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🚀Космодром Восточный в Амурской области стал одним из самых масштабных проектов России ХХI века.
С 28 апреля 2016 года по 29 февраля 2024 года с космодрома Восточный выполнены 16 орбитальных пусков ракет-носителей, на околоземные орбиты и отлетные траектории выведены 364 космических аппарата.
🇷🇺Самое главное, что получит российская космическая отрасль, когда Восточный запустят в полную силу, это современный универсальный космодром на собственной территории.
👉Подробнее о космодроме Восточный: https://www.roscosmos.ru/255/
📸 космодром Восточный, снимок сделан российским спутником дистанционного зондирования Земли
🚀Vostotjnyjrymdbasen i Amurregionen har blivit ett av Rysslands mest ambitiösa projekt under 2000-talet.
Mellan den 28 april 2016 och den 29 februari 2024 gjordes 16 uppskjutningar av bärraketer från Vostotjnyj, 364 rymdfarkoster fördes upp till jordnära omlopps- och paraboliska banor.
🇷🇺Den viktigaste fördelen med Vostotjnyj för den ryska rymdbranschen är att Ryssland kommer att få en modern universalrymdbas på sitt eget territorium så fort den till fullo sätts i kraft.
👉Läs mer om Vostotjnyjrymdbasen: https://www.roscosmos.ru/255/
📸 Vostotjnyjrymdbasen. Bilden tagen av en rysk satellit för fjärranalys.
🇷🇺11 апреля в Посольстве России в Стокгольме состоялся торжественный прием, посвященный Дню космонавтики и 90-летию со дня рождения Ю.А.Гагарина 9 марта 1934 г.
💬Посол России в Швеции В.И.Татаринцев в своей приветственной речи подчеркнул, что для России и наших соотечественников День космонавтики — это памятная дата для особой гордости, символ мощи нашего государства. Подвиг Ю.А.Гагарина подтвердил способность нашего народа эффективно решать самые сложные и ответственные задачи. 12 апреля – это не просто день первого пилотируемого полета в космос, это день, когда миллиарды людей по всему миру поверили в невозможное. Когда человечество в один миг осознало, что его потенциал безграничен.
🤝Для наших гостей из стран, входивших в состав СССР, данное эпохальное событие по праву является частью и их отечественной истории. Для других стран, чьи представители были приглашены на приём в роспосольстве, полёт Ю.А.Гагарина дал небывалый стимул в развитии национальной космической науки, помог взрастить собственных героев, покоривших космические просторы во славу своей Родины, для всех остальных — дал дорогу к новым знаниям и открытиям.
К участникам приёма с видеоприветствием обратился Герой Российской Федерации, летчик-космонавт С.Н.Рязанский. Были показаны короткометражные фильмы об историческом полете Ю.А.Гагарина в космос и успехах российской космической отрасли.
🎙️Перед гостями выступила музыкальная группа Посольства «Сны Севера».
Была представлена тематическая выставка, подготовленная при содействии ГК «Роскосмос».
12 апреля ученикам школы при Посольстве продемонстрирован ряд фильмов, посвященных ключевым моментам в освоении космоса.
🚀 On April 12, 1961, at 09:07 Moscow time, the Vostok spacecraft with pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, marking the beginning of the space age in the history of mankind.
Yuri Gagarin spent 108 minutes in space, making a complete orbit around the Earth, and successfully landed near the village of Smelovka in the Saratov Region.
While in orbit, he maintained radio contact with Earth, made observations through a porthole, controlled the operation of the ship's systems, and carried out simple experiments.
📰 The news about Yuri's flight came out only 55 minutes after the launch of the Vostok rocket, becoming the most quoted report in the world. Overnight, the Soviet citizen became the most famous man on Earth.
Two days later, many thousands of people with flowers and welcome posters took to the streets of Moscow, honouring the cosmonaut who had arrived in the capital. At the end of April, our compatriot went on a foreign tour, travelling through more than 30 countries in two years, where he was welcomed as a hero.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: For billions of people around the world, Yuri Gagarin continues to serve as an example of heroism and selflessness, inspiring them to overcome any obstacles in pursuit of the most ambitious and noble goals (Minister's video message on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight).
Gagarin's flight embodied the triumph of Soviet science and technology and was of crucial importance for further development of space exploration and the mankind.
🌐 In 1968, the 61st General Conference of the International Aviation Federation decided to celebrate April 12 as the World Day of Aviation and Astronautics, and in 2011, at the initiative of Russia, the UN General Assembly proclaimed April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight.
