⚠️ Nationalist battalion fighters and AFU units, using civilians as human shields, continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip strongholds and deploy heavy weaponry.

🔹Azov Neo-Nazis battalion:

▫️in Mirnograd, Donetsk People's Republic, kindergarten No 19 in the Vostochnyi Microdistrict and a boarding school on L. Chaikina Street have been equipped with strongholds and barracks, and armoured vehicles and artillery have been placed in close proximity to residential areas;

▫️in Borovaya, Kharkov Region, barracks have been equipped in the school building and the Beryozka kindergarten, and heavy military equipment, artillery and MLRS have been placed on the territories. At the same time, civilians with children are forcibly detained in basements.

🔹Fighters of Aidar battalion:

▫️on the territory of the Church of the Praise of the Mother of God in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk Region, firing positions, artillery and MLRS have been placed in close proximity to densely populated residential areas;

▫️in Zaporozhye, they equipped firing positions and ammunition depots on the lower floors of hospitals on Sobornyi Prospect and Pobedy Street. At the same time, hospital staff and patients are held back as human shield.

🔹Armed formations of the Donbass battalion have equipped a stronghold in residential building No 10 on General Lozanovich Street in Slavyansk in Donetsk People's Republic and deployed heavy weapons and an ammunition depot. However, no civilians were evacuated from the building.

🔹In Sumy, AFU units have mined a road bridge on Kharkovskaya Street over the railway tracks of the Southern Railway branch, which they plan to blow up, blaming it on allegedly "advancing units of Russian troops".

❗️Such actions of the Kiev regime once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude to the fate of Ukrainian citizens and indicate a gross violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, but despite our repeated statements, they still remain without the attention of the international community and international organizations.

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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.

🏥A total of 959 militants have surrendered since 16 May, including 80 wounded, of whom 51 need hospital treatment have been admitted to Novoazovsk hospital in the Donetsk People's Republic.

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⚡️The territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where a group of Ukrainian militants of the Azov Nazi group has been blocked since April 21, has been completely liberated.

▫️The underground facilities of the enterprise, where the militants had been hiding, have come under full control of the Russian Armed Forces.

▫️Since May 16, a total of 2,439 Azov Nazis and AFU servicemen blocked inside the plant have laid down their arms and surrendered during the operation.

▫️Today, the last group of 531 militants surrendered.

▫️The so-called "commander" of the Azov Nazis, due to the hatred of Mariupol residents and the desire of the townspeople to massacre him for his numerous atrocities, was removed from the territory of the plant in a special armoured vehicle.

▫️Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shopify reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation and the complete liberation of the plant and Mariupol city from the Ukrainian militants.

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⚠️ According to information received from captured Ukrainian servicemen, militants of nationalist battalions are preparing another provocation with the use of toxic substances in Sumy.

▫️The neo-Nazis plan to shell Russian border territory from a residential area in the city and provoke Russian units to retaliate, after which they will blow up chemical tanks.

📹Foreign journalists are in Sumy to take photographs and video.

▫️This cynical action will soon be used by the Kiev authorities to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly using chemical weapons and indiscriminate strikes on civilians.

▫️Moreover, while previously in preparation for such provocations the civilian population was withdrawn from the area of planned contamination, now, in order to maximise the resonance, no warning was given to the population.

❗️We warn the "civilized West" as well as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in advance that the above and other similar provocations about alleged "Russian atrocities" are soon to be widely spread by the Ukrainian authorities through the Western media and in various Internet resources.

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⚠️In Kharkov Region, militants of the nationalist Kraken unit, formed mainly from radicals and released from prison rapists and murderers, conduct punitive raids in which so-called "death squads" at night break into the homes of local residents suspected by the SSU of pro-Russian sentiment, physically abuse them and take them away to an unknown destination.

▫️Dozens of the detainees never returned home, and their fate is still unknown.

▫️Such criminal actions and provocations on the part of the Kiev regime once again demonstrate Kiev's inhuman attitude towards the fate of its citizens and show complete disregard for the norms and principles of international humanitarian law.

❗️By applying a policy of "double standards", the collective West has absolutely no interest in conducting an impartial investigation and finding those responsible for the current disastrous humanitarian situation in Ukraine, and in fact "turns a blind eye" to numerous violations of international conventions by the Ukrainian side, shifting the blame onto the Russian Federation without evidence.

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💬'Western supplies of advanced weapons instigate the conflict and affect Ukraine itself.'

🎙Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin gave an interview to Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News (June 28, 2022)

Key points:

▪️Last developments in Ukraine
▪️G7/NATO summits
▪️Global food crisis
▪️Russia’s strategic aims on the Special military operation
▪️Sanctions against UK politicians and journalists

➡️https://youtu.be/U2E7XcY_tkA?t=1

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⬆️ 📺 In an interview with Russia Today TV channel (English-language broadcast), Head of the Russian Delegation Konstantin #Gavrilov commented on the Russian response to #Kiev’s barbaric attempts to carry out terrorist attacks against Russian strategic airfields.

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🎙Head of the Delegation Konstantin Gavrilov at the 1035th FSC OSCE plenary meeting:

📆 On May 17, 1990, NATO Secretary General M.Wörner stated: “The very fact that we are ready not to locate NATO troops outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany gives the Soviet Union firm security guarantees.”

