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🇷🇺#Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova, March 4, 2021:
✅#Lavrov
✅#Ukraine
✅#Estonia
✅#RussiaHelps
✅#US
✅#EuropeanUnion
✅#France
✅#Canada
✅#UnitedNations
✅#RussiaAfrica
...and more 👉 is.gd/62C1iO
✅#Lavrov
✅#Ukraine
✅#Estonia
✅#RussiaHelps
✅#US
✅#EuropeanUnion
✅#France
✅#Canada
✅#UnitedNations
✅#RussiaAfrica
...and more 👉 is.gd/62C1iO
#OTD in 1968, 53 years ago, Massacre of Songmy took place - a mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians committed by #US troops. This atrocious war crime became one of the most shocking ones after WWII - it claimed lives of 504 innocent people, 210 of them were children: 50 — below the age of 3, 69 — from 4 to 7 years old, 91 — from 8 to 12 years old.
Only one US officer was convicted for committing this crime - William Calley, yet he was pardoned after serving three years of house arrest
Only one US officer was convicted for committing this crime - William Calley, yet he was pardoned after serving three years of house arrest
President #Putin: The #US is the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons, moreover, against a non-nuclear state - #Japan. From military, strategic standpoint it was senseless. It was a massacre against civilians
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Президент России В.В.Путин: Соединенные Штаты - единственная страна в мире, которая применила ядерное оружие, причем против неядерного государства: против Японии. Никакого, абсолютно никакого военного смысла в этом не было. Это было прямое истребление гражданского населения
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Президент России В.В.Путин: Соединенные Штаты - единственная страна в мире, которая применила ядерное оружие, причем против неядерного государства: против Японии. Никакого, абсолютно никакого военного смысла в этом не было. Это было прямое истребление гражданского населения
#OTD in 1999 - on the day #NATO started bombing Yugoslavia – Prime Minister of #Russia, Yevgeny #Primakov, cancelled his official visit to #US by making the historic U-turn over the Atlantic when he had learned about the US aggression. This came down in history as #PrimakovLoop
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24 марта 1999 года, в день, когда НАТО начало бомбардировку Югославию, Председатель Правительства Российской Федерации Е.М.Примаков, узнав об агрессии США, отменил свой официальный визит в США, совершив исторический "разворот над Атлантикой". Этот разворот вошел в историю как "Петля Примакова"
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24 марта 1999 года, в день, когда НАТО начало бомбардировку Югославию, Председатель Правительства Российской Федерации Е.М.Примаков, узнав об агрессии США, отменил свой официальный визит в США, совершив исторический "разворот над Атлантикой". Этот разворот вошел в историю как "Петля Примакова"
#OTD in 1945, US A-bombed the city of #Hiroshima, full of civilians, incl women & children. This criminal act had no military significance, as #Japan was already doomed to a defeat. To this day, the #US remains the only country to ever use nuclear weapon.
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В этот день в 1945 г. Соединенные Штаты подвергли атомной бомбардировке г.Хиросима со всеми мирными жителями, женщинами и детьми. Этот преступный шаг не имел никакого военного значения, поскольку Япония была уже обречена на поражение. До сегодняшнего дня США остаются единственной страной в мире, применившей ядерное оружие.
#HiroshimaDay
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В этот день в 1945 г. Соединенные Штаты подвергли атомной бомбардировке г.Хиросима со всеми мирными жителями, женщинами и детьми. Этот преступный шаг не имел никакого военного значения, поскольку Япония была уже обречена на поражение. До сегодняшнего дня США остаются единственной страной в мире, применившей ядерное оружие.
#HiroshimaDay
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#OTD in 1945, the Allied nations (#USSR, #US, #UK, #France) held a historic joint military parade in Berlin to mark the Victory over Nazism. History must not be rewritten! #WeRemember that we fought, won and saved the world together.
Watch the video footage of Allies' joint parade on 7 September 1945. This alone serves as an irrefutable proof that we fought on the same side against the universal evil that is Nazism.
#CommonHistory #WWII
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7 сентября 1945 года страны Антигитлеровской коалиции (#СССР, #США, #Великобритания, #Франция) провели исторический совместный парад в Берлине в честь Победы над нацизмом. История не должна быть переписана! #МыПомним, что мы сражались, победили и спасли мир вместе.