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❗️The terrible tragedy caused by a heinous terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on March 22, 2024, has shocked Russia and the international community. It has also put the issue of large-scale public terror back on the agenda <...>.
The majority of countries worldwide demonstrated a natural human reaction to the tragedy, sending words of support and condolences to Russia and the Russian people.
At the same time, several hours after the tragedy, before the preliminary results of the investigation were made public and disregarding the unequivocal international condemnation of the attack, the Western media and US, UK and EU officials launched an information campaign to deny the Ukrainian security services’ involvement in that crime.
🗞 The editorial offices of the mainstream Western media were instructed to promote the version of the ISIS (forbidden in Russia) involvement in organising the attack in Krasnogorsk, to deny the possible connection between the Islamists and the Ukrainian government or Western security services, to discredit the results of investigation, and to advance various conspiracy theories about the alleged involvement of the Russian security services in the tragedy.
They were cautioned against showing sympathy and a humane attitude to the Russian people. An especially cynical part of the Western attempts to divert public attention from the real organisers and beneficiaries of the crime was the categorical instruction not to mention the real scale of the tragedy. <...>
☝️ However, the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack is far from the first terrorist attack on Russia in the recent past.
Detailed desription of the committed [2022, 2023 (1, 2), 2024] and foiled [2022, 2023 (1, 2, 3), 2024] terrorist attacks
All the facts regarding this barbaric terrorist attack will be thoroughly investigated. The masterminds, organisers, and accomplices, regardless of their whereabouts, will be identified, unmasked and will receive just punishment.
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⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on yet another attack on Russian journalists by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
💬 On April 10, Ukrainian armed units shelled the film crew of Vesti Lugansk (a regional affiliate of VGTRK). They were making a TV report in the area of the city of Kremennaya in the Lugansk People’s Republic. As a result of precision fire from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, film crew camera operator Denis Shum was wounded in a leg, while correspondent Artyom Yundas got a concussion. Moreover, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued attacking the wounded journalists by drones.
At present, Denis Shum and Artyom Yundas are receiving required medical assistance.
👉 We qualify this incident as yet another crime by the Zelensky regime. It continues looking at domestic journalists and military correspondents as priority targets for fire and is even openly bragging about it. Ukrainian militants attack civilians – unarmed correspondents, photographers and camera operators.
Representatives of the Russian media are being hunted down with all possible means of destruction in violation of all international humanitarian norms. They are using terrorist methods of removal to implement their criminal plans with tacit approval of Ukraine’s Western curators and biased human rights structures.
▪️ Let’s recall that in the past two years, the Kiev regime cruelly murdered the following journalists: Darya Dugina (Platonova), Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin), Rostislav Zhuravlev and Boris Maksudov.
❗️We demand that relevant international structures resolutely denounce such actions and adopt proper response measures to the ongoing series of terrorist attacks by the Kiev clique and its agents against representatives of the domestic media.
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the embassy roundtable discussion of a settlement in Ukraine (Moscow, January 30, 2024)
💬 The Ukraine crisis is a test for the emerging multipolar world order, for the global majority, which is coming to the realisation that exclusive reliance on the mechanisms of international relations created by the collective West has no prospects.
• Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, now a consultant or adviser for the Vladimir Zelensky team, said recently that the West viewed Ukraine as a “defensive wall” in front of Russia. According to this mindset, everything that is linked with Ukraine must be used to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
✍️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch, later sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials, wrote, “Ukraine is merely an object of exploitation for us. It should pay for the expenses of the war, and its population to a certain extent should be utilised as second-rate people for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.” Doesn’t this remind you of anything❓
• In less than two years, the West has allocated over $200 billion to Ukraine to support its military programme and to shore up the budget of this totally insolvent country. To put this in perspective, the EU has appropriated less than 80 billion euros to be disbursed within seven years to provide socioeconomic support for the Global South and the Global East.
• Washington is forcing EU countries to send everything they have to Ukraine for next to nothing. The countries that do this are replenishing their arsenals with US-made weapons they buy at full price.
❗️ Weapons are spreading around the world. The Kiev regime has been famous for its efforts to seize every opportunity to make a profit, even if it deals in trading death.
🇷🇺 Investigative Committee of Russia:
⚡️ Investigators identify the weapons system used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to down the Il-76 plane in the Belgorod Region
The Investigative Committee is continuing its investigation of a criminal case following a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the sky over the Belgorod Region.
