Extermination of the Russian population is ok according to Harry Tabach, the former chief of staff of the NATO military mission in Moscow.

👉🏼 A retired captain of the first rank of the US Navy believes that all means are good to defeat the enemy, so Kiev does not need to be “ashamed” of striking civilians.

He even dares to make a parallel to the dropping of atomic bombs by the Americans on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which served to “extinguish aggression with even greater aggression”.

❗️ Utterly cinical, yet not new. #Kiev began striking the civilian population even before the start of the special military operation, shelling the cities and villages of #Donbass for eight straight years.

⚡️ Ukrainian media: Men of military age in Ukraine are refused medical treatment without a certificate from the mobilisation office.

It mainly concerns planned hospitalisations in public hospitals. In the list of documents to be collected by the patient, military registration is more and more often included. And if there is no such paper, doctors refuse medical care under any pretext.

☝️ Kiev regime continues to turn Ukraine into a country without people.

Excerpts from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement at the UN Security Council meeting, New York, 22 January 2024:

🔹 The Russian Federation has launched a special operation not against Ukraine or the Ukrainian people, but against the criminal regime in Kiev.

🔹 The West is pushing Ukraine with manic persistence to continue the armed confrontation.

🔹 The Kiev regime is "in agony".

🔹 It is clear to most experts that a peaceful settlement in Ukraine is being hindered by the West's support for the Kiev regime/

🔹 The West is carrying out a profitable "business project" in Ukraine for itself, and is also “disposing of junk” from weapons.

🔹 The corrupt Zelensky regime resells some of the weapons supplied by the West on the black market.

🔹 Biden and the British leadership consider the support of Ukraine against the Russian Federation an "excellent investment".

🔹 The West in Ukraine is cynically waging war against Russia, which it wants to "put in its place".

🔹 It’s time for sensible Europeans to wake up and understand that with the help of the Zelensky regime, the United States is not only waging war against the Russian Federation, but is also solving the strategic task of sharply weakening Europe as an economic competitor.

🔹 The United States is deliberately blocking any attempts to conduct an honest investigation into Nord Stream, and the EU has resigned itself to public humiliation.

🔹 Russians and Ukrainians live in Crimea in peace and harmony.

#Lavrov #UNSC #Ukraine

🇷🇺❤️ On January 23, the flame of the family hearth "Heart of Russia" will be lit on the Main Stage of the Russia Exhibition, which will travel to all regions of the country.

The Terentyev family will bring the lamp with the fire from the Holy Trinity Monastery in Murom, where the relics of Saints Peter and Fevronia are kept.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Mikhail and Ekaterina have been married for 25 years and are raising six children. "This year is the 25th anniversary of our life together, it is the most wonderful time in our lives," shared Mikhail Terentyev.

🕊 The Day of Saints Peter and Fevronia (July 8) is the Day of Love, Family and Fidelity that the whole country celebrates. And Murom has long been called the capital of this bright holiday – every year tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims come to the city.

🇷🇺 It is also symbolic that the ceremony will be held during the All-Russian forum "Family – Beloved", which launched the Year of Family, previously announced by President Vladimir Putin.

"Heart of Russia" is a heart-shaped installation in front of which a family hearth will be lit. The ceremony will be attended by family dynasties from all regions of the country, representatives of key sectors of the economy and social sphere.

👉 The Terentyev family will pass the flame to a couple from Crimea who recently celebrated their Ruby Wedding – Pavel and Tatiana Kuznetsovy who have been together for 40 years.

🕊 🕊 From the family hearth flame will be lit in 12 more lamps, which dynasties will deliver to Moscow, the Republic of Crimea, Yakutia, Kuzbass, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Volgograd region, the Komi Republic, DNR, LNR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. Then the fire of the family hearth will be spread to all regions of the country.

#russianvalues #heartofrussia

⚠️ NATO has started its biggest military exercise in decades.

It will last for 4 months and around 90,000 troops will participate in the drill, rehearsing how U.S. troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia if a conflict were to flare up with a “near-peer” adversary.

☝️ NATO is back to the Cold War schemes and mindset (was it ever over?), and insisting on resolving everything with force, bullying their way through the world.

❓So, who is threatening who?

⚡️ Media: Italian Lieutenant Colonel Claudio Castilla has been eliminated in Ukraine.

👉 The ANB, National Association of Bersaglieri, expressed condolences, to his family, all the Bersaglieri and the colleagues of the NATO Command.”

Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, vehemently rejects the reports that the high-ranking officer was killed in Ukraine.

❌ And we of course sincerely do not believe him, given the elimination of dozens of French mercenaries in Kharkov a week ago - the fact which French officials also tried to deny, however unconvincingly.

☝️ Castilla belonged to the bersaglieri (“sharpshooters”) troops which participated in hostilities in Donbass during in 1942 as Nazi allies. Some regiments of the bersaglieri expedition corps even had Ukrainian trident on their emblems. In Dec 1942, they suffered a crushing defeat from the Red Army, and were later withdrawn.

🌐 Events within the World Youth Festival 2024 (Part I)

One of the important events of the WYF programme will be the educational marathon Znanie. The Firsts*.

For 5️⃣ days it will be held by representatives of the Russian «Znanie» Society at several venues of the Festival.

❓What awaits young guests from all over the world?

👉 Lectures, master classes, round tables and interviews with the eminent statesmen, distinguished scientists, sportsmen, recognized figures of culture and art.

* - Znanie means “knowledge” in the Russian language

#WYF #Youth #Russia

📹FM Sergey Lavrov’s address on Russia’s CIS chairmanship in 2024 (January 23, 2024)

💬 From January 1, 2024, Russia took up the chairmanship of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

• The Chairmanship Concept, adopted by the President of the Russia, outlines our priorities for further cooperation within the CIS. <...>

• We plan to pay special attention to deepening economic interaction, above all, in food and energy security, as well as in industrial cooperation, transport and logistics, the environment, innovation, and digital transformation.

• At the same time, our guiding principle will be the interconnectivity of the economies of the CIS states and the Eurasian Economic Union <...>.

• Naturally, against the backdrop of global instability and increased tensions along the CIS external borders, issues of ensuring security in all dimensions will be on the agenda. <...>

• Our attention will also focus on the task of improving foreign policy coordination. The development of joint political statements on relevant international and regional issues has become a good tradition. <...>

• Plans call for an expansion of cultural and humanitarian ties as a key area of work within the CIS. <...>

• We value the solidarity of the CIS countries in the fight against the glorification of Nazism and the falsification of history. We will continue with our joint efforts to defend the truth about our common past. <...>

• We are going to pay a great deal of attention to improving the image of the CIS on the global stage and developing its contacts with friendly organisations <...>

☝️The CIS continues to make a major contribution to the strengthening of stability in the Eurasian space and to promoting wide regional cooperation.

🇷🇺 Russia intends to conduct active work to further improve its authority as a representative and efficient dialogue and cooperation platform. We will continue to develop multilateral cooperation with our partners based on the principles of equality, mutual respect and neighbourliness.

#CIS2024

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with CBS TV channel (New York, January 22, 2024)

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💬 Anybody who is sincerely interested in justice, including justice being established in the relations between Russia and Ukraine, which would involve, of course, stopping the Western policy of using Ukraine as an instrument of war against Russia, we would be ready to listen.

• We are fighting for our national legitimate interests, for the interests of the security of our country. It’s just on our borders, not as Iraq was announced a threat to the United States, it's 10,000 miles from American shores. <...> In our case, it was not across the ocean, it was just on our borders that NATO military infrastructure was built, aimed at the Russian Federation.

• Whenever you talk to the United States and they mention democracy, you tell them, okay, democracy as you understand is that you dictate to each and every country what kind of political system they must have inside. What about democracy in international relations? They're not interested at all.

• Ukrainian Army with American, French, British, Czech Republic weapons, in the past few weeks continued to deliberately target civilian aims, destroyed dozens of civilian sites, and killed dozens of civilians, including kids and women. <...> I am sure that objective media outlets like CBS would not just leave this unnoticed.

• Unless we insist on the creation of the Palestinian state on the basis of the United Nations decisions, this anger which has been present in Palestinian lives for decades and generation after generation, would reproduce more generations who would feel that they have been abandoned and they have been cheated upon.

• We certainly have to raise our voice not to allow pushing out Palestinians from their land and of course not to allow this land to turn into unlivable space.

Trying (and fumbling) to explain the unexplainable - the presence of many French mercenaries in Ukrainian military - and testifying on the whole issue of mercenarism, French officials became completely confused, though Paris has a wealth of experience in this sphere. So, here's a recap of facts as regards mercenarism, the French legal system and real life practice. 👇

Mercenarism, specifically, the involvement of an individual in a military conflict on the side of a foreign state, of which one is not a national, in exchange for remuneration, is banned in France under Law No 2003-340 of April 14, 2003. Under Article 436-1 of the Criminal Code this crime is punishable by the imprisonment of up to 5 years and a fine of 75,000 euros. French legislation stipulates even tougher penalties for establishing and/or managing an organisation that recruits, hires, equips and trains mercenaries: a prison sentence of up to 7 years and a fine of 100,000 euros.

However, if we take a closer look at the above-mentioned Article 436-1, we will see that French legislators have provided some mitigating circumstances for “holidaymakers” or “volunteers.”

First, according to French legislation, those engaged in combat operations (even on paper only) are not considered mercenaries unless they receive remuneration that exceeds specific pay grades in the armed forces of the country on whose side they fight. Second, Ukrainians leaving France for Ukraine in order to take part in the conflict, including those discharged from the Foreign Legion, are not listed as mercenaries, even if they have French citizenship because this status does not apply to citizens of a country that is party to an armed conflict.

Additionally, military support functions are often delegated to “expendable” fly-by-night private military companies recruiting lower rank military personnel on the spot. This scheme is also actively used in Ukraine. Quite often, mercenaries from among former Foreign Legion service personnel, citizens of the relevant countries, act as instructors. The fact that numerous former legionaries are listed in specific HR databases makes it easier to set up and use “expendable” private military companies for accomplishing possible combat missions involving armed clashes.

Here are just a few petty cunning ploys used by France that since the colonial era has become adept at fomenting conflicts in various parts of the world.