🔴 #LIVE: #Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 #Комментарий Посольства России в Вашингтоне
🔹 В местных СМИ продолжается кампания по дискредитации России через раздувание мнимой угрозы применения ВС РФ биологического оружия.
🔹 Подчеркиваем, что именно США, а не наша страна, запятнали свою репутацию в данной области. Документальные подтверждения этого неоднократно приводило Минобороны России со ссылкой на американские доклады.
🔹 Так, еще в марте 2022 г. институт стратегических исследований армии США опубликовал отчет о программе хим- и биооружия в период войны в Корее. Из него следует, что в ходе подготовки к корейской кампании «ВВС США изыскали дополнительные средства для закупки большого количества химических и биологических авиационных боеприпасов, получили для них испытательный полигон в Канаде и проделали большую концептуальную работу по их применению».
🔹 В качестве приоритетных биоагентов рассматривались возбудители бруцеллеза и экономически значимых инфекций, в т.ч. стеблевой ржавчины пшеницы. Две с половиной тысячи таких боеприпасов планировалось применить в т.ч. «для нанесения удара по советским зерновым культурам».
🔹 В докладе подрядчиков пентагона на Украине Black&Veatch и Metabiota также фигурируют проекты с шифром «ТАР», направленные на изучение вирусов, способных нанести ущерб сельскому хозяйству: сап, африканская и классическая чума свиней, высокопатогенный грипп птиц, болезнь Ньюкасла.
🔹 Сравнительный анализ программ США в период Корейской войны и в настоящее время на территории Украины свидетельствует о неизменности подходов Вашингтона к наращиванию военно-биологического потенциала в обход международных договоренностей.
❗️ Призываем местных экспертов ознакомиться с указанными документами и задуматься, почему США столько лет препятствуют попыткам ответственных членов международного сообщества, включая Россию, укрепить режим биоконвенции и блокируют выработку юридически обязывающего протокола к КБТО.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 #Comment by the Russian Embassy in the USA
🔹 The US media keep on waging the campaign to discredit Russia by exaggerating the imaginary threat of the Russian Armed Forces using biological weapons.
🔹 We emphasize that it is the United States, but not our country that tarnished its reputation in that field. The Russian Ministry of Defense has repeatedly cited documentary evidence of it on the basis of the American reports.
🔹 Thus, in March 2022, the U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute published a report on the chemical and biological weapons program during the Korean War. According to the document, while preparing for the Korean campaign, “the U.S. Air Force secured additional funds to purchase large quantities of chemical and biological munitions, obtained a testing range for them in Canada and carried out an extensive conceptual work on their use”.
🔹 The Americans considered brucellosis pathogens and economically important infections, including wheat stem rust, as priority biological agents. 2,500 munitions of this type were planned to use, including “to attack Soviet grain crops”
🔹 The report of the Pentagon contractors in Ukraine, Black&Veatch and Metabiota, also includes projects codenamed “TAP” aimed at studying infections capable of damaging the agriculture, such as glanders, African swine fever (ASF), classical swine fever, highly pathogenic avian influenza and Newcastle disease.
🔹 The comparative analysis of U.S. programs during the Korean War and currently in Ukraine demonstrates the persistence of the U.S. policy of building up its own military and biological capabilities in circumvention of international agreements.
❗️ We urge local experts to acquaint themselves with the above mentioned documents and give it a hard thought as to why the US has been hindering the attempts of the responsible members of the world community, including Russia, to strengthen the BWC regime as well as blocking the development of the legally binding verification protocol to the Convention.

⚡️ Ответ официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой на вопрос СМИ

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❓ Как Вы могли бы прокомментировать заявление Генерального секретаря ООН А.Гутерреша от 14 июля, в котором говорится, что он «потрясен ракетным обстрелом г.Винница в центральной части Украины»?

💬 М.В.Захарова: Действительно, обратили внимание на это заявление А.Гутерреша. Хотелось бы отметить следующее.

☝️ Согласно данным Министерства обороны России, в г.Винница удар высокоточными ракетами «Калибр» был нанесен по гарнизонному дому офицеров, в котором в тот момент проходило совещание командования украинских ВВС с представителями иностранных поставщиков вооружений. И об этом, вероятно, известно в ООН. Если нет, то рекомендуем А.Гутеррешу попросить Украину ответить на вопрос, почему киевский режим размещает военные объекты в непосредственной близости от гражданских?

⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question

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❓ What can you tell us about UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saying on July 14 that he was shocked by a rocket fired into the city of Vinnitsa, central Ukraine?

💬 Maria #Zakharova: Indeed, this statement by Antonio Guterres has come to our attention. Here’s what I would like to say.

☝️ According to the Russian Defence Ministry, high-precision Kalibr missiles were used in Vinnitsa targeting a garrison house of officers which at that moment was housing a meeting of the Ukrainian Air Force command with representatives of foreign arms suppliers. The UN is probably aware of that. If not, then we suggest that Mr Guterres ask Ukraine why the Kiev regime is placing military facilities in close proximity to civilian buildings?

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, July 14, 2022

Main topics:
🔹 Situation in Ukraine
🔹 Military invasions by the US and its allies
🔹 UNSC Arria-formula meeting on neo-Nazism in Ukraine
🔹 Western countries' repressions against Russian media and journalist
🔹 UNSC resolution on Syria
🔹 Russian humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
🔹 War on fake news
🔹 Global food and energy crisis
🔹 BRICS
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#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: Possible mis- interpretation of sanctions could lead to over-compliance or market avoidance. The EU is ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. Not the whole financial system of Russia is de-SWIFTed and if some financial institutions decide voluntarily not to participate in this trade the cause is over-compliance.

✅ Fact: It is the EU countries that have been delegated the right to impose a system of fines and penalties for violation of restrictions and it have been constituted to the national level. This could result in 27 interpretations of the same action.

Since February 2022, the EU has introduced six packages of illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. The European Commission has issued over 200 pages of “explanations” for these restrictions but it says on the first page of this document that they are not legally binding. In this case, Brussels is not entitled to make any decisions for the EU states.

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🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on military adventures of the US and its allies:

💬 Western countries continue to circulate statements about the need to collect some kind of reparations from Russia and expropriate – in other words, misappropriate – Russian public and private assets abroad. Sometimes they add “for rebuilding Ukraine.”

👉 In this context, the Russian Foreign Ministry has prepared visual information materials on the consequences of the military adventures of the United States and its European allies over the past couple of decades. The article is posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry under the corresponding banner. It clearly, with reference to authoritative sources, provides data on material damage to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, inflicted by the United States (and its satellites).

We do not claim to present a complete calculation of the losses incurred, but even a conservative estimate puts it trillions of dollars.

📆 From July 17 to August 2, 1945, the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States of America and the United Kingdom — Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill — gathered at the Potsdam Conference. They worked out resolutions on the postwar order of Europe and approved the further military strategy of the coalition in the fight against militarist Japan.

ℹ️ The victorious powers agreed on a general policy in relation to Germany and its former allies. The main principles were demilitarisation, denazification, democratisation and decartelisation of the state.

ℹ️ The conference participants also examined territorial issues related to the end of the war in Europe. Efforts of the Soviet delegates resulted in the substantial expansion of Poland’s territory and the transfer of Königsberg to the USSR.

ℹ️ During the conference, the Soviet Union acknowledged its obligations to join the war against militarist Japan.

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#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.

✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in of its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.

In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. In reality, a bad situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.

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