⚠️Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to carefully record the facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians and use of residential buildings, schools, kindergartens and other social infrastructure facilities for military purposes by Ukrainian armed groups:

🔹in Kharkov, the nationalists have deployed firing positions and artillery guns in the yards of the apartment blocks located at Astronomicheskaya street. Residents are prohibited to abandon their apartments under the pretext of security.

🔹in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, the militants of Ukrainian nationalist groups have been deployed in the schools №5 and №6, in a music school, in a railroad specialised school, in a chemical-mechanical technical school and in a boarding school, as well as the heavy armament and armoured equipment have been deployed at a compound feed plant;

🔹in Druzhkovka, Donetsk People's Republic, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have deployed a command post in the school №1 (Olesya Gonchara st.), as well as multiple rocket launchers in the apartment blocks located at Sobornaya street, while its residents had been intentionally left without evacuation.

▫️Despite the fact that this criminal action can result in causing victims among civilians, the militants of the Ukrainian armed groups launch deliberate attacks from residential areas at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in order to provoke their counter-attack and to accuse Russian servicemen of the consequences from allegedly indiscriminate attacks.

❗️We reiterate that the units of the Russian Armed Forces treat the civilian population with an exclusive humanity and do not launch attacks at civilian infrastructure facilities during the special military operation.

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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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💥 Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit 37 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 360 nationalists and 49 weapons and military equipment including 1 detection and airspace control radar station in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic.

◽️ Against the backdrop of Kiev's political catastrophe in Mariupol and military failures in Donbass, the Kiev regime, with British financial support, has organised the production of "morale raise" videos for Western and Ukrainian audiences.

🇷🇺 In the rehabilitation and education centre established on the basis of a branch of the Vishnevskyi Hospital in Moscow, certificates on completion of an additional professional training course were awarded to servicemen-participants of the special military operation.

⚠️ Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continue to record the continuing egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev, and use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.

◽️ The Russian Ministry of Defence, based on documents from the fonds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence launches another multimedia section dedicated to the liberation of cities of the Ukrainian SSR from the Nazi invaders - "Stepped into Immortality: Heroic Nikolaev Paratroopers".

📹 The Ministry of Defence continues to publish footage of combat operations of units during the special military operation: combat operation of 152 mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crews, combat operation of signal units. Video of work of multidisciplinary medical facilities deployed in the liberated residential areas of the Lugansk People's Republic has been published.

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On April 13, 2014 Kiev regime kicked off its ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in #Donbass. The fiercest battles of the war were fought between 2014 and 2015. After that, the civil conflict turned into a war of position, but troops and civilians alike continued to die in both Donetsk and Lugansk. The war claimed the lives of over 13,000 people. Check out the key moments of the 8-year conflict ➡ https://india.mid.ru/en/news/war_in_donbass_key_moments_from_eight_year_conflict/

✉️ Vladimir Putin sent greetings to participants, organizers and guests of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum:

🔷 The Forum’s anniversary is taking place at a difficult time for the entire international community. The mistakes of Western countries in economic policy over many years and illegitimate sanctions have led to a wave of global inflation, the disruption of usual supply chains, and a sharp increase in poverty and food shortages.

🔷 I am confident that for Russia the 2020s will become a period when the country strengthens its economic sovereignty, which involves the accelerated development of its infrastructure and technological base, qualitative upgrades in the level of training for specialists, as well as the establishment of an independent and efficient financial system. In addition, the Russian economy will increasingly rely on private initiatives and, of course, will remain committed to transparency and broad international cooperation.

⚠️Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to carefully record the facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians and use of residential buildings, schools, kindergartens and other social infrastructure facilities for military purposes by Ukrainian armed groups:

🔹in Kharkov, the nationalists have deployed firing positions and artillery guns in the yards of the apartment blocks located at Astronomicheskaya street. Residents are prohibited to abandon their apartments under the pretext of security.

🔹in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, the militants of Ukrainian nationalist groups have been deployed in the schools №5 and №6, in a music school, in a railroad specialised school, in a chemical-mechanical technical school and in a boarding school, as well as the heavy armament and armoured equipment have been deployed at a compound feed plant;

🔹in Druzhkovka, Donetsk People's Republic, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have deployed a command post in the school №1 (Olesya Gonchara st.), as well as multiple rocket launchers in the apartment blocks located at Sobornaya street, while its residents had been intentionally left without evacuation.

▫️Despite the fact that this criminal action can result in causing victims among civilians, the militants of the Ukrainian armed groups launch deliberate attacks from residential areas at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in order to provoke their counter-attack and to accuse Russian servicemen of the consequences from allegedly indiscriminate attacks.

❗️We reiterate that the units of the Russian Armed Forces treat the civilian population with an exclusive humanity and do not launch attacks at civilian infrastructure facilities during the special military operation.

