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💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 43 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
💥 Russian air defence means have shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the day near Russkaya Lozovaya, Pitomnik, and Izyum in Kharkov Region, including one over Snake Island.
📹 Footage of destruction of pontoon crossing and AFU units attempting to cross the Severskyi Donets has been published. Footage of Airborne Troop units and army aviation crews in action has been published.
🏳️ AFU soldier who laid down his arms spoke about the betrayal of his commanders and noted the good attitude of the Russian Armed Forces.
⚠️ Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters continue to record facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev, and use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.
🚛 More than 2,000 children have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. Over the past day, 434 tonnes of essential goods and food were handed over to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions.
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💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 43 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
💥 Russian air defence means have shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the day near Russkaya Lozovaya, Pitomnik, and Izyum in Kharkov Region, including one over Snake Island.
📹 Footage of destruction of pontoon crossing and AFU units attempting to cross the Severskyi Donets has been published. Footage of Airborne Troop units and army aviation crews in action has been published.
🏳️ AFU soldier who laid down his arms spoke about the betrayal of his commanders and noted the good attitude of the Russian Armed Forces.
⚠️ Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters continue to record facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev, and use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.
🚛 More than 2,000 children have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. Over the past day, 434 tonnes of essential goods and food were handed over to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
📑 The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, at its session in Moscow, the Collective Security Council decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization with the appropriate status. The CSTO Charter entered into force on September 18, 2003.
🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇷🇺🇹🇯The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation and Republic of Tajikistan.
#CSTO
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📑 The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, at its session in Moscow, the Collective Security Council decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization with the appropriate status. The CSTO Charter entered into force on September 18, 2003.
🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇷🇺🇹🇯The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation and Republic of Tajikistan.
#CSTO
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🇷🇺🚛 Russian servicemen delivered humanitarian aid to one of the settlements in the liberated LPR territory.
◽️ Women with children, elderly people and refugees were the first to receive aid from Russia.
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◽️ Women with children, elderly people and refugees were the first to receive aid from Russia.
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⚡️ On May 16, as a result of negotiations with representatives of Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, an agreement was reached to evacuate the wounded.
▫️At present, ceasefire regime was established in the area of the enterprise and a humanitarian corridor was opened, through which wounded Ukrainian servicemen were transported to a medical facility in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People's Republic, to provide them with all necessary assistance.
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▫️At present, ceasefire regime was established in the area of the enterprise and a humanitarian corridor was opened, through which wounded Ukrainian servicemen were transported to a medical facility in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People's Republic, to provide them with all necessary assistance.
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💥 Russian air defence mean overnight shot down 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Novotroitskoe, Vladimirovka, Petrovskoe, Luganskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Yepifanovka, Kudryashovka, Verkhnyaya Duvanka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Chkalovskoe, Velykie Prokhody, Vyshee Solenoe in Kharkov Region and over Snake Island.
💥 1 Tochka-U tactical missile was intercepted near Stepnoe, Kherson Region, and 11 Smerch multiple-launch rockets were intercepted near Kamenka, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Brazhkovka, Kharkov Region, and Chernobayevka, Kherson Region.
💥 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 2 command posts, 11 company strongpoints and 4 ammunition depots of AFU near Zaporozhye, Paraskovievka, Kostantinovka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
📹 The Ministry of Defence has published footage of army aviation fire support crew escorting military column.
🚛 Russian servicemen delivered humanitarian aid to one of the settlements in the liberated LPR territory.
🗓 On May 15, marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
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💥 Russian air defence mean overnight shot down 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Novotroitskoe, Vladimirovka, Petrovskoe, Luganskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Yepifanovka, Kudryashovka, Verkhnyaya Duvanka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Chkalovskoe, Velykie Prokhody, Vyshee Solenoe in Kharkov Region and over Snake Island.
💥 1 Tochka-U tactical missile was intercepted near Stepnoe, Kherson Region, and 11 Smerch multiple-launch rockets were intercepted near Kamenka, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Brazhkovka, Kharkov Region, and Chernobayevka, Kherson Region.
💥 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 2 command posts, 11 company strongpoints and 4 ammunition depots of AFU near Zaporozhye, Paraskovievka, Kostantinovka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
📹 The Ministry of Defence has published footage of army aviation fire support crew escorting military column.
