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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine
📍 New York, January 22, 2024
Key talking points:
💬 The vast majority of unbiased experts clearly see that the West's continuing support for the Kiev regime is the key factor that is preventing a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine crisis. Support is provided despite its obvious agony and inability to fulfil the goal of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia that was dictated to it by its higher ups, or, as they started saying recently, of at least degrading my country.
• Despite the complete failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield, the Western patrons of the Kiev regime continue to push it, like maniacs, to continue this meaningless military confrontation.
☝️ We were forced to start the military operation against a criminal regime that went too far, emboldened by impunity, and was unwilling, despite our numerous efforts over many years, to say no to the war against its own citizens in southern and southeastern Ukraine and its policy of total discrimination against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, who are still the majority in that country.
• It is surely time for Europeans – I am addressing sane Europeans – to wake up and understand that with the help of Vladimir Zelensky’s regime, the US is not only waging a war against Russia, but also pursuing the strategic objective of sharply weakening Europe as an economic rival.
• Let me remind you that we have never renounced peaceful methods and have always been ready for negotiations.
❗️ The majority of people in Ukraine are beginning to realise who their real enemy is and who has been misleading them for years by demonising Russia, spreading lies about it, and “cancelling” our shared history.
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📍 New York, January 22, 2024
Key talking points:
💬 The vast majority of unbiased experts clearly see that the West's continuing support for the Kiev regime is the key factor that is preventing a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine crisis. Support is provided despite its obvious agony and inability to fulfil the goal of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia that was dictated to it by its higher ups, or, as they started saying recently, of at least degrading my country.
• Despite the complete failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield, the Western patrons of the Kiev regime continue to push it, like maniacs, to continue this meaningless military confrontation.
☝️ We were forced to start the military operation against a criminal regime that went too far, emboldened by impunity, and was unwilling, despite our numerous efforts over many years, to say no to the war against its own citizens in southern and southeastern Ukraine and its policy of total discrimination against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, who are still the majority in that country.
• It is surely time for Europeans – I am addressing sane Europeans – to wake up and understand that with the help of Vladimir Zelensky’s regime, the US is not only waging a war against Russia, but also pursuing the strategic objective of sharply weakening Europe as an economic rival.
• Let me remind you that we have never renounced peaceful methods and have always been ready for negotiations.
❗️ The majority of people in Ukraine are beginning to realise who their real enemy is and who has been misleading them for years by demonising Russia, spreading lies about it, and “cancelling” our shared history.
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At the Russian Family Forum, President Vladimir Putin kicked off the Year of the Family in Russia 🇷🇺
🎙 Vladimir Putin:
🔹 Yesterday I signed a decree on the status of a large family. I can say without any doubt that a large family is the backbone of the country.
🔹 We believe that traditional values, as well as the aspirations of peoples for true freedom and sovereignty, will serve as a support for the formation of a multipolar world.
🔹 Any difficulties can be overcome if a huge country like ours is united.
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#UnitedRussia #FamilyValues
🎙 Vladimir Putin:
🔹 Yesterday I signed a decree on the status of a large family. I can say without any doubt that a large family is the backbone of the country.
🔹 We believe that traditional values, as well as the aspirations of peoples for true freedom and sovereignty, will serve as a support for the formation of a multipolar world.
🔹 Any difficulties can be overcome if a huge country like ours is united.
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#UnitedRussia #FamilyValues
⚡️⚡️ Yet another terrorist attack by the criminal Kiev regime.
Today, at 11:15 AM the Armed Forces of Ukraine downed an aircraft of the Russian military transport aviation.
❗️ Onboard the plane, there were 6 crew members, 3 escorts and 65 Ukrainian POWs who were being taken to Belgorod for exchange. No one survived.
Ukraine military struck the aircraft from Liptsy, Kharkov region, with an anti-aircraft missile. Russia’s aerospace forces detected the launch.
Ukrainian leadership was well aware that the Russian Ilyushin Il-76 was transporting Ukrainians, yet it didn’t stop it from this inhumane and cynical move designed with a view to accuse Russia of killing the prisoners of war.
👉🏼 Once the plane crash was reported, Ukrainian news agencies and social media channels celebrated the attack as perpetrated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but rushed to edit their stories, when it turned out there were Ukrainian POWs onboard.
Today, at 11:15 AM the Armed Forces of Ukraine downed an aircraft of the Russian military transport aviation.
❗️ Onboard the plane, there were 6 crew members, 3 escorts and 65 Ukrainian POWs who were being taken to Belgorod for exchange. No one survived.
Ukraine military struck the aircraft from Liptsy, Kharkov region, with an anti-aircraft missile. Russia’s aerospace forces detected the launch.
Ukrainian leadership was well aware that the Russian Ilyushin Il-76 was transporting Ukrainians, yet it didn’t stop it from this inhumane and cynical move designed with a view to accuse Russia of killing the prisoners of war.
👉🏼 Once the plane crash was reported, Ukrainian news agencies and social media channels celebrated the attack as perpetrated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but rushed to edit their stories, when it turned out there were Ukrainian POWs onboard.
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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the destruction of a Russian Il-76 military transport
💬 On the morning of January 24, the Kiev regime committed another terrorist act by downing a Russian Il-76 military transport plane near the village of Yablonovo in the Korochansky District, Belgorod Region. It was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs for an agreed-upon exchange. All of them, as well as six crew members and three Russian officers on board the plane were killed.
❗️ The plane was hit by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system from the village of Liptsy in the Kharkov Region.
This is yet another atrocity committed by Zelensky’s criminal regime. Immediately after the plane went down, they made a misanthropic statement about the victory of the “valiant Armed Forces of Ukraine.” However, the office on Bankovaya Street changed its rhetoric as soon as it became known that the plane was carrying Ukrainian servicemen to an exchange site. They then began denying their involvement in the crash.
☝️ Kiev was well aware of the planned exchange. It also knew how the POWs were to be moved and by what route. The attack against the plane was a deliberate act. This terrorist act clearly demonstrates the Kiev regime’s inability to negotiate.
This is not the first cruel murder of Ukrainian POWs by the Zelensky junta. On July 29, 2022, the Banderites fired a missile at the penal colony in Yelenovka (DPR) where militants from the Azov battalion had been held captive. Over 50 people were killed and more than 70 wounded.
‼️ We resolutely condemn the Kiev regime’s terrorist act in the Belgorod Region. All those involved, including the organisers and executors from the Ukrainian military and civilian officials will be identified and held responsibly under Russian law.
This action shows once again the criminal nature of the neo-Nazi dictatorship in Kiev. Its leaders are indifferent to human life. They treat people as “expendable material” and kill them on orders from their Western bosses with Western-supplied arms.
It is perfectly obvious that the Zelensky criminal regime, nurtured by the US and its NATO satellites, poses a substantial threat not only to Russia but also to Ukraine, its ordinary citizens and the rest of the world. Being in agony, this regime can commit the most heinous atrocities.
👉 We believe international organisations, national governments and the world public must denounce this terrorist act and other crimes committed by the Kiev regime. Silence can only mean support for the regime’s barbarous nature and terrorist actions.
💬 On the morning of January 24, the Kiev regime committed another terrorist act by downing a Russian Il-76 military transport plane near the village of Yablonovo in the Korochansky District, Belgorod Region. It was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs for an agreed-upon exchange. All of them, as well as six crew members and three Russian officers on board the plane were killed.
❗️ The plane was hit by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system from the village of Liptsy in the Kharkov Region.
This is yet another atrocity committed by Zelensky’s criminal regime. Immediately after the plane went down, they made a misanthropic statement about the victory of the “valiant Armed Forces of Ukraine.” However, the office on Bankovaya Street changed its rhetoric as soon as it became known that the plane was carrying Ukrainian servicemen to an exchange site. They then began denying their involvement in the crash.
☝️ Kiev was well aware of the planned exchange. It also knew how the POWs were to be moved and by what route. The attack against the plane was a deliberate act. This terrorist act clearly demonstrates the Kiev regime’s inability to negotiate.
This is not the first cruel murder of Ukrainian POWs by the Zelensky junta. On July 29, 2022, the Banderites fired a missile at the penal colony in Yelenovka (DPR) where militants from the Azov battalion had been held captive. Over 50 people were killed and more than 70 wounded.
‼️ We resolutely condemn the Kiev regime’s terrorist act in the Belgorod Region. All those involved, including the organisers and executors from the Ukrainian military and civilian officials will be identified and held responsibly under Russian law.
This action shows once again the criminal nature of the neo-Nazi dictatorship in Kiev. Its leaders are indifferent to human life. They treat people as “expendable material” and kill them on orders from their Western bosses with Western-supplied arms.
It is perfectly obvious that the Zelensky criminal regime, nurtured by the US and its NATO satellites, poses a substantial threat not only to Russia but also to Ukraine, its ordinary citizens and the rest of the world. Being in agony, this regime can commit the most heinous atrocities.
👉 We believe international organisations, national governments and the world public must denounce this terrorist act and other crimes committed by the Kiev regime. Silence can only mean support for the regime’s barbarous nature and terrorist actions.
Ukrainians with Russian passports will lose their Ukrainian citizenship.
👉 This is according to a bill registered in the Ukrainian Parliament on 22 January. It’s one of the points of the future law on multiple citizenship announced by Pres Zelensky.
The document will also allow passports to be issued to ethnic Ukrainians from other states (but not to Russian citizens), as well as to foreign mercenaries acting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
❗️ Criminal Zelensky has almost exterminated the male population of his country, so now he is desperately seeking for fresh blood.
👉 This is according to a bill registered in the Ukrainian Parliament on 22 January. It’s one of the points of the future law on multiple citizenship announced by Pres Zelensky.
The document will also allow passports to be issued to ethnic Ukrainians from other states (but not to Russian citizens), as well as to foreign mercenaries acting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
❗️ Criminal Zelensky has almost exterminated the male population of his country, so now he is desperately seeking for fresh blood.
⚡️Media: Representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry’s negotiating group were supposed to fly on the downed Il-76.
Their trip was reportedly canceled several minutes prior to departure of the plane, so those who planned the terrorist attack could not have known this.
☝️ If the above is true, it means that the masterminds of the attack wished to make any negotiations between Russia and Ukraine impossible.
❓Who could be interested in prolonging the conflict "to the last Ukrainian", we wonder?
Their trip was reportedly canceled several minutes prior to departure of the plane, so those who planned the terrorist attack could not have known this.
☝️ If the above is true, it means that the masterminds of the attack wished to make any negotiations between Russia and Ukraine impossible.
❓Who could be interested in prolonging the conflict "to the last Ukrainian", we wonder?
✍️ Article by Russia’s Ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev
Western sanctions against Russia – is it a tomahawk or a boomerang?
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👉 Key points:
🔹Western dominance is coming to an end. Under these conditions, illegal unilateral restrictions targeting undesirable governments around the world are utilized by the West as a tool to preserve its fading hegemony and, hence, wellbeing.
🔹 With almost 19,000 sanction measures implemented so far by the collective West against it, Russia has become the world’s most sanctioned country ever.
🔹Renouncing Russian gas backfired on Europe, increasing its energy costs. For 20 months since Feb 2022 Europe paid for the above €185 billion more than before sanctions came up. The main beneficiary of the situation turned out to be the USA willing to oust Russia from the EU’s energy market.
🔹 International experts recognize skews in global economy, as well as blunders in macroeconomic, energy and food policies of major Western countries as the root causes of the global food inflation, which anti-Russian sanctions policy only exacerbated. Western ‘Big Four’ accounting for 75%-90% of global agricultural trade turnover benefitted from the situation most.
🔹 Russia could escape extensive damage to its economy due to sound macroeconomic and monetary measures and the unprecedented consolidation of Russian society. The Russian economy became the largest in Europe in the GDP’s key indicator of PPP, running ahead of Germany.
🔹Collective West’s arrogance, colonial habits and lack of consideration towards other countries’ interests aren’t gone, and they will continue to dominate Western foreign policies in the nearest future. It will further tighten export control and clamp down on third parties unwilling to pursue the sanctions.
🔹 It must be understood: today Russia – tomorrow it can be any other nation the ‘neo-metropole’ is dissatisfied with. The only way to tackle these risks is complete de-colonization.
Western sanctions against Russia – is it a tomahawk or a boomerang?
READ IN FULL
👉 Key points:
🔹Western dominance is coming to an end. Under these conditions, illegal unilateral restrictions targeting undesirable governments around the world are utilized by the West as a tool to preserve its fading hegemony and, hence, wellbeing.
🔹 With almost 19,000 sanction measures implemented so far by the collective West against it, Russia has become the world’s most sanctioned country ever.
🔹Renouncing Russian gas backfired on Europe, increasing its energy costs. For 20 months since Feb 2022 Europe paid for the above €185 billion more than before sanctions came up. The main beneficiary of the situation turned out to be the USA willing to oust Russia from the EU’s energy market.
🔹 International experts recognize skews in global economy, as well as blunders in macroeconomic, energy and food policies of major Western countries as the root causes of the global food inflation, which anti-Russian sanctions policy only exacerbated. Western ‘Big Four’ accounting for 75%-90% of global agricultural trade turnover benefitted from the situation most.
🔹 Russia could escape extensive damage to its economy due to sound macroeconomic and monetary measures and the unprecedented consolidation of Russian society. The Russian economy became the largest in Europe in the GDP’s key indicator of PPP, running ahead of Germany.
