agreed routes during the humanitarian operation, from 09:30 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 9, 2022, organize continuous communication between the Russian and Ukrainian sides for the mutual exchange of information on the preparation and carrying out the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens.
6⃣ This emergency statement is subject to immediate publication and communication to all interested parties through all available information resources, including media.
#MoD #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianCorridor #Russia #Ukraine
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2022-03-08 19:44:58+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇱📞 On March 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett, at the initiative of the Israeli side.
The parties discussed various aspects of the situation with Russia’s special military operation to protect #Donbass.
☝️ Vladimir Putin shared his assessment of the third round of talks between the Russian delegation and representatives from Ukraine held on March 7 in Belarus.
The #President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Israel agreed to continue their dialogue on the matter.
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2022-03-08 19:28:27+00:00
⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on military biological activity in Ukrainian biological laboratories.
💬 We confirm that, during the special military operation in Ukraine, the Kiev regime was found to have been concealing traces of a military biological programme implemented with funding from the United States Department of Defence.
Documentation on the urgent eradication of highly hazardous pathogens of plague, anthrax, rabbit-fever, cholera and other lethal diseases on February 24 was received from employees of Ukrainian biolaboratories. This included an instruction from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the urgent eradication of stored reserves of highly hazardous pathogens sent to all biolaboratories. These materials can be found on the internet portal of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
This documentation is now being thoroughly analysed by specialists of nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops.
❗️ However, even at this point, we can conclude that components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukrainian laboratories in direct proximity to Russian territory.
The urgent eradication of highly hazardous pathogens on February 24 was ordered to prevent exposing a violation of Article I of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (#BTWC) by Ukraine and the United States.
👉 This information proves that the claims we have repeatedly made with regard to the military biological activity of the United States and their allies in the post-Soviet space within the framework of the BTWC were justified. We cannot rule out using the mechanisms in Articles V and VI of the BTWC, pursuant to which the member states shall consult with each other to resolve any issues regarding the purpose of the Convention or the execution of its provisions, and cooperate in any investigation of possible violations of the obligations under the BTWC.
Decisive actions to strengthen the BTWC regime are required to prevent any military biological activity carried out in violation of the BTWC.
• We call for the resumption of work on a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism, something the United States has been blocking since 2001. In this context, we call for the creation of an open-ended group as part of the BTWC, which is in the interests of the overwhelming majority of member states.
• To strengthen the institutional foundation of the Convention we promote initiatives, which have wide international support, to create mobile medical and biological units within the framework of the BTWC (to render assistance if biological weapons are being used and to fight outbreaks of various origins) and to establish a Research Advisory Committee (to analyse scientific and technical achievements and to provide the states with appropriate recommendations).
• In addition, we suggest including information on military biological activities carried out abroad in annual reports provided by the BTWC member states as part of confidence-building measures.
☝️ Only comprehensive steps like these will make it possible to place the military biological activity of the #UnitedStates and their allies in the post-Soviet space, as well as other regions of the world, under close international control and ensure the verifiable compliance of the BTWC member states with their obligations.
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2022-03-08 15:33:14+00:00
🎙 Head of the Russian delegation at Russian-Ukrainian talks Vladimir #Medinsky on the matter of the humanitarian corridors in Ukraine (March 7, 2022), following third round of negotiations.
💬 The Ukrainian forces in the surrounded cities are keeping people as human shields, ignoring orders from Kiev.
Let the people go!
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2022-03-08 12:21:49+00:00
On March 8, Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered 430 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of Donbass & Ukraine.
The cargo includes food, essentials, apparel and household chemicals.
#RussiaHelps
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2022-03-08 10:56:16+00:00
🇷🇺🇪🇺📞 On March 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the European Council Charles Michel.
The parties had a substantive discussion on the humanitarian aspects of the current situation. Vladimir #Putin underscored that the Russian Armed Forces had declared a ceasefire several times so as to evacuate the population along humanitarian corridors.
❗️ However, Ukrainian nationalist battalions prevented this by resorting to violence against civilians and various provocations.
The Russian President urged the #EU to make a real contribution to saving lives, to put pressure on the Kiev authorities and make them respect humanitarian law.
👉 Vladimir Putin also gave an assessment of the negotiations with Kiev representatives and reiterated #Russia’s demands made earlier.