🚛 Russian servicemen delivered humanitarian aid to one of the settlements in the liberated LPR territory.
🗓 On May 15, marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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🏥 Injured by AFU shelling, a resident of the Luhansk People's Republic thanked Russian servicemen and doctors for their help.
◽️ The man came under fire of Ukrainian MLRS Grad and was wounded by shrapnel.
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◽️ The man came under fire of Ukrainian MLRS Grad and was wounded by shrapnel.
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🇷🇺🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯 The Kremlin hosted a meeting of the heads of state of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
On the agenda:
▫️ key issues of cooperation within the CSTO,
▫️ topical international and regional problems,
▫️ measures to further improve the collective security system.
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
▫️ Our current high-priority task is to further improve and streamline the work of the CSTO and its governing bodies. We will also provide the collective CSTO forces with modern weapons and equipment.
▫️ This autumn, there are plans to hold an entire series of joint CSTO exercises in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
▫️ During the special operation in Ukraine, documentary evidence was obtained that components of biological weapons were developed in close proximity to our borders. We count on our colleagues supporting the earliest possible implementation of Russia’s initiative to operationalise the designated CSTO council.
▫️ In this context, it is important to build up cooperation with our “natural” partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Commonwealth of Independent States. By the way, we think it would be appropriate and correct – we will discuss this – to grant the CIS observer status in the CSTO.
▫️ Unfortunately, in our neighbouring country, Ukraine, neo-Nazism has been on the rise for a long time now, to which some of our partners from the “collective West” turn a blind eye. Nowhere are Nazis being glorified at the state level. But unfortunately, this is happening in Ukraine.
▫️ Russia has no problems with Finland and Sweden. Therefore, there is no direct threat to Russia in connection with NATO’s expansion to these countries. But the expansion of its military infrastructure to these territories will certainly evoke a response on our part.
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On the agenda:
▫️ key issues of cooperation within the CSTO,
▫️ topical international and regional problems,
▫️ measures to further improve the collective security system.
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
▫️ Our current high-priority task is to further improve and streamline the work of the CSTO and its governing bodies. We will also provide the collective CSTO forces with modern weapons and equipment.
▫️ This autumn, there are plans to hold an entire series of joint CSTO exercises in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
▫️ During the special operation in Ukraine, documentary evidence was obtained that components of biological weapons were developed in close proximity to our borders. We count on our colleagues supporting the earliest possible implementation of Russia’s initiative to operationalise the designated CSTO council.
▫️ In this context, it is important to build up cooperation with our “natural” partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Commonwealth of Independent States. By the way, we think it would be appropriate and correct – we will discuss this – to grant the CIS observer status in the CSTO.
▫️ Unfortunately, in our neighbouring country, Ukraine, neo-Nazism has been on the rise for a long time now, to which some of our partners from the “collective West” turn a blind eye. Nowhere are Nazis being glorified at the state level. But unfortunately, this is happening in Ukraine.
▫️ Russia has no problems with Finland and Sweden. Therefore, there is no direct threat to Russia in connection with NATO’s expansion to these countries. But the expansion of its military infrastructure to these territories will certainly evoke a response on our part.
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❗️ As a result of negotiations with representatives of Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, an agreement was reached to evacuate the wounded. At present, ceasefire regime was established in the area of the enterprise and a humanitarian corridor was opened, through which wounded Ukrainian servicemen were transported to a medical facility in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People's Republic, to provide them with all necessary assistance.
💥 Russian air defence means have shot down 2 Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Yevgenovka, Nikolaev Region and Velikaya Kamyshevakha. In addition, 1 Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft has been shot down near Snake Island.
💥 Missile troops and artillery have hit 325 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 14 command posts and 24 artillery units at firing positions.
📹 Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of the Russian Armed Forces' mortar as well as missile and artillery crews in action. Video of Russian sappers demining the fortified area has been published, as well as a video of military medics of the Central Military District and civilian colleagues from the Lugansk People's Republic working together.
⚠️ Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters continue to record facts of use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.
🚛 Russian servicemen and Cossacks deliver 55 tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents of Zaporozhye region.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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❗️ As a result of negotiations with representatives of Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, an agreement was reached to evacuate the wounded. At present, ceasefire regime was established in the area of the enterprise and a humanitarian corridor was opened, through which wounded Ukrainian servicemen were transported to a medical facility in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People's Republic, to provide them with all necessary assistance.