🔹Collective West’s arrogance, colonial habits and lack of consideration towards other countries’ interests aren’t gone, and they will continue to dominate Western foreign policies in the nearest future. It will further tighten export control and clamp down on third parties unwilling to pursue the sanctions.
🔹 It must be understood: today Russia – tomorrow it can be any other nation the ‘neo-metropole’ is dissatisfied with. The only way to tackle these risks is complete de-colonization.
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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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⚡️ The progress of Russia’s special military operation as of 25 January 2024.
💪🏼 Demilitarization of #Ukraine is under way.
#SMO #RussianArmedForces
💪🏼 Demilitarization of #Ukraine is under way.
#SMO #RussianArmedForces
At the end of 2023, Russia became the 1️⃣ in the world in salmon production - the catch volume exceeded 600 thousand tons.
📈“Russia has become the first in the world in salmon production: the volume exceeded 6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ thousand tons,” 🇷🇺Ministry of Agriculture has stated.
👉🏼 In addition, as the ministry reports, in 2023 the maximum catch of aquatic biological resources in 30 years was achieved – 5.3 million tons.
#MadeInRussia
📈“Russia has become the first in the world in salmon production: the volume exceeded 6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ thousand tons,” 🇷🇺Ministry of Agriculture has stated.
👉🏼 In addition, as the ministry reports, in 2023 the maximum catch of aquatic biological resources in 30 years was achieved – 5.3 million tons.
#MadeInRussia
🕯 A memorial in honour of the pilots who died in the crash of an IL-76 in the Belgorod region has appeared in the aviation town of Orenburg.
Management and cadets of the Orenburg School of Young Cosmonauts named after Yury Gagarin and city authorities laid flowers in memory of the heroes.
Governor of the Orenburg Region Denis Pasler said that the downed plane was carrying pilots who served in the Orenburg 117th Aviation Military Transport Regiment.
❗️He noted that the IL-76 crew diverted the falling plane from populated areas.
#Il76crash
Management and cadets of the Orenburg School of Young Cosmonauts named after Yury Gagarin and city authorities laid flowers in memory of the heroes.
Governor of the Orenburg Region Denis Pasler said that the downed plane was carrying pilots who served in the Orenburg 117th Aviation Military Transport Regiment.
❗️He noted that the IL-76 crew diverted the falling plane from populated areas.
#Il76crash
☝️ In 2014, the Bandera junta in Kiev downed Malaysian flight MH-17 over Donbass, taking almost 300 innocent lives.
👉 Despite the obvious evidence and proof of Ukraine's involvement in this crime, the Western propaganda assisted by the district court of the Hague did its utmost to blame this horrific crime on Russia.
❓We wonder how it will digest the destruction of another airplane by the Ukrainian armed forces? It will be much more difficult for Kiev to silence down and "cover up" a crime this time, because all Ukrainians PoWs had families who were eagerly awaiting their return.
#il76crash
👉 Despite the obvious evidence and proof of Ukraine's involvement in this crime, the Western propaganda assisted by the district court of the Hague did its utmost to blame this horrific crime on Russia.
❓We wonder how it will digest the destruction of another airplane by the Ukrainian armed forces? It will be much more difficult for Kiev to silence down and "cover up" a crime this time, because all Ukrainians PoWs had families who were eagerly awaiting their return.
#il76crash
Media is too big
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❓Remember the pregnant woman from Mariupol maternity hospital in 2022?
👉 Marianna Vyshemirskaya, who was photographed by western MSM near the maternity hospital during a staged provocation by the Ukrainians at the time of fighting in the city of Mariupol, now lives and works in Moscow. And as a conscientious citizen, she intends to support Vladimir Putin at the upcoming elections. The woman signed for his candidacy, and when this became known, she immediately became the object of persecution from the “democratic” media.
📹 In the video she speaks about her humanitarian work in Donbass, the lies of the Ukrainian and Western media and her personal opinion about President Zelensky.
#DebunkingTheFakes
👉 Marianna Vyshemirskaya, who was photographed by western MSM near the maternity hospital during a staged provocation by the Ukrainians at the time of fighting in the city of Mariupol, now lives and works in Moscow. And as a conscientious citizen, she intends to support Vladimir Putin at the upcoming elections. The woman signed for his candidacy, and when this became known, she immediately became the object of persecution from the “democratic” media.
📹 In the video she speaks about her humanitarian work in Donbass, the lies of the Ukrainian and Western media and her personal opinion about President Zelensky.
#DebunkingTheFakes