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2022-03-08 10:23:38+00:00
⚡️ Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UNSC briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Excerpts:
💬 The number of victims who got killed by radicals is growing daily, first of all in Kiev. We call on our colleagues in the Council to stick to the humanitarian aspects of the situation in Ukraine. We have had opportunities to give our political assessments to those events.
❗️ Using civilians as a human shield, radicals and neo-Nazis do not let them exit cities even despite humanitarian corridors and ceasefires arranged by the Russian forces. This can be proven by numerous examples.
By our records, 200 thousand civilians are trapped in Mariupol alone and held at gunpoint by the Azov battalion. The humanitarian situation in cities deteriorates rapidly.
👉 It is clear to us that the Kiev regime tries to prevent exit of civilians and foreign citizens to Russia in every way possible, out of fear that once liberated, people will tell everyone the truth.
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2022-03-08 09:37:57+00:00
🇷🇺🇮🇳📞 On March 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi.
The Leaders continued discussing the situation in connection with the special military operation for the protection of #Donbass and, in particular, the evacuation of Indian nationals.
☝️ Vladimir #Putin informed the Indian Prime Minister that the Russian Armed Forces had declared a ceasefire and opened humanitarian corridors in view of the worsening humanitarian situation.
Meanwhile, nationalist formations continue to create obstacles to the peaceful evacuation of civilians, including foreign nationals, from the combat areas by resorting to crude force and various provocations.
🤝 Narendra #Modi expressed readiness to render any assistance possible to achieve an early resolution of the conflict.
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2022-03-07 21:36:29+00:00
⚡️ Statement by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak:
READ in full
Key points:
🔹 Regrettably, we have seen the statement by European politicians on energy issues and calls to dump Russian oil and gas. European officials are once again trying to shift the problems and failures of their own energy policy of recent years onto Russia.
🔹 Russia has been nothing but a reliable partner for many decades. And Gazprom continues to meet its contractual obligations on gas supplies to Europe in full.
🔹 Russia is a major supplier of oil to Europe. Europe consumes about 500 million tonnes of oil, and Russia supplies around 30% of it, that is 150 million tonnes, and 80 million tonnes of petrochemicals on top of that.
🔹 We see our partners, traders, shipping companies, banks and financial institutions coming under enormous pressure. I would like to emphasise that such statements and actions will only roil the market. We have already seen oil prices exceeding $130 per barrel.
🔹 Attempts to kick start discussion of an import ban undermine the foundations of the market, create uncertainty and cause considerable harm to consumers.
🔹 If you want to cut off supplies of energy resources from Russia, go ahead, we are ready for that. We know where will reroute these volumes. The question is – who benefits? And what is the point?
🔹 Various fakes are being hyped alleging that the Russian Armed Forces are attacking Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Russia has absolutely nothing to do with that.
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2022-03-07 21:24:17+00:00
In order to conduct a humanitarian operation:
➡️ 1. From 10:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 8, 2022, the Russian Federation declares cease-fire and is ready to provide humanitarian corridors:
from Kiev and adjacent settlements to the Russian Federation through the territory of the Republic of Belarus to Gomel city with delivery by air to the Russian Federation, in the southern direction - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
from Chernigov through the territory of the Republic of Belarus to Gomel with delivery by air transport to the Russian Federation, in the southern direction - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
from Sumy by two routes to Poltava and to the territory of the Russian Federation to Belgorod - then by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or temporary accommodation, in the southern direction - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
from Kharkov to the territory of the Russian Federation to Belgorod - then by air, rail and road transport to selected destinations or temporary accommodation, to Lvov, Uzhgorod, Ivano-Frankivsk - in agreement with the Ukrainian side;
from Mariupol by two routes to the territory of the Russian Federation to Rostov-on-Don through Novoazovsk and Taganrog cities, to Zaporozhye - in agreement with the Ukrainian side.
➡️ 2. This statement should be immediately brought to the Ukrainian side (Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk) proposed to coordinate the specified routes and the start time of humanitarian corridors by 03:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 8, 2022, and to submit written approval of these approaches, including guarantees to ensure security on the declared routes of humanitarian operations by the Ukrainian authorities to the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine by the specified time.
The Ukrainian side have to publish this statement in Ukrainian and Russian languages in Ukrainian media by 03:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 8, 2022.
➡️ 3. This statement (in Russian and English) should immediately be brought to the attention of the embassies of foreign states, relevant structures of the UN, the OSCE, the ICRC and other international organizations through all available information resources, including the media.