💥 Russian air defence means have shot down 2 Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Yevgenovka, Nikolaev Region and Velikaya Kamyshevakha. In addition, 1 Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft has been shot down near Snake Island.
💥 Missile troops and artillery have hit 325 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 14 command posts and 24 artillery units at firing positions.
📹 Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of the Russian Armed Forces' mortar as well as missile and artillery crews in action. Video of Russian sappers demining the fortified area has been published, as well as a video of military medics of the Central Military District and civilian colleagues from the Lugansk People's Republic working together.
⚠️ Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters continue to record facts of use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.
🚛 Russian servicemen and Cossacks deliver 55 tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents of Zaporozhye region.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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Press release on global food security in the context of a statement by the G7 foreign ministers
We noted the final statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, whereby they accused Russia of unilateral steps to undermine the agricultural potential of Ukraine and worsen the status of global food security.
☝️ In this context, we would like to remind others about the primary causes of the unfavourable situation that is taking shape in the world food markets.
👉 The crisis phenomena of the past few years are primarily linked to the miscalculations and accumulated system-wide mistakes in the macroeconomic (including finances and trade), energy (including climate) and food policy of the collective West.
👉 The COVID-19 pandemic made a bad situation worse. Its consequences, including the disruption of production and marketing chains, and higher freight and insurance costs, have caused even more turbulence in the world food and other markets.
Importantly, the unilateral actions by the Western states, primarily the G7 countries, have aggravated the disruption of logistics and financial chains for food supplies to the world markets.
We noted the final statement by the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, whereby they accused Russia of unilateral steps to undermine the agricultural potential of Ukraine and worsen the status of global food security.
☝️ In this context, we would like to remind others about the primary causes of the unfavourable situation that is taking shape in the world food markets.
👉 The crisis phenomena of the past few years are primarily linked to the miscalculations and accumulated system-wide mistakes in the macroeconomic (including finances and trade), energy (including climate) and food policy of the collective West.
👉 The COVID-19 pandemic made a bad situation worse. Its consequences, including the disruption of production and marketing chains, and higher freight and insurance costs, have caused even more turbulence in the world food and other markets.
Importantly, the unilateral actions by the Western states, primarily the G7 countries, have aggravated the disruption of logistics and financial chains for food supplies to the world markets.
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💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: To learn how the West churns out fakes, take a look at our in-depth dissection of their latest one regarding the "Russian threat to food security".
We use only hard facts and statistics - that's our motto ✅
👉 https://telegra.ph/Man-Made-Famine-2022-05-17
We use only hard facts and statistics - that's our motto ✅
👉 https://telegra.ph/Man-Made-Famine-2022-05-17
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Man-Made Famine 2022
Representatives of the collective West members are tripping over each other as they scramble to accuse Russia of undermining global food security. The G7 has issued a special statement in this regard. To be sure, we responded. Those most deeply concerned…
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📹🏳️ Surrender of Azov nationalist unit fighters and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol
◽️ Over the past 24 hours, 265 militants have laid down arms and surrendered, including 51 seriously wounded.
🏥 All those in need of medical assistance were sent for treatment to a hospital in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People's Republic.
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◽️ Over the past 24 hours, 265 militants have laid down arms and surrendered, including 51 seriously wounded.
🏥 All those in need of medical assistance were sent for treatment to a hospital in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People's Republic.
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🇸🇪 On May 16, the Government of Sweden made the decision to apply for NATO membership.
Russia has repeatedly stated that the choice of ways to ensure national security is an internal affair of any country.
Stockholm’s foreign policy has been based on neutrality for over 200 years and for decades remained an important factor in ensuring stability and trust in the Baltic Sea region.
❗️Sweden’s accession to NATO will inflict considerable damage to the security of Northern Europe and Europe as a whole. The Russian Federation will have to take response measures, both military-technical and others, to curb the threats to its national security which arise in this context. In this respect, much will depend on the specific conditions of Sweden’s integration into the North Atlantic Alliance, including the potential deployment of strike systems of this military bloc on its territory.
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Russia has repeatedly stated that the choice of ways to ensure national security is an internal affair of any country.