➡️ More

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💥 Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation have hit 37 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 360 nationalists and 49 weapons and military equipment including 1 detection and airspace control radar station in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic.

◽️ Against the backdrop of Kiev's political catastrophe in Mariupol and military failures in Donbass, the Kiev regime, with British financial support, has organised the production of "morale raise" videos for Western and Ukrainian audiences.

🇷🇺 In the rehabilitation and education centre established on the basis of a branch of the Vishnevskyi Hospital in Moscow, certificates on completion of an additional professional training course were awarded to servicemen-participants of the special military operation.

⚠️ Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continue to record the continuing egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev, and use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations.

◽️ The Russian Ministry of Defence, based on documents from the fonds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence launches another multimedia section dedicated to the liberation of cities of the Ukrainian SSR from the Nazi invaders - "Stepped into Immortality: Heroic Nikolaev Paratroopers".

📹 The Ministry of Defence continues to publish footage of combat operations of units during the special military operation: combat operation of 152 mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crews, combat operation of signal units. Video of work of multidisciplinary medical facilities deployed in the liberated residential areas of the Lugansk People's Republic has been published.

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🎙 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Rossyia 1 TV channel:

💬 We are seeing attempts to place the responsibility on Russia for developments in the global food market and the growing problems there. I must say that this is another attempt to pin the blame on someone else.

First, the situation with the global food market did not become worse yesterday or even with the launch of Russia’s special military operation. The situation took a downturn in February 2020 during the efforts to counter the pandemic when the global economy was down and had to be revived.

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The second reason was European countries’ short-sighted policies, and above all, the European Commission’s policy in regard to energy.

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Today, on the occasion of 🇷🇺Russian Language Day 🇷🇺 & 223rd birthday of Alexander Pushkin - father of modern Russian language - a group of the Russian compatriots together with Indian scholars & students laid flowers to a #Pushkin monument in #NewDelhi

🇷🇺 National Centre for State Defence Control in Moscow hosts another teleconference of Defence Ministry with the leadership of the Armed Forces, chaired by General of the Army, Sergei Shoigu

Key points🔻

🔹 As for today, 97% of the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic has been liberated.

🔹 Residential areas of Severodonetsk have been fully liberated. The takeover of its industrial zone and neighbouring settlements continues. The offensive in the Popasnaya direction is developing.

🔹51 units of foreign military equipment have been destroyed during the last 10 days of the special military operation.

🔹 In five days, 126 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered, their total number is 6,489 people.

🔹 In Mariupol, water and electricity supply to residential areas is being restored in stages, streets are being cleared and the first social facilities have started to function.

🔹 The Azovstal plant, including its underground facilities, has been completely cleared of mines.

🔹 Berdyansk sea port has started to operate. On behalf of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief they are ready to load grain at these ports.

🔹 The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, Zaporozhye, which can generate up to half of all nuclear power generation capacity of Ukraine, is operating normally.

🔹33 coal mines, 2 oil fields and 14 gas fields taken over by Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics during the special military operation continue to operate normally. The liberated territories are home to 57% of Ukraine's steelmaking capacity.

🔹 While retreating, Ukrainian nationalists seek to cause maximum damage to these industries. In turn, the Russian military, while liberating the Donbass, is taking industry facilities under its protection, thus preserving the potential for the development of the region's economy.

🔹 Joint efforts of the Russian Ministry of Defence and Russian Railways have created conditions for the resumption of full-fledged traffic between Russia, Donbass, Ukraine and Crimea on six railway sections.

🔹 The restoration of transport infrastructure and water supply creates favourable conditions for the development of agricultural sector in the liberated territories.

🔹 More than 27,000 tons of goods have been handed over to civilians.

🔹 During the summer training period, we will pay special attention to new ways of conducting combat operations based on the experience of the special military operation and other armed conflicts, army tactical shooting and first aid on the battlefield.

🔹 47 warships, boats and submarines will take part in the Main Naval Parade to be held in St Petersburg on July 31. Also for the first time, the female crew of the patrol boat Raptor will take part in the parade.

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⚡️Testimonies of local residents and monks in liberated Svyatogorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, confirm that Ukrainian nationalists deliberately set fire to the wooden skete of All Saints' of the Russian Land on June 5.

▫️According to eyewitnesses, as early as June 2, the Ukrainian military arrived at the territory of the Svyatogorsk Historical and Architectural Reserve, located south of the city across the river.

▫️The aim was to survey the area for the placement of artillery positions by the AFU on the high bank where the architectural reserve is located. The equipment of these positions would have allowed direct fire on Russian troops on the other side of the river.

▫️Here, they also planned to defend the bridge over the Seversky Donets River, which had already been blown up by the nationalists on June 6.

