❗️Putin says addresses Russians, military, security agencies, those who have been pushed on path of armed mutiny by deceit, threats:

▪️Russian authorities won't let split in Russia happen again, people will be protected

▪️Putin says spoke to military commanders on all directions at night, army fighting valiantly;

▪️Any discord must be put aside during special military operation;

▪️Excessive ambitions led to treason against Russia;

▪️All those responsible for attempted mutiny will face inevitable punishment, will answer to law, to people.

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❗️रूस में वैगनर पीएमसी की बगावत के बीच रूसी राष्ट्रपति पुतिन ने राष्ट्र को संबोधित किया

व्लादिमीर पुतिन ने राष्ट्र के नाम संबोधन में रूस के नागरिकों, सेना, सुरक्षा एजेंसियों और उन लोगों को संबोधित किया जिन्हें धोखे और धमकियों से सशस्त्र विद्रोह के रास्ते पर धकेल दिया गया है। उनके संबोधन के प्रमुख अंश:

📍रूसी अधिकारी रूस में दोबारा विभाजन नहीं होने देंगे, हम आंतरिक देशद्रोह से अपने देश की रक्षा करेंगे
📍सभी सैन्य कमांडरों से बात की है और सेना बहादुरी से लड़ रही है
📍विशेष सैन्य अभियान के दौरान किसी भी तरह के विवाद और कलह को किनारे रख देना चाहिए
📍अत्यधिक महत्वाकांक्षाओं के कारण रूस में यह विरोध पैदा हो रहा है
📍विद्रोह के प्रयास के लिए जिम्मेदार सभी लोगों को निश्चित रूप से सजा का सामना करना पड़ेगा, कानून और लोगों को जवाब देना होगा

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⚡️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin's address to citizens of Russia

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• Today, Russia is waging a tough struggle for its future, repelling the aggression of neo-Nazis and their patrons. The entire military, economic and informational machine of the West is directed against us. We are fighting for the lives and security of our people, for our sovereignty and independence, for the right to be and remain Russia, a state with a thousand-year history.

• This battle, when the fate of our nation is being decided, requires consolidation of all forces. It requires unity, consolidation and a sense of responsibility, and everything that weakens us, any strife that our external enemies can use and do so to subvert us from within, must be discarded.

• What we are facing is essentially a betrayal. Inflated ambitions and personal interests have led to treason – treason against our country, our people and the common cause which Wagner Group soldiers and commanders were fighting and dying for shoulder to shoulder, together with our other units and troops.

• Any internal revolt is a deadly threat to our statehood and our nation. It is a blow to Russia, to our people. Our actions to defend the Fatherland from this threat will be harsh. All those who have consciously chosen the path of betrayal, planned an armed mutiny and taken the path of blackmail and terrorism, will inevitably be punished and will answer before the law and our people.

• Those who staged the mutiny and took up arms against their comrades – they have betrayed Russia and will be brought to account. I urge those who are being dragged into this crime not to make a fatal and tragic mistake but make the only right choice: to stop taking part in criminal actions.

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⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the current political situation in the country

💬 The attempted armed mutiny in our country is resolutely rejected by Russian society, which strongly supports President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Reckless aspirations of the conspirators are essentially aimed at destabilising the situation in Russia, destroying our unity, and undermining the efforts of the Russian Federation to reliably ensure international security. Therefore, the mutiny plays into the hands of Russia's external enemies.

We warn Western countries against undertaking even the slightest attempts to use the domestic Russian situation to achieve their Russophobic goals. Such attempts would be futile and will find no resonance either in Russia or among reasonable political forces abroad. We firmly believe that in the near future the situation will find a solution worthy of the age-old wisdom of the Russian people and the Russian State.

All the goals and objectives of the special military operation will be achieved.

☝️ Our country will continue on its sovereign course to ensure its security, defend its values, strengthen its authority in the international arena, and establish a just multipolar world order.

We highly value the understanding of this principled position by our allies and foreign partners, which we are fully aware of already now.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, June 21, 2023)

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🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 NATO Air Defender 23 exercise
🔹 Situation in Kosovo
🔹 Syrian settlement
🔹 Support for projects in Africa
🔹 Day of Remembrance and Sorrow
🔹 Situation in Moldova

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#Ukraine
It has been reported that the lion’s share of European and American humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine is appropriated by Kiev officials who are famously steeped in corruption.