❓Where are these guarantees?

❗️More than 30 years later, we still have not received an intelligible response to this question, and the proposals of the Russian Federation to sign legally binding treaties on security guarantees with the United States and NATO were arrogantly rejected by our former partners. Western countries have chosen the path of confrontation.

❓How, in particular, does this compare with the principle enshrined in Article 4 of the Code of Conduct on military-political aspects of security that “the participating States will build their mutual security relations on the basis of a cooperative approach”?

#Russia #SMO #Security #Europe

🎙 Head of the Russian Delegation Konstantin Gavrilov was live on Russia Today News Channel today
discussing the topic:

“🇬🇧UK is to supply depleted uranium ammo to 🇺🇦Ukraine, despite hazard to civilians”

💬 The British should take into account that they, first of all, endanger ordinary Ukrainians, whose fate they are so verbally concerned about: shells with depleted uranium infect the area and can cause cancer. This has already happened when the Western military tried on these ammunition during the bombing of Yugoslavia and during the invasion of Iraq.

#Russia #Ukraine #SpecialMilitaryOperation

🎙Head of the Russian Delegation Konstantin Gavrilov:

📈 🇷🇺 The Russian Federation is currently expanding its armaments production, including on the basis of an examination of enemy weapons. Our armourers have taken apart, bolt by bolt, equipment captured in the course of the special military operation and discovered much that is of use to them.

📍We have what it takes to respond to #Leopard, #Challenger and #Abrams tanks turning up in the zone of hostilities. Systems have been developed that are capable of penetrating the reactive armour on #NATO hardware using a projectile trajectory that is hard to detect and with the help of laser guidance.

🔐 The Russian Federation is firmly committed to its national security interests, which have been disregarded for decades by NATO (with the 🇺🇸 United States leading the way in that respect), and it will continue the special military operation until the safety of the people in our historical territories is assured.

#Russia #SpecialMilitaryOperation #Security

🎙Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview to Laura Kuenssberg on BBC, 28 May, 2023

🎞Watch the interview (full version)

🗒Ambassador Andrei Kelin's key statements

Main topics:

▪Conflict in Ukraine
▪Special military operation
▪Yevgeny Prigozhin’s statements
▪Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod Region
▪Situation in Donbass
▪War crimes by AFU
▪Prospects of peace talks
▪Weapons supply to Ukraine
▪Nuclear weapons
▪Russia-UK relations

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🇷🇺 Head of the Russian Delegation Konstantin Gavrilov:

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💬 The further reinforcement of NATO’s “eastern flank”, which is currently under way, is in actual fact setting the conditions for the formation of strike groups against our country in the shortest possible time. The number of the bloc’s multinational battalion groups, including those in Bulgaria and Romania, has increased from four to eight.

🇺🇸 The United States is building up its military infrastructure in 🇬🇷 Greece. Active use will be made of the port of Alexandroupoli to rapidly expand the grouping of forces in the southern part of the “eastern flank”. In fact, an alternative “window” is being created to move troops and military equipment to a potential European theatre of war, bypassing the 🇹🇷 Turkish straits.

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⚡️Head of the Delegation Konstantin Gavrilov:

❗️A few words about the results of Bulgaria's Chairpersonship at the FSC. Unfortunately, they are deplorable. It systematically ignored the opinion of the participating States and turned the OSCE decision-making body into a tool for serving NATO interests. This is unacceptable and contradicts the very nature of the Organization. In this regard, we do not consider it appropriate for the Russian delegation to be present at the closing of the current negotiation round. We hope that future Chairs will not repeat your mistakes. Otherwise, the Forum will plunge into a systemic crisis.

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⬜️🟦🟥 STATEMENT BY MR. KONSTANTIN GAVRILOV, HEAD OF THE DELEGATION, AT THE 1072nd PLENARY MEETING OF THE OSCE FORUM FOR SECURITY CO-OPERATION

▪️Subject: Special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine

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💬 The international community is going through an era of revolutionary change. A more equitable, multipolar world continues to be established. The imbalanced model of world development that for centuries secured for the Western colonial powers an economic growth that outperformed everyone else is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past.


🚩The collective West made a major miscalculation and has run up against the firm stance and resolve of our multi-ethnic people, of the people of #Crimea and #Sevastopol, of the inhabitants of a resurgent #Donbas and the other new regions of our country.

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⚪️🔵🔴 STATEMENT BY MR. KONSTANTIN GAVRILOV, HEAD OF THE DELEGATION, AT THE 1070th PLENARY MEETING OF THE OSCE FORUM FOR SECURITY CO-OPERATION

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💬 The Ukrainian crisis clearly demonstrates the hypocritical nature of Western policy, whereby the United States of America and its satellites interpret the principle of common and indivisible security exclusively through the prism of ensuring their own interests, which must be served by the rest of the world.

📍Neither the United States nor its European satellites are the slightest bit interested in the security of other States, which they are ready to sacrifice at any moment if their self-serving strategic goals require it. Ukraine is among such “victims”.

⛔️ The collective West’s tacit support for the criminal policies of the Kiev regime is giving it a dangerous sense of impunity. As a consequence, it is continuing to engage in the inhuman treatment of prisoners in violation of international humanitarian law.

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