➡️ 4. The Ukrainian side should also inform, in accordance with the established procedure, about the planned humanitarian operation before 03:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 8, 2022, representatives of the embassies of foreign states, specialized structures of the UN, the OSCE, the ICRC and other international organizations located on the territory of Ukraine, through all available information resources, including Ukrainian media.
➡️ 5. For the purpose of implementation of measures for the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens along agreed routes during the humanitarian operation, from 09:30 a.m. (Moscow time) on March 8, 2022, organize continuous communication between the Russian and Ukrainian sides for the mutual exchange of information on the preparation and carrying out the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens.
➡️ 6. This emergency statement is subject to immediate publication and communication to all interested parties through all available information resources, including media.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianCorridor
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2022-03-07 17:48:48+00:00
#Statement by the Embassy on the violation of its territory
On March 7, 2022, 13:30pm, a large truck came over to the gates of the Embassy, pulled back and torn down the gates of the Embassy. The incident took place in the presence of Garda officers, who stood idle.
The Embassy strongly condemns this criminal act of insanity directed against peaceful diplomatic mission.
The Embassy views this incident as a clear and blatant violation of the Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic relations of 1961. The Embassy is in contact with the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, demanding that the Irish authorities take comprehensive measures to ensure the safety of it’s staff and their family members.
The incident is cause of extreme concern. We believe that no people of sound mind could support such senseless and barbaric actions.
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2022-03-07 16:47:18+00:00
What Western mass media will never tell or show you unabridged👇
Today Russia's Defence Ministry has once again organised humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave the cities. And yet again the Ukrainian military & Neo-Nazi militants refuse to let them out, using as human shields and actively blocking them from leaving.
⚡️ Among the many ordinary people de-facto held hostages are foreign students. They complain they are treated harshly by the Ukrainian military and are prevented from leaving the city through humanitarian corridors.
Here is a cry for help by African students' from #Sumy, Ukraine 👇
#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself
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2022-03-06 20:52:27+00:00
#MustWatch
To fully understand the genesis of the current situation in Ukraine, how the rise of Neo-Nazism came to be and how the far-right Russophobic ideology and groups gained power over a brotherly nation one must take a retrospect view.
📣 World renowned filmmaker and actor, Academy award winner Nikita Mikhalkov tells and explains just that, with proven facts and archival footage to show the truth, in an emergency hour-long episode of his author's programme BesogonTV.
The Western mainstream media will never report on these facts, sweeping under the rug anything that damages the current anti-Russian narrative, hoping the audiences have no recollection of the sequence of the events. Watch to jog your memory.
Warning: the video contains sensitive images, viewer discretion advised.
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2022-03-06 19:27:59+00:00
❗️ Russian Defence Ministry: During the course of the special military operation evidence of an emergency clean-up performed by the Kiev regime was found - aimed at eradicating traces of the military-biological programme, in Ukraine, financed by the US Department of Defence.
The pathogens destroyed include anthrax and plague.
👉 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/dyWUEF3tDZGauw
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2022-03-06 15:19:32+00:00
🇷🇺 🇹🇷 📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
❗️Vladimir Putin informed Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the progress of the special military operation to defend Donbass, set forth the underlying approaches and assessments in this context, and outlined the main goals and objectives of the operation. He emphasised that the special operation was proceeding according to plan and within the agreed timeframe.
Russia’s readiness for dialogue with the Ukrainian authorities and with foreign partners to resolve the conflict has been reaffirmed. At the same time, Vladimir Putin underscored the futility of any attempts to drag out the negotiating process, something the Ukrainian security forces are doing to regroup their forces and weapons. In this regard, he emphasised that the special operation can only be suspended if Kiev ceases hostilities and fulfills Russia’s requirements, of which Ukraine is perfectly aware.