▫️Knowing well that Russian servicemen do not shell places of worship and cultural monuments, the Ukrainian nationalists hoped to shield themselves behind the Orthodox shrines of Lavra as their "shield".

▫️The insolence of the Ukrainian nationalists has angered local residents. They demanded that the military withdraw from Lavra to prevent its destruction.

▫️By June 4, during the fighting in Svyatogorsk, the Ukrainian army had already lost control of most of the city.
So the retreating nationalists organised a monstrous provocation.

▫️According to local residents, a large-calibre machine gun mounted on an armoured vehicle set fire to the newly built wooden wooden skete of All Saints' of the Russian Land in 2009 with a burst of incendiary ammunition.

▫️It was not only the monks who tried unsuccessfully to put out the burning skete, but also the members of the local territorial defence who came to help them. The nationalists prevented this by firing intimidating shots.

▫️Despite the hostilities in Svyatogorsk, there has been no damage to historical and Orthodox monuments on the territory of the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra by Russian servicemen.

▫️Footage of the current state of the cultural, historical, architectural and orthodox monument of Svyatogorsk Lavra is brought to everyone's attention.

▫️Thus, Zelensky with his statements about Russia's allegedly conscious destruction of Ukraine's cultural heritage and his demands to expel Russia from UNESCO and the UN for this once again lied not only to the Ukrainian people but also to the entire international community.

❗️The Russian Armed Forces continue the special operation to liberate Donbass, preventing shelling or possible damage to historical and cultural heritage sites.

▫️The values of the Ukrainian Nazis in Kiev are the opposite of the historical values of the Orthodox people of Ukraine.

▫️There is and can be no future for the current Kiev regime's criminal anti-Christian policy in Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 In response to a constantly expanding list of sanctions imposed on Russian politicians and public figures, as well as representatives of Russian business, 61 US nationals have been included in the blacklist: heads of the leading defence corporations, media platforms, rating agencies, aircraft design and shipbuilding companies, as well as a number of officials from the US Department of State involved in planting false stories about “malicious” Russian cyber-attacks.

👉 The names of blacklisted US citizens

The complete list of US nationals who have been banned indefinitely from entering the Russian Federation is published in the dedicated section on the Foreign Ministry website.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Despite record inflation, above all in the fuel and energy sector, Biden does not appear to be losing optimism, at least in public.

On Friday, he made a policy statement about successes of his own economic policy based on labour market indicators.

It is hard to say how convincing this sounds, because gas prices are going up and the amount of cash given by the previous administration during the Covid pandemic is not diminishing. The last time inflation was this high in the United States was back during the global financial and economic crisis triggered by the collapse of the US real estate market in 2007-2008. The rate has soared to 8.6 percent, a 40-year high.

The oil embargo on the biggest energy producer, Russia, is only making a bad situation worse. The United States does not have a way out. Some media are carrying leaks that the The United States is pressing its hydrocarbon giants, including Chevron, to cooperate with Venezuela (Hello Guaido), promising protection from sanctions. All this talk about “the green transition” and “the spirit of Glasgow” seems to be forgotten. US emissaries are chasing after hydrocarbons – oil and gas – all over the world. They first want to get them for themselves and then for the Europeans whom they have dragged into this sanctions vortex. At first, Latin American countries rejoiced at the soaring demand (American oil refineries were selling a record 1.34 million barrels) but now they have reached the limit. Selling more hydrocarbons will only harm their own interests in the fuel and energy sector. Even such close US allies as Columbia won’t do this.

And what about sanctions? Western media are publishing more and more critical articles written by economic strategists in Washington, London and Brussels. The Swedish Dagbladet and even the British Guardian write how useless sanctions have been. They are backfiring, and everything in the EU is now more expensive.

A shattered economy, declining approval ratings for governments, and dubious electoral prospects. They dreamed that this would be Russia’s lot but they miscalculated and sanctions boomeranged, hitting them in a soft spot.

It would seem heavy-handed if it were written as fiction.

📺 Watch the new documentary Foreign Fighters of Donbas based on the stories of the foreign volunteers who risk their lives on a daily basis to protect civilians in #Donbass.

💬 "The Ukrainian nationalists don’t care about the locals. They treat them very badly, like a human shields. They left them there without food or water". These are the words of an Italian volunteer with the codename Spartak. He came to Donbass to protect civilians from the aggression of the Ukrainian army.

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🇷🇺 National Centre for State Defence Control in Moscow hosted another teleconference of Defence Ministry with the leadership of the Armed Forces, chaired by General of the Army, Sergei Shoigu.

🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 At the initiative of the Turkish side, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held telephone conversation with the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Turkey Hulusi Akar.

💥 High-precision air-based missiles have hit 2 command posts, 3 firing positions of artillery batteries, as well as 18 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration. 2 ammunition depots have been destroyed in the areas of Vrubovka and Yakovlevka in Lugansk People's Republic.