They invent ever more grey schemes to take over (actually, steal) humanitarian aid. Up to a third of this cargo vanishes on the way to its addressees.

#NATO
Air Defender 23 exercise, now underway in German airspace. This is the largest exercise involving NATO air forces since the alliance’s inception. Its scale implies that Washington and its allies are drafting operational plans for engaging an adversary with a comparable potential.

In these conditions, we would like to note once again that any attempts to threaten the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian Federation will inevitably result in repercussions for their organisers.

#Kosovo
The situation in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija is steadily deteriorating. The self-proclaimed authorities led by “prime minister” Albin Kurti are openly moving towards an armed conflict.

The United States and the EU continue to turn a blind eye to “prime minister” Albin Kurti’s disruptive actions and intentionally lead the settlement process to an impasse, forcing Serbs to give up their vital interests.

⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on speculations about nuclear risks allegedly generated by Russia

💬 We regard the Kiev regime and its overseas patrons’ statements about Russia allegedly posing threats to the Zaporozhye NPP (#ZNPP), as a vile provocation.

This is yet another attempt to discredit Russia, ascribe to it non-existent intentions, and simultaneously cover up their criminal – and actually terrorist – plans to create a nuclear accident that will endanger the life and health of people in the region and all over Europe.

We once again warn the Kiev regime and its Western supporters against engineering potentially grave accidents at ZNPP and call on the IAEA and its leadership to take advantage of their experts’ presence at the plant and record all cases of Ukrainian attacks.

We note that this latest provocation by the Kiev regime squares in time and meaning with the draft resolution submitted by US senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal urging that an instance of radioactive contamination in Ukraine be regarded as a pretext for activating Art. 5 of the Washington Treaty complete with the launching of NATO’s relevant political and military response mechanisms.

It is clear that these irresponsible statements by the Washington hawks are meant for audiences that are ignorant of facts and realities. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that there is no need for Russia to use nuclear weapons in the context of the Ukraine crisis.

👉 The United States deliberately continues to “up the ante” and generate strategic risks, involving its NATO allies in this dangerous game. This reckless policy will lead to extremely sad consequences, including for Washington itself.

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🎥 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RT (Moscow, June 26, 2023)

🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the intended looting of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

💬 As it became known from a recently published report of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the Kiev authorities are preparing, with support from their Western patrons, an operation to “evacuate” abroad the Christian valuables of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, including the locally preserved relics of Orthodox saints.

❗️ This flagrant act is yet another instance of Vladimir Zelensky’s criminal policy of destroying the traditional foundations of Ukrainian society and the age-old common spiritual bonds between our two peoples. Moreover, this involves not only a banal act of looting of the holy shrine but also the deprivation of the Ukrainian people and the entire Orthodox world of their religious, cultural, and historical heritage.

☝️ It is clear that the Kiev-based neo-Nazis have no use for the interests of the Ukrainian people and Ukraine itself. To line their pockets, they continue selling the country piece by piece, sending its black soil, grain, people, and even human organs to the West.

The Kiev regime’s persecution of priests, monks and parishioners of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an important topic of our regular conversations with the heads of the UNESCO Secretariat. Following these exchanges of views, we were given unequivocal assurances that UNESCO was not and would not be involved in the relocation of Orthodox objects of worship from Ukraine and specifically from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra World Heritage Site. As far as we know, Russian journalists have received identical assurances.

👉 Given that it is UNESCO’s international prestige that is at stake, we hope that the Secretariat will be as good as its word. For our part, we will continue to monitor the developments.

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Ukraine Admits To Persecuting Christian Church Without Legal Basis

The Ukrainian government is operating in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra without a court decision, stated the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, Alexander Tkachenko.

Talking to the Rada TV channel, Tkachenko said that the government gave the monastery a “Ukrainian identity” without waiting for a court decision or a corresponding new law.

According to the official, transferring the Lavra facilities, which are under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to the state is still ongoing.

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