Предлагаем вашему вниманию видео парада 7 сентября 1945 года. Одни эти кадры хроники служат неопровержимым доказательством, что против вселенского зла, коим нацизм и является, мы сражались плечом к плечу.
#ОбщаяИстория #ВОВ
Watch the video footage of Allies' joint parade on 7 September 1945. This alone serves as an irrefutable proof that we fought on the same side against the universal evil that is Nazism.
#CommonHistory #WWII
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7 сентября 1945 года страны Антигитлеровской коалиции (#СССР, #США, #Великобритания, #Франция) провели исторический совместный парад в Берлине в честь Победы над нацизмом. История не должна быть переписана! #МыПомним, что мы сражались, победили и спасли мир вместе.
Предлагаем вашему вниманию видео парада 7 сентября 1945 года. Одни эти кадры хроники служат неопровержимым доказательством, что против вселенского зла, коим нацизм и является, мы сражались плечом к плечу.
#ОбщаяИстория #ВОВ
#Biden tells #US allies that #Russia can attack #Ukraine on 16 February, says Politico.
It looks more like US President is warning the allies of the date of possible US-masterminded provocation with the use of military force in Ukraine.
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Дж. #Байден сообщил союзникам, что #Россия может напасть на Украину 16 февраля, передает издание Politico.
Больше похоже на то, что президент #США предупреждает союзников, называя дату возможной задуманной США вооруженной провокации на Украине.
It looks more like US President is warning the allies of the date of possible US-masterminded provocation with the use of military force in Ukraine.
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Дж. #Байден сообщил союзникам, что #Россия может напасть на Украину 16 февраля, передает издание Politico.
Больше похоже на то, что президент #США предупреждает союзников, называя дату возможной задуманной США вооруженной провокации на Украине.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, September 5, 2023)
🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 The use of Western weapons in Ukraine for attacking civilian facilities
🔷 US State Department Global Engagement Centre’s new bulletin, "The Kremlin's War Against Ukraine’s Children"
🔷 Attack on the Acting Russian Consul-General in Gothenburg
And more...
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#Ukraine
▪️ I often talk about this, but today I will show you several fragments of NATO munitions we have received from the Defence Ministry of Russia. These horrible “postcards” are designed for those in the EU and NATO countries who believe that their taxes and free donations serve the cause of peace. Look at them. There’s children’s blood on them, the blood of innocent civilians. These munitions were bought, produced and transported with the money of people in the EU countries who talk about peace every day and believe that this is important. Is the EU paying for this kind of peace? Is this the peace that EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell regards as ideal? Is this the peace the Western NGOs and media organisations are talking about?
#US
▪️ On August 24, the Global Engagement Centre at the US Department of State published a bulletin, The Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine’s Children, which contains a streak of absurd accusations against Russia relating to the issue of children. This is not just a piece of rampant misinformation distorting facts; it is in fact a terrible Goebbels-style fake narrative. Russia has never hidden what it has been doing in the interests of Ukrainian children who ended up in our territory. On behalf of President Vladimir Putin, most of the work in this area is being carried out by Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, who regularly reports to the public, including the international community, on the situation regarding children evacuated from the war zone.
🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 The use of Western weapons in Ukraine for attacking civilian facilities
🔷 US State Department Global Engagement Centre’s new bulletin, "The Kremlin's War Against Ukraine’s Children"
🔷 Attack on the Acting Russian Consul-General in Gothenburg
And more...
📚 Read in full
#Ukraine
▪️ I often talk about this, but today I will show you several fragments of NATO munitions we have received from the Defence Ministry of Russia. These horrible “postcards” are designed for those in the EU and NATO countries who believe that their taxes and free donations serve the cause of peace. Look at them. There’s children’s blood on them, the blood of innocent civilians. These munitions were bought, produced and transported with the money of people in the EU countries who talk about peace every day and believe that this is important. Is the EU paying for this kind of peace? Is this the peace that EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell regards as ideal? Is this the peace the Western NGOs and media organisations are talking about?