💬 Testimonies of local residents and monks in liberated Svyatogorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, confirm that Ukrainian nationalists deliberately set fire to the wooden skete of All Saints' of the Russian Land.

⚠️ Despite acute grain shortages and the threat of a food crisis, Ukrainian armed formations, disregarding the welfare of their own people, continue to use critical grain processing and storage facilities for military purposes.

⚠️ It has been reliably established that fighters of the nationalist battalions, leaving the captured territories and refusing to leave supplies of grain to Mariupol residents, deliberately set fire to a large grain storage facility in the seaport. As a result, more than 50,000 tonnes of grain have been burnt.

📹 Footage of Msta-S self-propelled artillery crews destroying armoured vehicles and fortified positions of AFU and the work of field food supply point have been published.

🚛 Over a day, 642 tonnes of essential goods and food have been delivered to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. Over 22,000 people have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.

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◽️ The Ukrainian grouping in Donbass is suffering significant losses in manpower, weapons and military equipment. During the liberation of Svyatogorsk in Donetsk People's Republic in three days of fighting alone, Ukrainian troops suffered losses of over 300 nationalists, six tanks, 15 armoured combat vehicles of various types, 36 field artillery guns and mortars, 4 Grad multiple rocket launchers and over 20 automotive equipment.

💥 High-precision air-based missiles have hit armoured plant near Kharkov, which have been repairing and restoring tanks and other AFU armoured vehicles. In addition, high-precision air-based missiles have hit 2 command posts, 13 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 1 battery of Uragan multiple-launch rocket systems near Kharkov.

💥 Russian air defence means have shot down 2 MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Snegirevka, Nikolaev Region, as well as 1 Mi-8 helicopter near Belaya Krinitsya, Nikolaev Region. In addition, 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down near Donetsk, Rubtsy, Lozovoe, Krasnorechenskoe, Koroviy Yar, Peski Rad'kovskoe in Donetsk Peolple's Republic, Izyum, Dergachi in Kharkov Region and Chernobaivka in Kherson Region. 3 Tochka-U missiles and 5 Smerch rockets have been intercepted near Chernobaevka, Kherson Region.

☣️ According to reliable information, SSU officers are preparing another provocation with the use of hazardous chemicals. In Sumy, AFU soldiers and fighters from territorial defence units have received chemical defence suits. Training on how to handle a chemical alert is carried out. According to the plan of Kiev's scriptwriters, the Ukrainian armed forces will launch artillery strikes on Russia's border regions from settlements in Sumy Region. Following a staged retaliatory fire attack allegedly carried out by the Russian Armed Forces, members of the Ukrainian security services are planning to spray strong toxic substances in the area of the provocation.

⚠️ Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to record the Kiev regime's criminal actions against civilians, as well as the use of civilian infrastructure by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and militants of Ukrainian nationalist formations for military purposes.

📹 Footage of combat operation of Mi-35 attack helicopter crews of the Western MD’s army aviation during the special military operation and Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile system crews has been published. Footage has been also published of a former pioneer camp found near liberated Krasnyi Liman, which had been used by the Nazis as a command post.

🚛 Over the past 24 hours, 642 tonnes of humanitarian aid have been handed over to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. Over 17,000 people have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donbass republics.

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This video came from 2016. It was the 2nd year of the Kiev's regime punitive operation against people of #Donbass. Kids of the Grey Zone were used to shelling and the fire of machine guns. Instead of playing toys like their peers in Kiev or Lvov they collected bullets from yards and played with mortar shells. Some of them feared thunderstorms more than artillery fire. They had seen no peceful life yet.

Dear friends, the Consular Division of the Embassy has opened online booking for passport services at http://new_delhi.kdmid.ru/.

The applicants without appointments will be attended to on the first-come basis with priority given to visitors with appointments. The Consular Division is opened for visitors every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 A.M. till 2:00 P.M.

On June 9, Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov took part in the discussion on #RussiaIndia relations and the crisis in #Ukraine held at the Vivekananda International Foundation.

💬 Russia's President Vladimir Putin on sovereignty in today's rapidly changing world:

We live in an era of change. Geopolitical, scientific and technological transformations are happening. The world is changing, and it is doing so rapidly.

In order to claim some kind of leadership – any country, any people, any ethnic group should ensure their sovereignty.

Because there is no in-between, no intermediate state: either a country is sovereign, or it is a colony, no matter what the colonies are called.

I am not going to give any examples so as not to offend anyone, but if a country or a group of countries is not able to make sovereign decisions, then it is already a colony to a certain extent. But a colony has no historical prospects, no chance for survival in this tough geopolitical struggle.

(excerpt from President Putin's meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists ahead of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum).