🎙 Excerpts from the interview with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for Izvestia MIC (March 28, 2024)

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#MiddleEastSettlement

• Creating the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders in line with the UNSC resolutions is the only way to bring a lasting solution to this issue.

• Most importantly, the bloodshed should be stopped. The adoption of this resolution (UNSC 2728) is a good development. The Americans let it pass realising that if they veto this resolution, calling for a ceasefire, they would lose face in their relations with the Global Majority.

#Moldova

• Moldovan President Sandu is openly seeking to break off relations with Russia. <...> Sandu has been turned into a instrument for developing the geopolitical space first by the EU and then NATO. <...> NATO has turned Ukraine into a tool of aggression. Now, they plan to do the same with Moldova.

#Armenia

• The Armenian leadership is deliberately aiming at breaking off relations with Russia. <...> The goal of those who are trying to tempt the Armenian leadership to the side of the West is simple – to disrupt stability in the South Caucasus and to turn it into a zone of Western domination.

#MultipolarWorld

• We have already dispelled all the far-fetched aspirations that Russia can be isolated by holding the Games of the Future and the World Youth Festival.

• We are paying more attention to our common Eurasian continent, where we have CSTO, EAEU, and SCO. These organisations are establishing partner relations with other organisations in that part of the world, like ASEAN, the Arab League, and the GCC. At the same time, we are developing ties with the African Union. <...> We are doing the same in Latin America. We have many partners there.

• Today, we see the regionalisation of global development. Every region and every country would like to be able to rely on its neighbours, to see what they can do together, among themselves, without depending on the logistics, financial and other instruments which the West still controls.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, May 3, 2024)

🔹 The Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Ten years since May 2, 2014, tragedy in Odessa
🔹 Ukraine’s war on the Russian language
🔹 Freedom of speech the British way
🔹 The issue of whether arms supplies by the US and the West to Ukraine are legal
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Evolution of EU defence policy
🔹 Vrbetice case investigation concluded in the Czech Republic
🔹 80th anniversary of the liberation of Sevastopol
🔹 Events to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Great Victory

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#Ukraine

The Crimean Bridge is again targeted today, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Crimea’s liberation [from the Nazi invaders]. Preparations for attacking it are conducted openly, arrogantly and with a direct and shameless support of the collective West.

We would like to tell Washington, London and Brussels again that any aggressive actions against Crimea would not only fail but would provoke a destructive retaliation strike.

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Meanwhile, the Kiev regime seems to be working off the pain of its losses on the frontline by fighting its Soviet past and rewriting history. The Bandera followers have redoubled these efforts before the day they especially hate, Victory Day, a story of the fight between good and evil where the Bandera army fought on the side of evil.

#Moldova

The West is turning that nation into its speechless slave. We continue to follow the developments in Moldova. Its current leaders, who collectively regard themselves as Romanians and not Moldovans, are pursuing a home policy of repression modelled on the policies of Ukraine and the Baltic states and aimed at turning the republic into a powerless appendage to the EU and NATO. <...>

According to independent Moldovan political scientists, the incompetence of the Sandu team is turning it into a white elephant in the eyes of its Western sponsors, who have put so much money into it.

🎙 Briefing by Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department Andrey Nastasin (Moscow, July 3, 2024)

🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime’s war crimes
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Independence Day of Belarus
🔹 London and its loyalists
🔹 UN General Assembly resolution on World Swahili Language Day
🔹 World Olympic Day and the decline of the Olympic Movement
🔹 Results of the meeting of NATO defence ministers

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#Ukraine

• On June 28, Zelensky extended greetings to Ukrainians on Constitution Day. It looked like a blatant mockery of the country’s citizens as well as its basic law. There is no way a person who has usurped power could be considered a guarantor of the Constitution in a democratic and law-based state.

❗️The road to Europe, which Zelensky covered in his “congratulations” much more extensively than the Constitution itself, is paved with dead Ukrainian citizens. <...> Condolences, not congratulations, are a far more suitable choice given the circumstances.

#Moldova

• The European Council has adopted a time-serving and totally politicised decision to open accession negotiations with Moldova on June 25. The Moldovan authorities saw this as the approval of their anti-Russia policy and a free hand to continue turning the republic into a “European dictatorship” under the guise of fighting the non-existent Russian “hybrid threats.”

☝️ Chisinau’s persecution campaigns and arbitrary acts are promoting an increasingly negative reaction in society.

#UnionState #RussiaBelarus #WWII

• Today, 80 years after the liberation of Belarus from the invaders, joint search teams and law enforcement agencies of the Union State of Russia and Belarus discover new crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators.

👉 The enormous amount of work done by the two countries’ lawyers, historians and prosecutor’s offices made it possible to officially recognise the Nazi extermination policy during the war as a full-scale genocide of the Soviet people.

🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (July 24, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Beijing Declaration on Ending Division and Strengthening Palestinian National Unity
🔹 Pentagon’s updated Arctic strategy
🔹 30th anniversary of the Association of Caribbean States
🔹 Tenth #BRICS Youth Summit
🔹 Paris refuses to accredit certain Russian journalists for covering the Olympic Games
🔹 Preparation for signing a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia
🔹 The use of anti-Russian agenda in domestic political struggle in the US

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#Ukraine #KievRegimeCrimes

🕯 On July 27, the Donetsk People’s Republic will mark a tragic date, Day of Remembrance for Child Victims of the War, established on July 11, 2022 by an executive order of the Head of the Republic.

• The number of underage children, killed by Kiev-controlled military formations, continues to increase in Donbass and elsewhere. On this day, we also remember innocent victims from the Belgorod, Kursk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, including those killed or wounded by militants of the Kiev regime.

