It is with profound sorrow that we inform of the demise of Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the former Russian Ambassador to India, a journalist, politician, intelligence officer and diplomat. Hero of Russia, Army General, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. A man of exceptional talents and high moral qualities. A Teacher and mentor. An irreparable loss for all of us and the whole of Russia. Our heartfelt condolences to the near and dear ones of late Amb. Trubnikov.

🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives interview to India Today TV-channel

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Watch #EXCLUSIVE interview of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Geeta Mohan (India Today)

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🇷🇺🙏 Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the relatives of the late Vyacheslav Trubnikov, calling the former director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service a proper officer and a real patriot, a telegram message posted on the Kremlin’s website on Tuesday reads.

⚡️Over the past day, a number of publications have been recorded in the Ukrainian media, in which official representatives of Kiev claim that a large number of civilians are allegedly on Azovstal. We are sure that this is just another information scam created solely to save the nationalists.

❗️We appeal to the representatives of the Kiev authorities: "if someone from the civilian population is on Azovstal, we demand to take all measures for their release and exit through the created humanitarian corridors." At the same time, the Russian leadership guarantees the safe evacuation of all, without exception, civilians and their movement as part of humanitarian convoys in any direction they choose.

❗️At the same time, we declare that the forcible detention of civilians as a "human shield" in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law is terrorism, and the officials of the Kiev authorities and the direct perpetrators of this inhumane action on Azovstal are war criminals and terrorists.

Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation

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Transcript of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to India Today ➡️ https://india.mid.ru/en/news/russian_foreign_minister_sergey_lavrov_s_interview_with_india_today_television_channel/

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives an extensive interview to the "India Today" TV channel, speaks on the Russia-India relations, situation in Ukraine and other topical international issues.

Watch in full 👆

We continue to publish separate data on the losses of the national guard of Ukraine (NGU), obtained from original Ukrainian documents.

Today we disclose information about significant losses among the military personnel of the NGU 4th operational brigade (military unit 3018) (by March 29, 2022).

📄 The documents provided include information on the wounded, dead and suicidal soldiers, the circumstances of their deaths and the places of burial.

📌 Data on combat losses in military unit 3018, circumstances of their deaths and places of burial.

📌 Data on the loss of military personnel in military unit 3018 due to injury, trauma. Part 1

📌 Data on the loss of military personnel in military unit 3018 due to injury, trauma. Part 2

The documents available to the Russian Defence Ministry also indicate a large number of deserted servicemen, wounded and missing.

We are showing the truth!

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video)

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video) (April 20, 2022)

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​​🗓 Top News Today

🚀 Sarmat, land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, was successfully launched from a silo at the Plesetsk state testing cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Region.

💥 Missile troops and artillery hit 1,053 Ukrainian military infrastructure assets. Among them: 31 command posts, 6 fuel depots, 910 strong points and areas of enemy's manpower concentration, as well as 106 artillery firing positions.

💥 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 12 military assets of Ukraine. 2 command posts of Ukrainian troops in Gusarovka and Andreevka, 3 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration in Arkhangelovka, Kramatorsk and Selidovo, and 6 strong points of nationalist formations near Popasnaya were hit.

◽️ Selected National Guard of Ukraine casualty figures obtained from actual Ukrainian documents have been published. They disclose significant casualties among military personnel of the military unit 3018 (by March 29, 2022).

❗️ Russian Armed Forces open humanitarian corridor for evacuation from Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol for humanitarian purposes only.

📹 Video of the Russian Armed Forces carrying out their tasks during the special military operation continues to be published: it shows the combat work of Su-34 crews and the work of Bal coastal missile system crews from the Black Sea coast.

◽️ Russian servicemen found the headquarters of territorial defence unit in Kherson school.

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💬⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Boris Johnson has urged the Russian government to treat the Briton detained in Mariupol while fighting on the side of the Ukrainian government forces “humanely and compassionately.”

Here is what we have to say in this respect.

Boris, we know that you personally and your Government have disavowed the British subjects who have fallen victim to British propaganda and went to Ukraine as mercenaries to kill people there.

Don’t pretend to be worried. You are utterly unconcerned about the fate of Britons in trouble. They didn’t drink champagne with you at Downing Street, and so they can wait for your protection till kingdom come.

I would like to tell the following to those Britons who are concerned about their compatriots: Don’t worry, Russia is taking care of them. They are given food and drink, as well as any other assistance they may need, just as the other foreigners who have surrendered or have been detained.

Unlike the Ukrainian fighters who brutally kill prisoners and torture civilians, the Russian Armed Forces are committed to humanitarian law. If there were no media censorship in Britain, everyone there would know this.