Stockholm’s foreign policy has been based on neutrality for over 200 years and for decades remained an important factor in ensuring stability and trust in the Baltic Sea region.
❗️Sweden’s accession to NATO will inflict considerable damage to the security of Northern Europe and Europe as a whole. The Russian Federation will have to take response measures, both military-technical and others, to curb the threats to its national security which arise in this context. In this respect, much will depend on the specific conditions of Sweden’s integration into the North Atlantic Alliance, including the potential deployment of strike systems of this military bloc on its territory.
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#Alipov: In order to understand the current situation around Ukraine, let’s be very clear: the Russian special military operation has been neither unprovoked nor unjustified as our critics repeat time and again.
It was precisely provoked by a deliberate decades-long NATO expansion eastwards moving the military potential of the bloc closer to the Russian borders in violation of its own commitments. It was accompanied by the US unilateral withdrawal from basic strategic regimes as well as the Western intended attempts to play the Ukrainian card against Russia by supporting the anti-constitutional coup in Kiev in February 2014 bringing to power the extreme anti-Russian nationalists & Neo-Nazis, who ultimately were preparing to solve the issue of Donbass—the region that since then have been resisting the policy of Kiev—by force.
Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov’s interview to the Force Magazine ➡️ https://forceindia.net/interview/ambassador-russian-federation-india-denis-alipov/
It was precisely provoked by a deliberate decades-long NATO expansion eastwards moving the military potential of the bloc closer to the Russian borders in violation of its own commitments. It was accompanied by the US unilateral withdrawal from basic strategic regimes as well as the Western intended attempts to play the Ukrainian card against Russia by supporting the anti-constitutional coup in Kiev in February 2014 bringing to power the extreme anti-Russian nationalists & Neo-Nazis, who ultimately were preparing to solve the issue of Donbass—the region that since then have been resisting the policy of Kiev—by force.
Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov’s interview to the Force Magazine ➡️ https://forceindia.net/interview/ambassador-russian-federation-india-denis-alipov/
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🏳️ In Mariupol, militants of Azov nationalist unit and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant continue to surrender. Over the past 24 hours, 694 militants have laid down arms and surrendered, including 29 wounded.
💥 Over a day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 2 command posts, including the territorial defence headquarters near Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as 31 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, including locations of foreign mercenary units from European countries in Nikolaev and Krasnogorovka. 1 pontoon crossing point equipped by Ukrainian Armed Forces to cross the Severskyi Donets River has been destroyed near Protopopovka, Kharkov Region.
💥 Missile troops and artillery have hit 76 command posts, 421 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 147 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, including 1 Ukrainian battery of US-made 155mm M777 howitzers near Pogornoe.
📹 Footage of combat operations of the Tor-M2U tactical anti-aircraft missile systems and 152-mm Msta-S and Akatsiya-M self-propelled howitzer crews have been published.
💥 Footage of destruction of Ukrainian battery of US-made M777 155mm howitzers near Podgornoe has been published.
🏳️🇺🇦 Wounded Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal in Novoazovsk hospital thank doctors for their help and talk about their condition and treatment progress.
⚠️ According to testimonies of captured servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Kiev regime under Western handlers is preparing another provocation in Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, following "Bucha" scenario.
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🏳️ In Mariupol, militants of Azov nationalist unit and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant continue to surrender. Over the past 24 hours, 694 militants have laid down arms and surrendered, including 29 wounded.
💥 Over a day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 2 command posts, including the territorial defence headquarters near Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as 31 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, including locations of foreign mercenary units from European countries in Nikolaev and Krasnogorovka. 1 pontoon crossing point equipped by Ukrainian Armed Forces to cross the Severskyi Donets River has been destroyed near Protopopovka, Kharkov Region.
💥 Missile troops and artillery have hit 76 command posts, 421 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 147 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, including 1 Ukrainian battery of US-made 155mm M777 howitzers near Pogornoe.
📹 Footage of combat operations of the Tor-M2U tactical anti-aircraft missile systems and 152-mm Msta-S and Akatsiya-M self-propelled howitzer crews have been published.
💥 Footage of destruction of Ukrainian battery of US-made M777 155mm howitzers near Podgornoe has been published.
🏳️🇺🇦 Wounded Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal in Novoazovsk hospital thank doctors for their help and talk about their condition and treatment progress.
⚠️ According to testimonies of captured servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Kiev regime under Western handlers is preparing another provocation in Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, following "Bucha" scenario.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov will attend a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the #BRICS countries via videoconference.
The ministers will review global and regional issues, as well as the problems of maintaining peace and security and settling acute international conflicts. They will focus on coordinating the approaches of the BRICS nations at key multilateral platforms and intensifying cooperation in countering new challenges and threats.
The ministers will review the BRICS strategic partnership in three key areas – political, economic and humanitarian – in the context of preparing for the upcoming 14th summit of the association.
At the initiative of the Chinese Presidency in the Council of Foreign Ministers, a separate session will take place in BRICS-Plus format with the participation of the Foreign Ministers from a number of developing nations.
The ministers will review global and regional issues, as well as the problems of maintaining peace and security and settling acute international conflicts. They will focus on coordinating the approaches of the BRICS nations at key multilateral platforms and intensifying cooperation in countering new challenges and threats.
The ministers will review the BRICS strategic partnership in three key areas – political, economic and humanitarian – in the context of preparing for the upcoming 14th summit of the association.
At the initiative of the Chinese Presidency in the Council of Foreign Ministers, a separate session will take place in BRICS-Plus format with the participation of the Foreign Ministers from a number of developing nations.
On May 19, a group of legal and technical experts of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure completed its work in New Delhi.
They agreed upon a set of documents on countering terrorism and extremism, which are planned to be adopted at the upcoming meeting of the SCO RATS Council to be held in India in October this year.
We highly appreciate the level of organization of the event as well as the hospitality and cordiality of the Indian Side.
They agreed upon a set of documents on countering terrorism and extremism, which are planned to be adopted at the upcoming meeting of the SCO RATS Council to be held in India in October this year.
We highly appreciate the level of organization of the event as well as the hospitality and cordiality of the Indian Side.
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🏳️ In Mariupol, militants of the Azov nationalist unit blocked at the Azovstal plant continue to surrender. In the past 24 hours, 771 militants surrendered.
🚀 Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
📞 Telephone conversation between the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov and the Chairman of the United States Armed Forces Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley took place.
💥 During the day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 7 command posts, including the command posts of the 24th AFU motorized infantry brigade in Nikolaevka and the 104th territorial defence brigade in Konstantinovka, as well as 11 missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots near Bakhmut, Konstantinovka, Il'inka and Minkovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and 26 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration. 1 S-300 anti-aircraft missile system battalion near Bolshye Lomzaki, Nikolaev Region, and 1 Buk-M1 SAM battalion near Slavyanogorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, have been destroyed.
💥 Missile troops and artillery have hit 6 command posts, 295 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, 43 Ukrainian artillery and mortar units at firing positions and 2 radio-electronic warfare stations.
📹 Footage of Iskander operational-tactical missile system in action has been released.
⚠️ According to reliable information, the Kiev regime is preparing another sophisticated provocation with the use of so-called "travelling mortars" in Seredina Buda, Sumy Region. Ukraine's armed formations continue to openly and widely use health and cultural institutions, residential buildings, churches, kindergartens and schools and other civilian facilities to shelter military units and deploy weapons.
🇷🇺🏥 Russian military medics assisted a mother and her four-year-old son by taking them from Kherson Region to the Republic of Crimea.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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🏳️ In Mariupol, militants of the Azov nationalist unit blocked at the Azovstal plant continue to surrender. In the past 24 hours, 771 militants surrendered.
🚀 Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
📞 Telephone conversation between the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov and the Chairman of the United States Armed Forces Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley took place.
💥 During the day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 7 command posts, including the command posts of the 24th AFU motorized infantry brigade in Nikolaevka and the 104th territorial defence brigade in Konstantinovka, as well as 11 missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots near Bakhmut, Konstantinovka, Il'inka and Minkovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and 26 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration. 1 S-300 anti-aircraft missile system battalion near Bolshye Lomzaki, Nikolaev Region, and 1 Buk-M1 SAM battalion near Slavyanogorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, have been destroyed.
💥 Missile troops and artillery have hit 6 command posts, 295 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, 43 Ukrainian artillery and mortar units at firing positions and 2 radio-electronic warfare stations.
📹 Footage of Iskander operational-tactical missile system in action has been released.
⚠️ According to reliable information, the Kiev regime is preparing another sophisticated provocation with the use of so-called "travelling mortars" in Seredina Buda, Sumy Region. Ukraine's armed formations continue to openly and widely use health and cultural institutions, residential buildings, churches, kindergartens and schools and other civilian facilities to shelter military units and deploy weapons.
🇷🇺🏥 Russian military medics assisted a mother and her four-year-old son by taking them from Kherson Region to the Republic of Crimea.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a question from Rossiya Segodnya
❓US representatives accused Russia of undermining global food security at a recent conference in New York. What could you say about this?
💬 #Zakharova: Indeed, we noted the latest unfriendly statements made by American representatives about our country at the Food Security Conference they organised in New York. It took place on May 18 with a limited number of states but with a very specific task – to prove that the special military operation in Ukraine is the main reason for the global food shortage.
We are not surprised. These anti-Russia accusations are part of a well-orchestrated campaign of the collective West. Its goal is to blame Russia for all global problems.
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❓US representatives accused Russia of undermining global food security at a recent conference in New York. What could you say about this?
💬 #Zakharova: Indeed, we noted the latest unfriendly statements made by American representatives about our country at the Food Security Conference they organised in New York. It took place on May 18 with a limited number of states but with a very specific task – to prove that the special military operation in Ukraine is the main reason for the global food shortage.
We are not surprised. These anti-Russia accusations are part of a well-orchestrated campaign of the collective West. Its goal is to blame Russia for all global problems.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman
💬 The frenzied celebration of Atlanticism and the show that official Stockholm staged on the occasion of its “historic” decision to apply for NATO membership bear all the signs of laboured artificiality. After all, there is no national consensus behind Stockholm’s decision to join NATO. Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar came down hard on that decision. The attempts to get the Green Party to support the move to join the Alliance failed.
The Swedish media conveniently did NOT publish any opinion polls in the run-up to the “historic decision,” either.
That’s democracy, baby.
No one said a word about the referendum that could be held according to every canon of liberalism (which everyone remains in the dark about so far). This is strange. After all, the referendum holds a special place in the political culture of that country.
There have been quite a few national referendums in the Kingdom’s recent history, including on matters like transitioning to right-hand traffic (the 1955 referendum) and, I kid you not, a vote on prohibition ( 1922 referendum).
Prohibition posters of that time are available online (1, 2).
No doubt, issues like Sweden’s EU membership and accession to the single euro-currency system were also decided by a national vote. As such, Sweden adhered to fairly democratic practices. Clearly, much has changed in Sweden over the past 100 years since the first referendum was held in the 20th century, and democracy is now in short supply.
Crimea, which Ann Linde considers undemocratic, held a referendum, and the people made their choice. There was a referendum in the Soviet Union. In the Russian Federation, a vote was held on constitutional amendments. However, Sweden, which decided to overhaul its 200-year-old security policy, didn’t hold any.
Why? The answer is clear.
If you take a look at the latest polls, the growth in the number of people who are willing to “march in step with Brussels and Washington” (and spend 2 percent of GDP on defence, which is NATO-approved defence spending minimum) has slowed significantly.
According to a poll conducted by Demoskop and Aftonbladet on April 19, 2022 – more recent data is not available for obvious reasons – hardly more than half of Swedes are interested in joining NATO. To put it bluntly, every second Swede understands the morass their American “friends” are dragging Stockholm into.
Speaking of “friends,” it is notable that US senators were visiting Stockholm on the day the “historic” decision was announced. Not rank-and-file congressmen, but leader of the Senate Republicans Mitch McConnell. Sweden has not yet joined the Alliance, but the Americans are already dictating to the Swedish authorities what to say to their people. And this is just a demo of what is in store for them.
More than 200 years of neutrality, which guaranteed the Kingdom’s security and prosperity, are now history.
So why wasn’t there a referendum? Just because no one has been consulting Swedish public’s opinion on anything for a long time now. The Americans call the shots for the Swedes.
💬 The frenzied celebration of Atlanticism and the show that official Stockholm staged on the occasion of its “historic” decision to apply for NATO membership bear all the signs of laboured artificiality. After all, there is no national consensus behind Stockholm’s decision to join NATO. Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar came down hard on that decision. The attempts to get the Green Party to support the move to join the Alliance failed.