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2022-03-06 14:23:20+00:00
Permanent Representative of 🇷🇺 to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich:
🔻Outraged by 🇵🇱 OSCE CiO attempts to politicize the humanit.situation in 🇺🇦. One must not speculate on the lives of civilians. Instead, should demand from Ukr.armed nationalists not to use civilians as a shield. 🇵🇱 seems to overlook their atrocities in Donbass and other regions
🔻We strongly urge the 🇵🇱Polish OSCE CiO and the SG to make full pressure on 🇺🇦Ukrainian authorities so that they stop violating international humanitarian law and not obstruct civilians exit from cities through humanitarian corridors established by 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces
🔻 🇵🇱Polish OSCE CiO must respect the mandate of the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office. CiO can not use confrontational rhetoric. Terminology used by 🇵🇱OSCE CiO Z.Rau after meeting with 🇺🇸US StateSec A.Blinken on 5 March is unacceptable. Accusation by Z.Rau towards Russia put under question his ability to perform duties of OSCE CiO
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2022-03-05 21:37:10+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
The unprecedented stream of #fakenews on what is happening in #Ukraine is designed to stir emotions & shut down one's rational thinking.
A group of experts & journalists have joined forces and are using expertise & common sense to debunk the most egregious ones.
Make sure to check their website (available in English, Spanish, French and Chinese) for a different viewpoint, an alternative to the mainstream media narrative.
Fighting fakes with facts.
👉 https://waronfakes.com
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2022-03-05 19:09:42+00:00
❗️ We have taken notice of an unprecedented level of Russophobia in several foreign countries in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine.
The discrimination campaigns against Russian students, athletes and cultural and arts figures, which are being waged in several states with the connivance or open encouragement of the authorities, have grown into widespread and openly aggressive actions towards Russian and Russian-speaking people.
👉 We would like everyone to know that we are noting all these incidents. Information about them will be forwarded for legal assessment by the competent authorities, and those responsible for them will be called to account in accordance with the effective legislation.
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2022-03-05 15:35:11+00:00
⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman
Ukrainian FM Kuleba: “Russian FM Lavrov spreads disinfo by falsely alleging Ukraine wants to restore its nuclear arsenal. Once again: This is a cynical, blatant lie by Russia who itself fires at nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Safe zones must be established around them to prevent disaster in Europe.”
💬 #Zakharova: Just look at what kind of turncoats they are! Simply read their statements, read what the Ukrainian leadership has been saying publicly. There was also more said, behind the scenes.
This is how it goes:
💬 Secretary of the National Security Council Alexander Turchinov, April 2018:
“With all these events behind us, we can draw a conclusion that few will like. Giving up nuclear weapons was our historical mistake. The security guarantees are not even worth the paper on which they were written.”
💬 Head of the Servant of the People parliamentary group Davyd Arakhamia, July 29, 2021:
“I think that Kravchuk made a fatal mistake by getting rid of nuclear weapons after signing a meaningless memorandum. Basically, this mistake has been haunting us ever since. It dwarfs all the other mistakes by all other presidents. Had we been a nuclear power, everyone would have talked to us and sought to reach agreements in a different manner.”
💬 President Vladimir Zelensky, February 19, 2022:
“Since 2014, Ukraine has made three attempts to convene consultations of guarantor countries under the Budapest Memorandum. All three failed. Today, Ukraine is making its fourth attempt, which is my first attempt as President. Make no mistake, this is the last try for me, and for Ukraine. I am seeking to initiate consultations under the Budapest Memorandum, and instructed the Foreign Minister to convene the them. If they do not take place yet again or do not result in security guarantees for our state, Ukraine will have the right to view the Budapest Memorandum as a dead letter, which calls into question the entire package of decisions adopted in 1994.”
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2022-03-05 13:37:52+00:00
On March 3, 2022, the Foreign Ministers of the Western countries adopted a declaration on the suspension of Russia’s participation in the council’s proceedings, doing this in an unacceptable manner and citing the situation in Ukraine. They have also suspended the participation of Belarus as a CBSS observer state.
❗️ We regard this as a hostile action contradicting the spirit of Baltic cooperation and the legal foundations of the Council. For the past 30 years, the CBSS has reliably promoted practical interaction in the Baltic region, demonstrating strong immunity to political factors. The signatories of the “declaration” have destroyed our mutual achievements and have scorned the principle set out in the statutory documents of the CBSS, according to which decisions within it are taken by consensus.
Regrettably, Russophobic instincts have prevailed in our Baltic neighbours.
☝️ Under these circumstances, we will be forced to revise the future of the CBSS.
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2022-03-05 12:47:48+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
Dissecting Western and Ukrainian #FakeNews on the situation in Ukraine.
Part 2. The elaborate ones
Side by side with easily spottable low-grade misinformation efforts go the more complex schemes on creating an alternative reality. They are presented as hard facts and used by the MSM as a self-referential points to build an anti-Russian narrative.