#US
▪️ On August 24, the Global Engagement Centre at the US Department of State published a bulletin, The Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine’s Children, which contains a streak of absurd accusations against Russia relating to the issue of children. This is not just a piece of rampant misinformation distorting facts; it is in fact a terrible Goebbels-style fake narrative. Russia has never hidden what it has been doing in the interests of Ukrainian children who ended up in our territory. On behalf of President Vladimir Putin, most of the work in this area is being carried out by Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, who regularly reports to the public, including the international community, on the situation regarding children evacuated from the war zone.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, December 12, 2023)
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 International Day of Neutrality
🔹 Sweden’s assistance to Nazi Germany and Ukraine
🔹 President of Finland’s statements
🔹 Danish Ambassador Jacob Henningsen’s interview
🔹 Nazi marches and the glorification of Nazis in Europe
🔹 Dismantling the Soviet Army monument in Sofia
🔹 Day of Remembrance of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty
🔹 Kiev regime’s repression against Gonzalo Lira Lopez, an American-Chilian journalist
and more...
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#Ukraine
• This far-fetched effort to support the Russian language scared neo-Nazi MPs to the extent that they drafted an even harsher law targeting the Russian language, and the Verkhovna Rada approved it on December 8, 2023. Vladimir Zelensky signed it the same day.
They have demonstrated all this haste in their legislative efforts not because they care for ethnic minority rights so much but because of their misguided belief that this document will create a pathway for the Kiev regime to achieve its coveted goal of joining the EU.
• If the European Union does not object to the adoption of this law in Ukraine that is not only discriminatory but is designed to eliminate the mother tongue used by millions of people, and an official UN language, it will show its true face, demonstrating that it could not care less about the democratic principles, humanitarian values, fundamental rights and freedoms of ethnic minorities.
#US
• The US and its European allies have been consistently destroying the system of international security, understood as a set of treaties and institutions. They have not supported any of our substantive initiatives.
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 International Day of Neutrality
🔹 Sweden’s assistance to Nazi Germany and Ukraine
🔹 President of Finland’s statements
🔹 Danish Ambassador Jacob Henningsen’s interview
🔹 Nazi marches and the glorification of Nazis in Europe
🔹 Dismantling the Soviet Army monument in Sofia
🔹 Day of Remembrance of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty
🔹 Kiev regime’s repression against Gonzalo Lira Lopez, an American-Chilian journalist
and more...
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📺 Watch
#Ukraine
• This far-fetched effort to support the Russian language scared neo-Nazi MPs to the extent that they drafted an even harsher law targeting the Russian language, and the Verkhovna Rada approved it on December 8, 2023. Vladimir Zelensky signed it the same day.
They have demonstrated all this haste in their legislative efforts not because they care for ethnic minority rights so much but because of their misguided belief that this document will create a pathway for the Kiev regime to achieve its coveted goal of joining the EU.
• If the European Union does not object to the adoption of this law in Ukraine that is not only discriminatory but is designed to eliminate the mother tongue used by millions of people, and an official UN language, it will show its true face, demonstrating that it could not care less about the democratic principles, humanitarian values, fundamental rights and freedoms of ethnic minorities.
#US
• The US and its European allies have been consistently destroying the system of international security, understood as a set of treaties and institutions. They have not supported any of our substantive initiatives.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine and an open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question,” (New York, January 24, 2024)
Key talking points:
• Terrorist attack by the Kiev regime on Il-76 plane
• Middle East
• Prospects of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement
• Ukraine
• Double standards of Western media
• Russia-US relations
• Nuclear security
• Korean Peninsula
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am compelled to begin by stating yet another fact of the Kiev regime’s use of terrorist methods.
A terrorist attack was perpetrated on January 24, at 11:15 am Moscow time, resulting in the downing of a Russian Il-76 cargo plane in the Belgorod Region. The aircraft was en route from the Moscow Region to Belgorod, carrying 65 prisoners from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Three Russian officers and a crew of six people accompanied them. All of them died. The Ukrainian prisoners of war were being taken to the Belgorod Region for a prisoner exchange agreed between Moscow and Kiev.