It has been established that the service personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces using two missiles launched by a surface-to-air system from Liptsy, Kharkov Region, Ukraine.
The site is located 1.8 kilometres to the northeast and 4.8 kilometres to the southeast of the presumed impact site. The inspection helped identify 116 fragments belonging to the fuselage and mechanisms of the two missiles. They had English-language inscriptions and markings on them.
The following markings were found on the discovered fragments: ASSY 11455748, SN740179, ASSY 1146134», SN740206, ASSY 11461865, SN740207, Raytheon, CONFIDENTIAL classified by PATRIOT SECURITY CLASSIFICATION GUIDE DATED: 9/22/83 ADDENDA DATED 11/28/83 8/8/84 CONTRACT NO/DAAH01-86C-A018, as well as 18876 ASSY, MARTIN MARIETA and 10253043-39 02 S/N 80025.
The investigators used ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), gas-phase chromatography with mass spectrometric detection and high-performance liquid chromatography in selected ion mode to conduct a wipe analysis, which revealed traces of hexogen with up to 10 percent content of octogen, which is typical for foreign-made explosives.
These tests led to the conclusion that judging by their engineering features, geometry and markings the fragments from the crash site belong to the MIM-104A surface-to-air missile from the Patriot, a US launcher, developed by Raytheon and Hughes corporations and manufactured by Raytheon.
🎞️This video from last year is yet another example of the crimes committed by the Kiev regime.
Sadly, there are much more. The book of the Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy Maxim Grigoriev 'Ukraine's Crimes Against Humanity (2022-2023)' contains more than 600 testimonies of victims and eyewitnesses of Ukrainian war crimes and terrorist acts against civilians, committed between 2022 and 2023.
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🕯 В день 80-летия полного освобождения Ленинграда от фашистской блокады В.В.Путин принимает участие в памятных мероприятиях, приуроченных к годовщине.
Президент России возложил цветы к памятнику «Рубежный камень» на военно-историческом комплексе «Невский пятачок». С первых дней блокады бойцы Красной армии сдерживали в этом месте – небольшом трёхкилометровом участке фронта к югу от Ленинграда – численно превосходящие их силы противника, не позволяя нацистам и их союзникам приблизиться к городу.
Глава государства посетил Пискарёвское мемориальное кладбище, где почтил память погибших ленинградцев и защитников города, возложив венок к монументу «Мать-Родина». В братских могилах на Пискаревке покоятся около полумиллиона человек. На мемориальной стене за спиной «Матери-Родины» высечены слова поэтессы Ольги Берггольц: «Никто не забыт и ничто не забыто».
Ленинград – единственный в мировой истории город с многомиллионным населением, который смог выдержать почти 900-дневное окружение. Его осада войсками нацистской Германии длилась 872 дня: с 8 сентября 1941 года по 27 января 1944 года. Кольцо было прорвано 18 января 1943 года, а 27 января 1944 года дан торжественный салют в ознаменование окончания блокады.
К этому времени в Северной столице осталось не более 800 тысяч жителей из трёх миллионов, проживавших в Ленинграде и его пригородах до начала окружения.
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💬Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman M.#Zakharova:
The Steadfast Defender 2024 military drills amounts to an overt provocation, with a 90,000-strong force from NATO member countries and Sweden operating near Russian borders.
⚠️ This raises the risk of incidents and could lead to tragic consequences for Europe.
🎞️ Documentary «Donbass Volunteers: United Strength» by «RT Doc»
Thousands of volunteers across the country unite to support the participants of the special military operation
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⚡️ В Киеве прекрасно знали, как и каким маршрутом будут доставляться военнопленные. Атака на самолёт Ил-76 была преднамеренной и осознанной акцией.
Совершённый теракт наглядно демонстрирует недоговороспособность киевского режима.
🔗 Полностью: /channel/MID_Russia/34373
🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with CBS TV channel (New York, January 22, 2024)
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💬 Anybody who is sincerely interested in justice, including justice being established in the relations between Russia and Ukraine, which would involve, of course, stopping the Western policy of using Ukraine as an instrument of war against Russia, we would be ready to listen.
• We are fighting for our national legitimate interests, for the interests of the security of our country. It’s just on our borders, not as Iraq was announced a threat to the United States, it's 10,000 miles from American shores. <...> In our case, it was not across the ocean, it was just on our borders that NATO military infrastructure was built, aimed at the Russian Federation.
• Whenever you talk to the United States and they mention democracy, you tell them, okay, democracy as you understand is that you dictate to each and every country what kind of political system they must have inside. What about democracy in international relations? They're not interested at all.