✅ Always fact-check and #Think4Yourself
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2022-03-05 10:51:04+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan #Kazakbaev hold a joint press-conference following talks in Moscow
https://youtu.be/FpQ700RqVNA
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-05 09:39:39+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan #Kazakbaev commence bilateral talks in Moscow
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-05 09:17:12+00:00
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC meeting on Ukraine
💬 Russian troops gained control over the city of Enerhodar, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and its surrounding area on 28 February. There were negotiations with the management of the ZNPP and an agreement was reached that the power plant would be guarded by the Russian military. At this moment, our troops are protecting the ZNPP and its surrounding area.
Now, when Russian military are doing their best to maintain security at Ukrainian nuclear facilities, a massive anti-Russian propaganda campaign is unfolding. It is based on absurd allegations that Russia allegedly tries to create a source of radiological contamination.
But why would we do that? We know the situation better than anyone else. No one can be more eager than we are to ensure proper level of nuclear safety and security in Ukraine.
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2022-03-04 22:00:36+00:00
🎙 Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov's schedule
🔹 Update on the situation in Ukraine
🔹 Race-based discrimination in Ukraine
🔹 US military biological activities in Ukraine
🔹 Russia-EU
🔹 NATO
🔹 Pakistan
🔹 Western Sanctions against Russia
🔹 China
And more…
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2022-03-04 20:42:50+00:00
📣 From the speech of Alexander Lukashevich "On the crimes of Ukraine against the civilian population and the unacceptable reaction of Western countries to the special military operation of Russia"
The root of today's crisis in Ukraine is not a Russian special military operation. The situation in Donbass and Ukraine is a consequence of NATO desire, led by the United States, to use 🇺🇦 to create real threats to the national security and deter 🇷🇺Russia.
As a result of the criminal decisions of the Kiev regime to release criminals from 🇺🇦 prisons & free distribution of firearms in the cities of Ukraine, 🧨 armed gangs of marauders and robbers are now rampaging, shooting ordinary citizens without ⚠️ warning.
❗️🇷🇺 army does not threaten civilian population in Ukraine, does not shell civilian infrastructure.
An information war has been unleashed against 🇷🇺. The objects destroyed by the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦 and nationalist batalions in the DPR and LPR are presented by the Western media as the consequences of our military operation in Ukraine, replicating fakes about the allegedly indiscriminate 💣 bombing of Ukrainian cities.
During the 💣 of ex. Yugoslavia in 1999 NATO countries hid behind humanitarian causes. So why did. they not express their indignation at the war unleashed by Kiev against the inhabitants of the east 🇺🇦 for 8 years, when residential areas fell under the blows of artillery and multiple rocket launchers?
After the 2014 coup d'état, Western countries only encouraged Kiev to inhuman actions, pumping up the country with weapons, sending military instructors there and pushing them to armed provocations against the defending residents of Donbass, who did not attack 🇺🇦
We consider the statements of a number of NATO countries about new military supplies to Ukraine as a continuation of the irresponsible policy aimed at inciting a military escalation in the country 🇺🇦
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2022-03-04 17:55:15+00:00
#DebunkingFakes
Dissecting Western and Ukrainian #FakeNews on the situation in Ukraine.
Part 1. The simple ones
These low-grade efforts to imprint a line of thought on mass audiences is designed to trigger emotions, hoping one would not pose any questions.
✅ Always fact-check and #Think4Yourself
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2022-03-04 15:37:58+00:00
The sky above the Russian MFA today Ⓩ
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2022-03-04 14:27:13+00:00
🇷🇺🇸🇦📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.
During the conversation, it was noted with satisfaction that OPEC+ member countries are consistently fulfilling their obligations to help ensure stability on the global oil market. Russia and Saudi Arabia will continue to coordinate approaches within this format.
Considering the anti-Russia sanctions introduced by a number of Western countries, Vladimir Putin emphasised that it is unacceptable to politicise issues related to global energy supply and outlined the Russian side’s approaches in the context of the special military operation to protect Donbass.
Mutual interest was expressed in further comprehensive development of the mutually beneficial Russian-Saudi partnership. The leaders agreed to maintain contacts at various levels.
#RussiaSaudiArabia
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2022-03-03 21:12:40+00:00
🇷🇺🇫🇷 📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of France Emmanuel Macron.
☝️ Vladimir Putin commented in detail on President Macron’s Address to the Nation on the Ukraine War, which he delivered yesterday, disputing many of the points. Thus, Emmanuel Macron described Russia’s statements about fighting Nazism in Ukraine as “lies.” In this connection, the President of Russia provided a well-corroborated explanation regarding the neo-Nazis’ substantial role in the state policy of Kiev. He pointed out that during the special operation to defend Donbass, Russia intends to continue its uncompromising struggle against the militants of the nationalist armed units, who are committing military crimes, including by deploying military equipment in residential areas and using civilians as human shields.
❗️ The President of Russia noted that Emmanuel Macron had not mentioned in his address that the Ukrainian leadership had sabotaged the Minsk agreements for the past seven years.
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2022-03-03 17:53:52+00:00
🇧🇬🇷🇺 Today Bulgaria celebrates the Day of Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Dominion. Congratulations!
We appreciate the careful attitude of Bulgarians to the memory of Russian diplomats & officers who contributed to the Bulgarian statehood.
👉 Learn more
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2022-03-03 16:14:38+00:00
📄 Read this independent report "The Online Environment as a Tool for Violation of Rights and Freedoms in Ukraine" by the Irina Berezhnaya Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection.
The document focuses on violations of human rights & freedoms in Ukraine in the recent years, gives a glimpse into what has been really going on in the country. Nearly always ignored by the mainstream Western media.
The main topics covered:
▪️ Digital totalitarianism
▪️ Online discrimination
▪️ Inter-ethnic intolerance
▪️ Manifestations of anti-Semitism
▪️ Propaganda of Nazi ideology
▪️ Religious discrimination
▪️ Discrimination against the Russian-speaking citizens
During all these years, regrettably, Western countries have turned a blind eye to Ukraine’s disregard for human rights. They preferred to avoid an honest conversation refused to even notice numerous offenses & acts of discrimination.
☝️ We shall continue to raise awareness on this outrageous situation, which has considerably deteriorated over past 8 years.
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2022-03-03 13:35:15+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSViOPlBDiQ
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video
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2022-03-03 09:14:15+00:00
🔴 #LIVE: FM Sergey Lavrov's interview with Russian and foreign media on topical foreign policy matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEnSlST_2c
https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/
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2022-03-03 08:13:27+00:00
#Announcement 📅 On March 3 at 12.00 MSK FM Sergey Lavrov will give an interview to Russian and foreign media on the current international agenda.
Online broadcasting on the Internet will be carried out on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the "Video" section in Russian and English, on our official accounts in social networks, as well as on the TV channels "RT" and "Russia-24".
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2022-03-03 07:05:47+00:00
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Al-Jazeera TV channel, Moscow, March 2, 2022
Major topics:
🔹 Ukraine after 2014
🔹 #RussiaNATO relations
🔹 Special military operation in Ukraine
🔹 Ukraine and nuclear weapons
🔹 #NordStream2
🔹 Western #sanctions
🔹 Russia's position in negotiations with Ukraine
🔹 Prospects for conflict settlement
👉 https://is.gd/IKkafa
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2022-03-02 13:12:08+00:00
❕At today's meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on the safety, security and safeguards implications of the situation in Ukraine, Canada and Poland tried to get a crude and unprofessional draft resolution adopted before the substantive discussion began. The sound forces in the Board managed to ward off this attempt. It is gratifying that a professional approach has prevailed!
❗️На сегодняшнем заседании Совета управляющих МАГАТЭ по вопросам ядерной безопасности, ФЯБ и гарантий на Украине канадцы и поляки попытались добиться принятия подготовленного ими сырого и непрофессионального проекта резолюции до начала субстантивной дискуссии. Здравым силам в Совете удалось отвести эту попытку. Отрадно, что профессиональный подход возобладал!
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2022-03-02 12:14:56+00:00
☝️ Everything that happened in Ukraine after the bloody coup of 2014 can only be described as endless political chaos, lawlessness and rampant ultra-nationalism.
▪️ The scale and frequency of neo-Nazi acts in the country are growing and becoming more aggressive in nature. The followers of the Nazi ideology feel total impunity and even support from the authorities.
▪️ An integral part of the official Kiev’s policy regarding ethnic minorities, their forceful Ukrainisation, is how they discriminate against a considerable part of the population in terms of language, including the gross violation of the Russian-speaking community’s rights.
🕯 According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report ~14'000 people were killed during the conflict in Donbass, including 152 children...
👉 The Truth Behind Events in Ukraine and Donbass (2014 - 2022): https://bit.ly/3MzhgZj
#See4Yourself #DonbassTragedy
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2022-03-02 10:00:43+00:00
A source in the Foreign Ministry told TASS news agency what the staff thinks about Andrey Kozyrev’s proposal to surrender.
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“Kozyrev knows from his personal experience what he is talking about when calling on diplomats to surrender and sell out. Working with him has always been a disgrace for our colleagues. No one understood why this person got appointed to head the Foreign Ministry in the first place. After his removal from this office, he has never been invited, even once, to any working meeting or celebration at the Foreign Ministry attended by the country’s foreign ministers – Primakov, Ivanov, or Lavrov.
In the 20 years of marking Diplomats’ Day, the Foreign Ministry and its staff have never sent their greetings to Kozyrev. In the ministry, his name is synonymous with giving ground and surrendering Russia’s positions. There is also the term “Kozyrevshchina” in the diplomatic jargon, which stands for betrayal.
Kozyrev said that he used to be proud of the colleagues he had worked with. He forgot to add that they never returned these feelings. When Yevgeny Primakov became Foreign Minister, the ministry was in a disastrous state. It is only thanks to the professional team that took on this job that the ministry stayed afloat and avoided a total breakdown.
It was also Kozyrev who famously said that Russia did not have national interests of its own. This is what he said in reply to former President of the United States Richard Nixon’s question. During that conversation, Kozyrev went as far as ask whether the United States had any advice for Russia on how to proceed in its foreign policy. Nixon went dumb and just shook his head. Former US Ambassador Michael McFaul, an outspoken Russophobe, has prefaced Kozyrev’s books. Kozyrev has been living abroad for a long time now, as long as he has been engaged in anti-Russian subversion. He has already received his thirty pieces of silver, and even earned interest on them.
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2022-03-02 07:08:48+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the expulsion of diplomats from Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN
💬 We regard the expulsion of 12 diplomats from the Russian Permanent Mission in New York as a deliberate and cynical escalation in Russia-US relations provoked by Washington in violation of US obligations under the corresponding agreement with the host country.
The Biden administration is continuing a policy that seeks not only to completely destroy the foundations of interstate relations, but also to undermine the central role of the #UN in an attempt to impose the notorious “rules-based order” dictated by the United States and its satellites. The purpose of the unfolding developments and the timing of this utterly hostile action are clear to us and are supposed to increase pressure, blackmail and intimidation in order to weaken our position and deprive us of the opportunity to be fully functional on the UN platform.
👉 Dirty tricks by the Americans do not come as news to anyone. Losing again and again on the diplomatic field, #Washington seeks revenge by abusing its position as the country on whose territory the UN headquarters happens to be located.
In view of what has occurred, there can be no more place for excuses and delays in immediately launching an official arbitration procedure between the United Nations and the United States in connection with their flagrant violations of the United Nations Headquarters Agreement. We remind the UN Secretary General of this again.
❗️ With regard to the expulsion of Russian diplomats, it will not remain without a proper response which will not be necessarily symmetrical. Our advice to decision-makers in Washington is to think about the consequences of their destructive policy.
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2022-03-01 20:48:51+00:00
👉 The Truth Behind Events in Ukraine and Donbass (2014 - 2022)
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/uH_8iwNnpDvT5Q
https://bit.ly/3MzhgZj
#See4Yourself #DonbassTragedy
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2022-03-01 20:27:59+00:00
⚡️ Maria #Zakharova:
The #EuropeanUnion has not gone as far as barring the Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov from travelling as a diplomat; there can be exemptions from EU sanctions. This is what the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said on Monday in response to a question from a journalist on whether the EU sanctions prevent the Russian Minister from travelling to Geneva.
❗️ But they did go too far. They are lying and scrambling to get away with it.
Russia prepared two routes which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his delegation could take to attend meetings of the Conference on Disarmament and the UN Human Rights Council at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
👉 #Poland and #Estonia denied them passage, and the UN Secretariat knew this. Both countries cited EU sanctions.