Instead, Ukraine targeted this aircraft from the Kharkov Region using surface-to-air missiles, causing a fatal strike. <...>
#US #MiddleEast
As for the present crisis, everyone seems to have a similar understanding of the consequences of US policy in the region. None of the reckless attempts Washington has engaged in over the last few decades to defend its “core security interests” ten thousand miles across the Atlantic led to a situation where people’s lives improved in a country that the US attacked.
#US #Santions
They should not assume that just because they are strong, because they have the dollar, they can use it to “strangle” others: disconnect them from the SWIFT system or deny them access to the IMF and World Bank loans at whim. The US actually invented the system and made the world accept it.
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Key talking points:
• Terrorist attack by the Kiev regime on Il-76 plane
• Middle East
• Prospects of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement
• Ukraine
• Double standards of Western media
• Russia-US relations
• Nuclear security
• Korean Peninsula
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am compelled to begin by stating yet another fact of the Kiev regime’s use of terrorist methods.
A terrorist attack was perpetrated on January 24, at 11:15 am Moscow time, resulting in the downing of a Russian Il-76 cargo plane in the Belgorod Region. The aircraft was en route from the Moscow Region to Belgorod, carrying 65 prisoners from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Three Russian officers and a crew of six people accompanied them. All of them died. The Ukrainian prisoners of war were being taken to the Belgorod Region for a prisoner exchange agreed between Moscow and Kiev.
Instead, Ukraine targeted this aircraft from the Kharkov Region using surface-to-air missiles, causing a fatal strike. <...>
#US #MiddleEast
As for the present crisis, everyone seems to have a similar understanding of the consequences of US policy in the region. None of the reckless attempts Washington has engaged in over the last few decades to defend its “core security interests” ten thousand miles across the Atlantic led to a situation where people’s lives improved in a country that the US attacked.
#US #Santions
They should not assume that just because they are strong, because they have the dollar, they can use it to “strangle” others: disconnect them from the SWIFT system or deny them access to the IMF and World Bank loans at whim. The US actually invented the system and made the world accept it.
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🎙 Interview of Russia's President Vladimir Putin to TV host and Rossiya Segodnya Director General Dmitry Kiselev (March 13, 2024):
Key talking points
💬 Russia is not at the crossroads. It is on the strategic path of its development and will not deviate from its path.
#MultipolarWorld
• Many people in the world are looking at us, at what is happening in our country and in our struggle for our interests. <...> They associate our struggle for our independence and true sovereignty with their aspirations for their own sovereignty and independent development.
• This is aggravated by the fact that there is a very strong desire in Western elites to freeze the current unjust state of affairs in international affairs. They've spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must realise that the vampire ball is ending.
#Ukraine
• Are we ready to negotiate? We are. But we are not ready for talks that are based on some kind of ”wishful thinking“, but we are ready for talks based on the realities that have developed on the ground.
• We are open to a serious discussion, and we are eager to resolve all conflicts by peaceful means. However, we must be sure that this is not just another pause that the enemy wants to use for rearmament, but rather a serious conversation with security guarantees for Russia.
#US #RussiaUS
• We know what it is to have American troops on Russian soil. They are interventionists. That is how we will treat them even if they appear in the territory of Ukraine.
• I have said many times that it [achieving the goals of the special military operation & resolving the conflict] is a matter of life and death for us, while for them it is a matter of improving their tactical position in the world on the whole as well as maintaining their status among their allies in Europe in particular.
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Key talking points
💬 Russia is not at the crossroads. It is on the strategic path of its development and will not deviate from its path.
#MultipolarWorld
• Many people in the world are looking at us, at what is happening in our country and in our struggle for our interests. <...> They associate our struggle for our independence and true sovereignty with their aspirations for their own sovereignty and independent development.
• This is aggravated by the fact that there is a very strong desire in Western elites to freeze the current unjust state of affairs in international affairs. They've spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must realise that the vampire ball is ending.
#Ukraine
• Are we ready to negotiate? We are. But we are not ready for talks that are based on some kind of ”wishful thinking“, but we are ready for talks based on the realities that have developed on the ground.
• We are open to a serious discussion, and we are eager to resolve all conflicts by peaceful means. However, we must be sure that this is not just another pause that the enemy wants to use for rearmament, but rather a serious conversation with security guarantees for Russia.
#US #RussiaUS
• We know what it is to have American troops on Russian soil. They are interventionists. That is how we will treat them even if they appear in the territory of Ukraine.