• Ukrainian Army with American, French, British, Czech Republic weapons, in the past few weeks continued to deliberately target civilian aims, destroyed dozens of civilian sites, and killed dozens of civilians, including kids and women. <...> I am sure that objective media outlets like CBS would not just leave this unnoticed.
• Unless we insist on the creation of the Palestinian state on the basis of the United Nations decisions, this anger which has been present in Palestinian lives for decades and generation after generation, would reproduce more generations who would feel that they have been abandoned and they have been cheated upon.
• We certainly have to raise our voice not to allow pushing out Palestinians from their land and of course not to allow this land to turn into unlivable space.
🗓️ 4 октября 1957 г. СССР был запущен первый в мире искусственный спутник Земли.
🚀 12 апреля 1961 г. Юрий Гагарин стал первым человеком в космосе.
🇷🇺 Сегодня Россия продолжает освоение космоса: о достижениях в этой сфере мы бы хотели рассказать подробнее.
📸Северное полушарие Земли. Снимок сделан российским спутником «Арктика-М»
🗓️Den 4 oktober 1957 sköt Sovjetunionen upp världens första artificiella satellit — Sputnik 1.
🚀Den 12 april 1961 blev Jurij Gagarin den första människan i rymden.
🇷🇺Idag fortsätter Ryssland rymdforskning. Vi skulle vilja berätta lite mer om Rysslands framsteg inom detta område.
📸Jordens norra halvklot. Bilden tagen av den ryska satelliten Arktika-M
О торжественных мероприятиях в Посольстве России в Швеции в честь Дня космонавтики и 90-летия со дня рождения Ю.А.Гагарина
🗓️12 апреля 1961 г. с космодрома Байконур стартовал космический корабль «Восток-1» с пилотом-космонавтом Юрием Гагариным (1934-1968) на борту и совершил один оборот вокруг Земли. Первый в истории полет в космосе продлился 108 минут.
Весь мир облетела ставшая знаменитой фраза первого космонавта: «Поехали!».
🇸🇪Весной 1964 г. Ю.А.Гагарин посетил и Швецию. В Стокгольме его встречала многочисленная толпа шведских граждан, желавших воочию увидеть героя. В ходе своей поездки Ю.А.Гагарин был принят королем Швеции Густавом VI Адольфом, посетил финальный хоккейный матч шведской лиги, давал пресс-конференции, общался со студентами.
С тех пор космонавты из более чем 40 стран мира побывали на земной орбите. Многие из них были доставлены в космос советскими, а впоследствии российскими пилотируемыми кораблями «Союз».
В 2011 г. в ходе заседания Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН была принята резолюция, официально провозгласившая 12 апреля Международным днем первого полета человека в космос. Эта дата навсегда останется особенной, олицетворяющей триумф науки и потенциал человеческого интеллекта, помноженного на напряженный труд специалистов космической отрасли.
🗓 On April 12, 2024, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will take part in the 7th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia and Central Asia Countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), to be held in Minsk on the sidelines of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council Meeting.
The meeting participants will discuss the implementation of agreements reached following the 1st Russia – Central Asia Summit on October 14, 2022, in Astana.
There are plans to exchange views on key international and regional issues. The Ministers will also conduct a separate discussion of environmental issues and prospects for cooperation in this important sphere.
Ukrainian security services has long ago adopted terrorism as a their working tool, aimed, among other things, at increasing global confrontation. Since 2016, the Ukrainian regime has been consistently increasing the attempts to commit terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage against military and civilian sites in Russia.
When the special military operation began, the Ukrainian special services’ terrorist activity has taken on an unprecedented nature.
The attacks target the railway network and infrastructure using unmanned aircraft in the border areas and deep in the country.
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❗️ The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Defence Ministry and the Security Service of Ukraine are behind the acts of sabotage.
The strategic objective of said acts is to inflict a military-political defeat on Russia, as well as maximum economic losses.
⚠️ The barbaric murders of Russian journalists Darya Dugina and Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), and Prosecutor-General of the Lugansk People’s Republic Sergey Gorenko served the same purposes. This also includes attempts on the lives of writer Zakhar Prilepin, the heads of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions Yevgeny Balitsky and Vladimir Saldo, Interior Minister of the Lugansk People’s Republic Igor Kornet and First Deputy Head of the Kherson Region Vitaly Bulyuk.
👉 Considering the methods used at the level of official government bodies, the Kiev regime and the Ukrainian security services display the attributes of a terrorist entity at the government level, which is above and beyond humanistic concepts of what the state and society are all about. In fact, we are witnessing the creation of an aggressive ISIS-like terrorist regime, with the direct participation of the United States and a US-controlled pack of cronies, in the centre of Europe.
📂 LEARN MORE ABOUT COMMITTED [2022, 2023 (1,2), 2024] AND FOILED [2022, 2023 (1, 2, 3), 2024] TERRORIST ATTACKS
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman M.#Zakharova:
💬 Kiev launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation in Donbass nearly 10 years ago.
In fact, it was a civil war, which Kiev unleashed in the southeast of Ukraine, where people had only one demand: respect for their legitimate right to speak their native language.
🏅 #OTD in 1943 one of the largest and fiercest battles in history, which radically changed the course of World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad was concluded.
This bitter battle lasted 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ days on the banks of the Don and Volga rivers, at the walls of Stalingrad, and finally in the city itself. The Battle for Stalingrad surpassed all previous battles in world history in its scale and intensity.
Up to 2.1 million people took part in the battle on both sides at a given time.
By late June, 1942, the enemy had concentrated at a front some 600–650 kilometres long from Kursk to Taganrog up to 35 percent of the infantry and over 50 percent of the tank and motorised divisions from the overall number of forces on the Soviet-German front.
☝️ However, their plans to win because of significant forces in this area were not destined to come true.
The Battle of Stalingrad includes two periods:
Defensive: from July 17 to November 18, 1942
Offensive: from November 19, 1942 to February 2, 1943.
There were no long pauses or lulls in the battle - the fighting was continuous. Stalingrad for the Nazi was a kind of "mill", which grinded thousands of German soldiers and officers.
The invaders lost a quarter of its forces on the Soviet-German front during this battle with the total losses, including the dead and wounded, prisoners of war and those who went missing, totalling around 1.5 million people. This led Germany to announce its first national day of mourning during the war.
🎖 The Battle of Stalingrad ended with a historic victory by the Soviet armed forces, marking a radical turn not only in the course of the Great Patriotic War, but also in the entire World War II.
The victory in Stalingrad created conditions enabling Soviet forces to mount a large-scale counteroffensive aimed at expelling the invaders from the Motherland.
☝️ Not only did this massive feat increase the international prestige of the USSR & the Red Army, but also helped strengthen the anti-Hitler coalition.
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❗️The second issue of the Bulletin on the activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights to protect children during a special military operation (SMO) is available at the official web-site of he Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Right in seven languages:
🇷🇺 Russian;
🇬🇧 English;
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan;
🇦🇲 Armenian;
🇪🇸 Spanish;
🇨🇳 Chinese;
🇫🇷 French.
The document contains information about activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the realization of the rights and interests of minors affected by the military actions.
💬 It doesn’t matter where or in what status a child is in Russia, in an orphanage, in a foster family, whether he or she has Russian citizenship or not. If he has a parent with full parental rights, the family has every opportunity to be reunited.
💬 Since the beginning of the SMO, representatives of Ukrainian authorities have not officially contacted the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. It should be noted that Maria Lvova-Belova is open to interaction with the Ukrainian side, and if official requests were received, they would be considered.
💬 It is important to understand that the territories of the DPR and LPR have been shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for many years, and most orphaned children from social institutions in the republic are aware of this. Children do not perceive Russia as an enemy and expect protection and help from us, so being placed in safe territory with Russian foster families is not a traumatic circumstance for them.
*The first Bulletin was presented on April 4, 2023.
⚡️ Международный Суд ООН вынес решение по инициированному Украиной разбирательству с Россией на основании Международной конвенции о борьбе с финансированием терроризма.
Суд ОТКЛОНИЛ практически все требования Украины и оставил её без компенсации.
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💬Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman M.#Zakharova:
There is growing concern in the US regarding the widespread corruption and rampant theft in Ukraine.
☝️Meanwhile, the EU hypocritically glosses over the fact of the widespread corruption of the Kiev regime.
💬 President #Putin: We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the #NurembergTrials are being revised. Some countries not only rewrite history: neo-Nazis have embraced the ideology & methods of Hitlerites
❗️ We will do everything in our power to eradicate Nazism
🗓️ 27 января 1944 - День полного освобождения Ленинграда от фашистской блокады
Блокада Ленинграда - одна из самых трагичных и героических глав в истории человечества. Ленинградцы выстояли 900 дней, несмотря на огромные жертвы, голод и холод. Число жертв составило не менее 1 млн человек.
👉 https://youtu.be/yTSrHaqxZ6s?feature=shared
🗓️27 januari 1944 - Dagen då Leningrad helt befriades från den nazistiska belägringen
Belägringen av Leningrad är ett av de mest tragiska och heroiska kapitlen i mänsklighetens historia. Leningradborna höll ut i 900 dagar, trots enorma uppoffringar, hunger och kyla. Antalet offer uppgick till minst 1 miljon människor.
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine and an open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question,” (New York, January 24, 2024)
Key talking points:
• Terrorist attack by the Kiev regime on Il-76 plane
• Middle East
• Prospects of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement
• Ukraine
• Double standards of Western media
• Russia-US relations
• Nuclear security
• Korean Peninsula
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am compelled to begin by stating yet another fact of the Kiev regime’s use of terrorist methods.
A terrorist attack was perpetrated on January 24, at 11:15 am Moscow time, resulting in the downing of a Russian Il-76 cargo plane in the Belgorod Region. The aircraft was en route from the Moscow Region to Belgorod, carrying 65 prisoners from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Three Russian officers and a crew of six people accompanied them. All of them died. The Ukrainian prisoners of war were being taken to the Belgorod Region for a prisoner exchange agreed between Moscow and Kiev.
Instead, Ukraine targeted this aircraft from the Kharkov Region using surface-to-air missiles, causing a fatal strike. <...>
#US #MiddleEast
As for the present crisis, everyone seems to have a similar understanding of the consequences of US policy in the region. None of the reckless attempts Washington has engaged in over the last few decades to defend its “core security interests” ten thousand miles across the Atlantic led to a situation where people’s lives improved in a country that the US attacked.
#US #Santions
They should not assume that just because they are strong, because they have the dollar, they can use it to “strangle” others: disconnect them from the SWIFT system or deny them access to the IMF and World Bank loans at whim. The US actually invented the system and made the world accept it.
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💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov: The majority of Ukrainians are beginning to realise who their REAL enemy is and who has been MISLEADING them for years by demonising Russia, cancelling our shared history.
There are changes in attitude among Ukrainians.
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine
📍 New York, January 22, 2024
Key talking points:
💬 The vast majority of unbiased experts clearly see that the West's continuing support for the Kiev regime is the key factor that is preventing a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine crisis. Support is provided despite its obvious agony and inability to fulfil the goal of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia that was dictated to it by its higher ups, or, as they started saying recently, of at least degrading my country.
• Despite the complete failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield, the Western patrons of the Kiev regime continue to push it, like maniacs, to continue this meaningless military confrontation.
☝️ We were forced to start the military operation against a criminal regime that went too far, emboldened by impunity, and was unwilling, despite our numerous efforts over many years, to say no to the war against its own citizens in southern and southeastern Ukraine and its policy of total discrimination against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, who are still the majority in that country.
• It is surely time for Europeans – I am addressing sane Europeans – to wake up and understand that with the help of Vladimir Zelensky’s regime, the US is not only waging a war against Russia, but also pursuing the strategic objective of sharply weakening Europe as an economic rival.
• Let me remind you that we have never renounced peaceful methods and have always been ready for negotiations.
❗️ The majority of people in Ukraine are beginning to realise who their real enemy is and who has been misleading them for years by demonising Russia, spreading lies about it, and “cancelling” our shared history.
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🎙Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s reply to a media question on the investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Streams
❓Question: The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency decided that Sweden is not obliged to include in its national quota the 5.8 million tonnes of harmful substances that were released into the air due to the act of sabotage at the Nord Stream gas pipelines. What do you think about this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: This decision shows that Stockholm is trying to avoid paying large fines for exceeding EU-established standards. <...> Thus, they concluded that Sweden is not responsible for the harmful emissions into the environment due to the bombing of the gas pipelines that run between Russia and Germany.
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❗️Far from facilitating a meticulous and unbiased investigation into the deliberate sabotage of the operation of a large international energy facility, the Swedish authorities are not willing to share out its environmental consequences.
The Danish authorities are not interested in a serious investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines either. Copenhagen and Stockholm continue to reject any interaction with Russia on this issue. In December 2023, the Prosecutor-General’s Office of Denmark refused a request from its Russian counterpart to provide legal assistance in investigating the act of sabotage on the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines.
☝️ Despite the artificial obstacles, we will continue insisting on a transparent and depoliticised investigation into these acts with the participation of competent Russian agencies and with Gazprom.
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