• Unfortunately, it is impossible to bring back the deceased children and to provide closure for their parents and relatives. However, it is necessary to expose their murderers who will be severely punished. Russian investigative agencies will take care of this. There cannot be, nor will there be, any statute of limitations for these barbaric crimes.

#Moldova

⚠️ Reprisals against Moldovan citizens who support ties with Russia and call for expanded bilateral relations in all spheres have already broken all world records in terms of their dynamics in Moldova under the regime of Maia Sandu.

• Despite active official anti-Russia propaganda, most Moldovans do not see Russia as a threat and suggest expanding bilateral relations.

🤝 We completely share this mood. The people of Moldova have always been and still are our friends. I believe that they are well aware of this.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department’s Deputy Director Andrey Nastasin (July 31, 2024)

🔹 Assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh
🔹 Israel’s strike against Beirut
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev’s decision to cut off the Druzhba oil pipeline
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Japan and the US renew an agreement on the parameters of lethal arms exports
🔹 Statements by IOC President Thomas Bach
🔹 Interim results of Russia’s #CIS Chairmanship in the first six months of 2024
🔹 80 years of liberating Kaunas from Nazi invaders
🔹 The 80th Anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Lebanon
🔹 Prospects of #RussiaALBA cooperation

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#KievRegimeCrimes

❗️Kiev continues to detain church hierarchs under far-fetched pretexts, holding them under arrest for months without recourse to court, and openly declaring its desire to use the clergy in POW swaps.

Illegal takeovers of Ukrainian Orthodox Church churches by representatives of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian police continue.

▪️ July 11 – the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kiev Region was taken away from the believers;
▪️ July 18 – St Nicholas Church in the Khmelnytsky Region was taken away;
▪️ June 28 – a court in Ternopol denied the UOC the right to use the local cathedral;
▪️ July 5 – a Kiev court seized the Yeletsky Monastery from the UOC.

No matter how hard Zelensky’s regime tries to fulfill the its American masters’ order to destroy canonical Orthodoxy, he will not succeed. True faith will forever remain in the hearts of millions of Ukrainians.

#Moldova

⚠️ We have repeatedly pointed out that the Moldovan authorities are leading the country along the same path as that taken by Ukraine and the Baltic states. This trend continues. On July 25, Prime Minister Dorin Recean welcomed the launch of a Moldovan website identical to the Ukrainian Myrotvorets facility. According to him, initiatives like this one are what will help build Moldova’s “European future.”

Such unrealistic statements and incompetent actions by the country’s leadership are causing growing protests not only in Moldova itself, but also in Moldovan diasporas abroad, including in Western Europe. <...>

👉 All of this is a logical outcome of the policy aimed at dismantling the country’s statehood and national identity and at renouncing the traditional values.

It is for a reason that the Moldovans display warm feelings towards Russia, which has always treated Moldova as an equal partner, and openly laugh at the “Russian threat” allegations. We remain friends. All attempts to destroy this are doomed.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (September 20, 2024)

🔹 79th UN General Assembly
🔹 Situation in Lebanon
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Report on Atrocities by the Kiev Neo-Nazi Regime in the Kursk Region
🔹 Genocide of children in the Nazi-occupied territory of the USSR
🔹 IV Eurasian Women’s Forum
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Progress of German investigation into the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream
🔹 Provocative military activities by the US and the Republic of Korea on the Korean Peninsula
🔹 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria

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#Lebanon

We are deeply concerned about the dangerous developments in the Republic of Lebanon. On September 19, the Israeli Air Force conducted a number of mass strikes in some districts in the south of Lebanon.

We express our solidarity with Lebanon and strongly condemn the terrorist acts of armed aggression committed against that country and its citizens, which have resulted in the deaths of civilians and the destruction of social infrastructure.

We have noted the Israeli statements about “a new phase in the military campaign with a refocusing on the northern area.” We believe that the beginning of a large-scale military operation in Lebanon would have devastating effects on security throughout the entire Middle East. Such a catastrophic scenario must be avoided.

#Ukraine #KievRegimeCrimes

We have noted recent reports by the Turkish and Syrian newspapers Aydinlik Gazetesi and Al-Watan on holding talks by Ukrainian emissaries with the terrorist organisation Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham regarding the recruitment of fighters in the Syrian province of Idlib for joint preparations for attacks on Russia.

According to reports received by the media from Syrian sources, 250 instructors from the Ukrainian Armed Forces have recently arrived in Idlib to train terrorists from the above organisation.

The Kiev regime has long been betting on terrorism, threatening the entire world with unpredictable and extremely dangerous consequences.

#Moldova

The pro-Western leadership of Moldova continues to instil aggressive Russophobia in the republic, persistently but unsuccessfully trying to convince ordinary Moldovans that our country is the source of all troubles and misfortunes.

We see that the residents of Moldova are sick and tired of the European integration experiments the current authorities have conducted on them. They are consolidating to oppose the interests and values that they are being forced to accept.

#KoreanPeninsula

The United States and the Republic of Korea have been increasingly active militarily on the Korean Peninsula.

Washington, Seoul and Tokyo are creating a trilateral military cooperation system, hatching plans for regular trilateral inter-service drills. The defence ministers of the three countries hold meetings to prepare the ground for the “coalition’s” possible mobilisation and assignment of roles in a hypothetical conflict with the DPRK.

To justify their aggressive intentions, the West has invented “threats” allegedly posed by Russia and the DPRK.

Implementing the revanchist plans to change the status quo on the peninsula is provoking an uncontrolled escalation of military tensions. We hope that the United States and South Korea understand the risks involved in their continued attempts to foment military hysteria and settle the scores with the DPRK.