• I have said many times that it [achieving the goals of the special military operation & resolving the conflict] is a matter of life and death for us, while for them it is a matter of improving their tactical position in the world on the whole as well as maintaining their status among their allies in Europe in particular.
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🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (July 12, 2024)
🔹 Outcomes of NATO summit in Washington, D.C.
🔹 US President’s remarks at the NATO summit
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime's war crimes
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Korean Peninsula
🔹 Japan’s new anti-Russia steps
🔹 The establishment of the Alliance of Sahel States
🔹 The activity of the Emergency Youth Aid public organisation
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#Ukraine #NATO
Ultimately, Kiev was promised an irreversible path to the alliance. I’m not sure what they have in mind when they say irreversible path. The only image this term conjures up is a road that leads to a precipice. Now, in order to make sense of what they are talking about, they have come up with another term for the irreversible path to the alliance and call it a bridge to the alliance. Truth be told, its length has yet to be determined. However, I will reveal a military secret for the Kiev regime to be aware of what it is about: it is indeed a bridge to NATO, but it’s a drawbridge any way you look at it.
#US
It is nobody’s business other than the US Department of State. But the other countries’ foreign ministries should be concerned with what President Biden said at the NATO summit. He did not speak about America’s domestic issues or the summit’s agenda but about global issues that concern absolutely all nations. The reaction of the international community, which became public knowledge several hours after Biden’s press statements, is indicative.
It was that reaction that made top news as the outcome of the NATO summit.
The US State Department and Administration probably thought that it would be seen as proof of Biden’s competence and competitiveness as a presidential candidate. But it turned out differently. They have only made matters worse, especially after President Biden called Putin the president of Ukraine and said that “Vice-President Trump” was qualified to be president.
#Armenia
Russia has never made its friends or partners choose between being “with us” and “against us.” This is contrary to our philosophy. Unlike this, the Western countries show unrestrained impudence and complete disregard for the interests and concerns of their strategic dialogue partners, present or future.
The Americans are motivated by self-interest, which is evident from their hitherto unseen active enthusiasm about looking after Armenia. The country has gone through difficult periods many times before. Why wasn’t the US showing generosity, helping, or offering Armenia opportunities?
🔹 Outcomes of NATO summit in Washington, D.C.
🔹 US President’s remarks at the NATO summit
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime's war crimes
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Korean Peninsula
🔹 Japan’s new anti-Russia steps
🔹 The establishment of the Alliance of Sahel States
🔹 The activity of the Emergency Youth Aid public organisation
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#Ukraine #NATO
Ultimately, Kiev was promised an irreversible path to the alliance. I’m not sure what they have in mind when they say irreversible path. The only image this term conjures up is a road that leads to a precipice. Now, in order to make sense of what they are talking about, they have come up with another term for the irreversible path to the alliance and call it a bridge to the alliance. Truth be told, its length has yet to be determined. However, I will reveal a military secret for the Kiev regime to be aware of what it is about: it is indeed a bridge to NATO, but it’s a drawbridge any way you look at it.
#US
It is nobody’s business other than the US Department of State. But the other countries’ foreign ministries should be concerned with what President Biden said at the NATO summit. He did not speak about America’s domestic issues or the summit’s agenda but about global issues that concern absolutely all nations. The reaction of the international community, which became public knowledge several hours after Biden’s press statements, is indicative.
It was that reaction that made top news as the outcome of the NATO summit.
The US State Department and Administration probably thought that it would be seen as proof of Biden’s competence and competitiveness as a presidential candidate. But it turned out differently. They have only made matters worse, especially after President Biden called Putin the president of Ukraine and said that “Vice-President Trump” was qualified to be president.
#Armenia
Russia has never made its friends or partners choose between being “with us” and “against us.” This is contrary to our philosophy. Unlike this, the Western countries show unrestrained impudence and complete disregard for the interests and concerns of their strategic dialogue partners, present or future.
The Americans are motivated by self-interest, which is evident from their hitherto unseen active enthusiasm about looking after Armenia. The country has gone through difficult periods many times before. Why wasn’t the US showing generosity, helping, or offering Armenia opportunities?