At the same time, we urge the British authorities to treat the citizens of Ukraine “humanely and compassionately,” as Boris Johnson said, by stopping the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. The more weapons London is sending to Ukraine, the more citizens of Ukraine die as a result. But the BBC will never tell Britons about that.

We continue to publish separate data on the losses of the national guard of Ukraine (NGU), obtained from original Ukrainian documents.

Today we disclose information about significant losses among the military personnel of the NGU 3th operational brigade (military unit 3017) (by March 29, 2022).

📄The documents provided include information on the wounded, dead and suicidal soldiers, the circumstances of their deaths and the places of burial.

📌 Data on combat losses in military unit 3017, circumstances of their deaths and places of burial.

📌 Data on the loss of military personnel in military unit 3017 due to injury or trauma. Part 1

📌 Data on the loss of military personnel in military unit 3017 due to injury, trauma or AWOL (abandonment of post). Part 2

The documents available to the Russian Defence Ministry also indicate a large number of deserted servicemen, wounded and missing.

We are showing the truth!

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video)

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International concern forced the Ukrainian Security Service to show that 🇨🇱/🇺🇸 reporter Gonzalo Lira, whom the nationalists detained on April 15, is alive!

However, he doesn’t have access to his cellphone and social media accounts, gagged on what he can say publicly, and not allowed to leave Kharkov.

In a way, he got “lucky”. A number of his fellow journalists, who received “the Ukrainian treatment of the free press”, will never be seen again.

FULL VIDEO (courtesy of “The Duran”).

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🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Defence launches a new multimedia historical project "Mariupol. Liberation", dedicated to one of the most important episodes of the Donbass operation in 1943

💥The Russian Armed Forces continue to #DemilitariZation of Nazis:
▫️another high-precision weaponry strike was carried out against the military infrastructure of AFU;
▫️strike by high-precision long-range Kalibr missiles near the railway station of Miliorativnoe destroyed up to a battalion of enemy personnel with weapons and military equipment;
▫️1 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, 1 Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system and 1 electronic warfare station were destroyed at airfield near Barvenkovo;
▫️footage of a fortified area abandoned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine with dead bodies and military equipment has been published;
▫️Russian Armed Forces' engineering troops have taken control of the arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kharkov Region.

▫️ All remnants of the Ukrainian Azov Nazis, together with foreign mercenaries from the US and European countries, are securely locked inside the Azovstal plant. Demands that the women and children allegedly with them be released to travel freely in any direction are ignored by Nazis. The procedure for civilians, if there are any, to leave Azovstal for further evacuation is reported to the Nazis every hour.

▫️Mariupol residents were able to move freely through the streets without having to hide from Ukrainian Nazi shelling. Humanitarian aid is being delivered and the DPR authorities are organising the clearing of rubble from the streets.

📑Selected National Guard of Ukraine casualty figures obtained from actual Ukrainian documents have been published. It discloses significant casualties among military personnel of the military unit 3017.

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To date, the United States is the only state in world history that has used all three types of weapons of mass destruction.

▫️The dropped nuclear bombs during the Second World War on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the use of toxic chemicals in Vietnam and Iraq - all these crimes were not properly assessed by relevant international organizations.

❗️Thus, in an attempt to discredit the special military operation of the Russian troops, the Kiev regime, at the suggestion of the American administration, is able to implement scenarios in the near future that will lead to the death of tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens and cause an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.

📑 Full text of the Briefing on a provocation against the Russian Federation prepared by the USA and NATO with the accusation of using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons

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​​The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation possesses the information related to the preparation of provocations by the United States of America in order to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons. This plan has already been developed and represents a response to the success of Russia in conducting the special military operation.

▫️Only in March and April senior officials of the Western countries have been making regular provocative ‘warning’ statements. The mass media propagate the points about the possibility of using weapons of mass destructions by Russia.

▫️For example, the National Security Advisor J.Sullivan has commented on Biden’s words that the USA “in kind” to the possible use of weapons of mass destructions by our country. And on February 27 the American permanent representative to the UN Greenfield announced an intention of Russia to use any instruments ‘under a false flag’, including chemical and biological weapons for intimidating the Ukrainian population and the international community.

▫️Against this background, the US State Department considered positively the transfer of up to 400 sets of personal protection equipment, 390 NBC reconnaissance devices and 15 ‘Stryker’ reconnaissance vehicles.

📑 Full text of the Briefing on a provocation against the Russian Federation prepared by the USA and NATO with the accusation of using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons

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