The Swedish media conveniently did NOT publish any opinion polls in the run-up to the “historic decision,” either.
That’s democracy, baby.
No one said a word about the referendum that could be held according to every canon of liberalism (which everyone remains in the dark about so far). This is strange. After all, the referendum holds a special place in the political culture of that country.
There have been quite a few national referendums in the Kingdom’s recent history, including on matters like transitioning to right-hand traffic (the 1955 referendum) and, I kid you not, a vote on prohibition ( 1922 referendum).
Prohibition posters of that time are available online (1, 2).
No doubt, issues like Sweden’s EU membership and accession to the single euro-currency system were also decided by a national vote. As such, Sweden adhered to fairly democratic practices. Clearly, much has changed in Sweden over the past 100 years since the first referendum was held in the 20th century, and democracy is now in short supply.
Crimea, which Ann Linde considers undemocratic, held a referendum, and the people made their choice. There was a referendum in the Soviet Union. In the Russian Federation, a vote was held on constitutional amendments. However, Sweden, which decided to overhaul its 200-year-old security policy, didn’t hold any.
Why? The answer is clear.
If you take a look at the latest polls, the growth in the number of people who are willing to “march in step with Brussels and Washington” (and spend 2 percent of GDP on defence, which is NATO-approved defence spending minimum) has slowed significantly.
According to a poll conducted by Demoskop and Aftonbladet on April 19, 2022 – more recent data is not available for obvious reasons – hardly more than half of Swedes are interested in joining NATO. To put it bluntly, every second Swede understands the morass their American “friends” are dragging Stockholm into.
Speaking of “friends,” it is notable that US senators were visiting Stockholm on the day the “historic” decision was announced. Not rank-and-file congressmen, but leader of the Senate Republicans Mitch McConnell. Sweden has not yet joined the Alliance, but the Americans are already dictating to the Swedish authorities what to say to their people. And this is just a demo of what is in store for them.
More than 200 years of neutrality, which guaranteed the Kingdom’s security and prosperity, are now history.
So why wasn’t there a referendum? Just because no one has been consulting Swedish public’s opinion on anything for a long time now. The Americans call the shots for the Swedes.
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🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations Vassily #Nebenzia at #UN Security Council open debate "Conflict and food security"
🔸 Present-day political culture of Western states is best characterized by a striving to blame Russia for everything. After we started a special military operation in Ukraine, the allegations against Moscow have made a “quantum leap”. Among them, allegations related to food security assumed a leading role.
🔸 We regret that our colleagues, Western #UNSC members, did not have enough courage to comment on the root causes of food and other crises in such states as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
🔸 Truth is that you got too carried away by your fruitless efforts to “break the backbone” of Russian economy and isolate our country at any cost. What I am speaking about is that in your proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, you are literally holding the whole developing world as hostage, driving it towards famine. Whatever you may be saying, it is you and only you who can change this.
❗️ Nevertheless, let me assure you that Russia remains a responsible supplier of both food and energy.
👉 I will appreciate if our Western colleagues, first of all the United States and the European Union, today publicly refute this “food for weapons” version which many experts stick to. Also, I invite them to explain how these deliveries actually contribute to global food security that you claim to be so concerned about.
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🔸 Present-day political culture of Western states is best characterized by a striving to blame Russia for everything. After we started a special military operation in Ukraine, the allegations against Moscow have made a “quantum leap”. Among them, allegations related to food security assumed a leading role.
🔸 We regret that our colleagues, Western #UNSC members, did not have enough courage to comment on the root causes of food and other crises in such states as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
🔸 Truth is that you got too carried away by your fruitless efforts to “break the backbone” of Russian economy and isolate our country at any cost. What I am speaking about is that in your proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, you are literally holding the whole developing world as hostage, driving it towards famine. Whatever you may be saying, it is you and only you who can change this.
❗️ Nevertheless, let me assure you that Russia remains a responsible supplier of both food and energy.
👉 I will appreciate if our Western colleagues, first of all the United States and the European Union, today publicly refute this “food for weapons” version which many experts stick to. Also, I invite them to explain how these deliveries actually contribute to global food security that you claim to be so concerned about.
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