Mr Borrell, what betrays the doublespeak in your position is that when Sergey Lavrov asked countries in their national capacity to express their positions on security matters, which are critical to us, you answered for all EU member states, although no one asked you or the EU as an organisation to do so. You even provided a lengthy explanation to demonstrate that the EU has a “collective position” based on the majority opinion.
But when the same countries denied the delegation passage for attending UN events in Geneva on the basis of the EU restrictions that you have announced, you said that it is their sovereign right 🤷♂️
Doublespeak from a doublespeaker.
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2022-03-01 15:06:39+00:00
⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the EU’s role in the developments in Ukraine
☝️ For many years, the European Union, posing as a peacemaker, lavishly financed the Kiev regime, which came to power in an anti-constitutional coup. The EU stood in silence while the population of Donbass was being exterminated and the Russian language was being strangled in Ukraine. It disregarded our endless calls to take notice of the predominance of Nazis in the Ukrainian authorities, and the socioeconomic blockade and murder of innocent civilians in the southeast of Ukraine. The EU conditioned its future relations with Russia on the implementation of the Minsk Package of Measures but has done nothing to encourage Kiev to start implementing its main provisions. At the same time, the EU gave Kiev money and visa-free travel and extended anti-Russia sanctions under far-fetched pretexts. The EU took part in Kiev’s performances, which put in question the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.
Masks have now come off. The February 27 decision to send lethal weapons to the Ukrainian militarists is self-exposing. It has marked the end of Euro-integration as a “pacifist” project allegedly launched to reconcile European nations after WWII. The EU has irrevocably taken the side of the Kiev regime, which waged a policy of genocide against part of its own population.
Unbeknownst to themselves, the Brussels officials started using Orwell’s newspeak. They have announced the intention to “invest” in the war launched in Ukraine in 2014 through a mechanism with a self-explanatory name, the Europe Peace Foundation. The EU leadership unashamedly describes missiles, small arms, munitions and even combat aircraft as “defensive” systems.
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The EU citizens and agencies involved in the delivery of lethal weapons, fuel and lubricants to the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be held responsible for any consequences of these actions during the ongoing special military operation. They should be aware of the severity of these consequences.
Another myth that has been exposed is the EU’s claim that its unilateral restrictions, which are incompatible with international law, are not directed against the Russian people. The Brussels officials, who only recently posed as a “strategic partner” of Russia, are saying openly that they intend to inflict the maximum possible damage on Russia, hit its weak spots, batter the Russian economy and “suppress Russia’s economic growth.”
❗️ We are sure that this is not going to work. We will provide a tough response to the EU’s actions. Russia will continue to ensure the implementation of its vital national interests, notwithstanding the sanctions or threats of sanctions. The Western countries should wake up to the fact that the days of their undivided rule in the global economy are long gone.
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2022-03-01 15:00:59+00:00
🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the high-level segment of the Conference on Disarmament, March 1, 2022
💬 Today, the dangers that the Zelensky regime poses to neighbouring countries and international security in general have increased significantly after the Kiev authorities started dangerous games involving plans to obtain their own nuclear weapons.
Rest assured that as a responsible member of the international community Russia is committed to its non-proliferation pledge, and is taking every necessary measure to prevent the emergence of nuclear weapons and related technology in Ukraine.
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2022-03-01 11:12:53+00:00
🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the situation with the Council of the Baltic Sea States
💬 On February 27, the Norwegian Presidency in the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) released a statement saying that continuing fair and trust-based cooperation in the Baltic was impossible due to “Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine,” and cancelled the meeting of the CBSS Committee of Senior Officials, the council’s main working body, which was scheduled to take place on February 28.
The Foreign Ministry cannot agree less with these assertions. What has happened resulted from the eight years during which the Ukrainian regime sabotaged the Minsk agreements, while civilians in Donbass continued to die at the hands of the Ukrainian army.
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We call for heeding common sense. Drumming up anti-Russia hysteria and politicising the CBSS work, just like other regional Nordic cooperation frameworks, leads nowhere.
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2022-03-01 10:45:12+00:00
❗️ War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Ukrainian Military-Political Leadership in Donbass
🔎 An online exhibition depicting the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Ukrainian military-political leadership in Donbass. Materials used in the exhibition were provided by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Russia Today, representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic.
⚠️ Warning! Viewer discretion is strongly advised! The contents of these materials are extremely graphic! But so was the life for the citizens of Donbass over the last 8 years...
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