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📸 Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
(Moscow, February 17, 2023)

🔹 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #UkraineCrisis
🔹 Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s statements on the possibility of Ukraine striking targets in #Crimea
🔹 The US policy of #DoubleStandards
🔹 Celebrating International #MotherLanguageDay
🔹 Results of the #NATO Council meeting at defence minister level
🔹 US practice of forcing neutral countries to comply with anti-Russian #sanctions
🔹 Earthquake relief efforts in #Syria
🔹 British intelligence services hacking mobile phones
🔹 New findings in #TwitterFiles investigation
🔹 #WhiteBooks about crimes committed by the modern Anglo-Saxon and their accomplices
🔹 The 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations #RussiaMyanmar
🔹 The 185th anniversary of diplomatic relations #RussiaSerbia

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🔴 #LIVE: President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federal Assembly (Russia’s two-chamber Parliament).

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtffgmGFYaA

🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202302210900-LIVE13350-Putin-delivers-address-to-Federal-Assembly

❗️Main Points From Putin’s Address To The Russian Federal Assembly

The Russian president spoke for approximately 1 hour 45 minutes on Tuesday in his address to the nation. Here’s what was said:

Russia Suspends New START With US: Moscow will no longer participate in the last remaining nuclear treaty between Russia and the US.

Why The Special Military Operation In Ukraine Was Launched: Ukraine was ready to launch a large-scale attack on Donbass by February 2022 and had the West’s blessing - Russia’s operation was preemptive.

Western Sanctions Failed: The expected economic destabilization resulting from the “theft” of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves by the West did not materialize. The economy has overcome all sanctions-related risks.

West Playing With ‘Stacked Deck’: The Minsk Agreements, meant to pave the way for peace in Ukraine by granting the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics special status, were nothing more than “a diplomatic spectacle, a bluff.”  

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❗️NATO Demands Russia Return To The New START Treaty — Putin

More statements from the Russian president during his Tuesday speech to the nation:

▪NATO issued a statement de facto demanding that Moscow "return to the implementation of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty”

▪This is absurd, as the West is directly involved in attempts to strike Russian bases

▪One week ago, a decree was signed putting the latest ground-based missile systems on combat duty

▪Russia’s requests to inspect US and NATO nuclear facilities are ignored

▪We cannot ignore the latest statements of Western leaders as they send Russia ultimatums

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⚡️New Economic Cycle, Growth & Markets - Push to Indo-Pacific

Vladimir Putin has said Russia is moving fast to fill the void left by Western partners, and it's seen record employment numbers and a stubborn economy hold tight.

📍North-South Corridor will boost trade with India
📍Cargo flows being upgraded. New corridors to Iran & Pakistan
📍Road networks to Kazan, Siberia & Beyond - Kazakhstan link

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❗️Russia’s Economy Is Withstanding Western Sanctions — Putin

More statements from the Russian president during his Tuesday speech to the nation:

▪Those who sanctioned Russia punish themselves; they provoked a rise in prices in their countries, and they say that we are to blame

▪The West is stealing Russian assets

▪The Russian economy is much stronger than the West assumed when imposing sanctions

▪We ensured the stability of the economic situation and prevented a shortage of goods

▪GDP decreased by 2.1% in 2022, according to the latest data - in March last year, it was predicted the Russian economy would collapse

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❗️Ukrainian People Are Hostages To Kiev Regime And Their Western Masters — Putin

More statements from the Russian president during his Tuesday speech to the nation:

▪Those who plan strikes on Donbass are planning to strike Crimea and Sevastopol next

▪West has sent more than $150 billion in aid to Kiev and supplied it with weapons

▪Accusations against Russia are to make everyone forget what the West has done by plunging entire regions into chaos

▪The West in the 1930s opened the way for Nazis to come to power in Germany, and today is working to make Ukraine “anti-Russia’

▪The West is ready to use terrorists and the "bald trait" to enforce their will

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🇷🇺🙏🇮🇳 The 36th Surajkund International Crafts Mela has come to a close. Delegation from Khanty-Mansia region represented Russia on the final day of this fantastic event.

🕯️ Tracing back the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian side starting from as early as 2014, one may recall that it was the Kiev regime who have been directing the nationalist battalions and have given them a free hand in the southeast region

President Putin: West Aims to Turn Ukraine Conflict Into Global Confrontation

🇷🇺🌐 On Tuesday, 21 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin deliver a regular address to the Federal Assembly, which was moslty devoted to assessing the causes and inevitability of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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