🎙️Комментарий Посольства России в Норвегии для «РИА Новости» (16 апреля 2026 г.)

❓Как в Посольстве могут прокомментировать планы создания в Норвегии украинского производства беспилотников?

💬 Ответ: Планы создания на территории Норвегии «украинского производства дронов» были впервые озвучены еще в ноябре 2025 года. Посольство не располагает информацией о том, на каком этапе находится их реализация.

В любом случае исходим из того, что, являясь одним из главных спонсоров киевского режима и передавая ВСУ летальные вооружения и военную технику, Осло содействует продолжению кровопролития и несет прямую ответственность за совершаемые украинскими формированиями террористические акции и военные преступления, вызванные ими жертвы и разрушения гражданской транспортно-логистической и энергетической инфраструктуры, ущерб, наносимый экономоператорам России и других стран, в т.ч. Глобального Юга и Востока.

Отмечаем, что на сегодня главным средством осуществления указанных злодеяний являются получаемые и производимые Киевом при технологической и финансовой поддержке стран Запада беспилотные аппараты, которые теперь будут выпускаться и непосредственно в Норвегии, а также внедряться в местных вооруженных силах с прицелом на применение в случае возможного, как здесь считают, конфликта с Россией.

Рассматриваем такое решение норвежских властей как однозначно враждебный шаг, который лишний раз подтверждает обоснованность включения Норвегии в утвержденный Правительством России еще в 2022 г. перечень недружественных иностранных государств.

Призываем Осло отказаться от следования деструктивному конфронтационному курсу в отношениях с нашей страной.

🔗 Ссылки: 1, 2, 3.

🎙️ Kommentar fra Russlands ambassade i Norge til «RIA Novosti» (16. april 2026)

❓Hvordan kommenterer ambassaden planene om å etablere produksjon av droner for Ukraina i Norge?

💬 Svar: Planene om å etablere «ukrainsk produksjon av droner» på norsk territorium ble først offentliggjort allerede i november 2025. Ambassaden har ikke informasjon om hvor langt planene har kommet.

Uansett går vi ut fra at Oslo, som en av de viktigste sponsorene av regimet i Kiev og ved å overføre dødelige våpen og militært utstyr til de ukrainske væpnede styrkene, bidrar til at blodsutgytelsen fortsetter og bærer direkte ansvar for de terrorhandlingene og krigsforbrytelsene som begås av ukrainske styrker, de ofrene og ødeleggelsene av sivil transport-, logistikk- og energiinfrastruktur som disse forårsaker, samt skaden som påføres økonomiske aktører i Russland og andre land, inkludert i den globale sør og øst. 

Vi legger merke til at det viktigste middelet for å gjennomføre de nevnte grusomhetene i dag er droner som Kiev mottar og produserer med teknologisk og økonomisk støtte fra vestlige land, og som nå skal produseres direkte i Norge, samt tas i bruk av de lokale væpnede styrkene med sikte på bruk i tilfelle en mulig konflikt med Russland, slik man her anser det. 

Vi betrakter denne beslutningen fra norske myndigheter som et entydig fiendtlig skritt, som nok en gang bekrefter at det var rettmessig å inkludere Norge i listen over uvennlige utenlandske stater, som ble vedtatt av den russiske regjeringen allerede i 2022. Vi oppfordrer Oslo til å avstå fra å følge en destruktiv og konfronterende kurs i forholdet til vårt land.

🔗 Kilder: 1, 2, 3.

⚡️🚀 The Russian Space Forces conducted a successful launch
of a Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Today at 02:17 Moscow time, the combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a medium-class Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

The launch and insertion of the spacecraft into the designated orbit proceeded normally.

After liftoff, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket was tracked by ground-based automated control systems of the German Titov Main Test Space Center.

At the scheduled time, the spacecraft were placed into their target orbit and taken under control by ground-based Space Forces assets of the Aerospace Forces.

▶️ Stable telemetry communication has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, and their onboard systems are operating normally.

Video: Russian Ministry of Defence

#RussiaInSpace

#NoStatuteOfLimitations

Genocide and the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

The recognition of the genocide of the Soviet people is grounded in the Judgment of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, delivered on October 1, 1946.

✍️The verdict clearly and unequivocally stated:

“The crimes against the civilian population set forth above are monstrous. The evidence shows that, at any rate in the East, mass murders and atrocities were committed not only for the purpose of crushing opposition and resistance to the German occupying forces. In Poland and the Soviet Union these crimes were part of a plan to get rid of the entire local population by expelling and exterminating it in order to colonize the vacated territory with Germans.”

Although the Nuremberg Judgment did not yet employ the term “genocide”, which received formal legal recognition only in 1948 with the adoption of the UN Genocide Convention, it nonetheless established the essential elements of this crime.

❗️These included the intent to partially destroy populations of occupied territories on racial and national grounds, alongside the direct link between this intent and the crimes committed.

This interpretation was later affirmed by Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who coined the term “genocide.” He wrote:

“The main objective of the Nazis was to commit genocide against peoples in order to seize their territory for colonization. This applied to Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians.”

☝️ Thus, mass violence carried out by Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet territories was driven from the outset by genocidal intent, allowing the destruction of the indigenous Soviet population to be quilified precisely as genocide.

#April19

#NoStatuteOfLimitations

📄 As part of our continued publication of archival materials ahead of April 19, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, we present further evidence exposing the scale and intent of Nazi crimes.

The “Directives on Economic Policy” of the agricultural group of the “Ost” Economic Staff, discovered in 1945 among German High Command papers, significantly expand our understanding of Operation Barbarossa. This document set out in detail how the occupied territories of the USSR were to be systematically exploited.

Introduced at the Nuremberg Trials (document EC-126), U.S. prosecutor Whitney Harris described it as:

“a premeditated plan to murder millions of innocent people by starvation… on a scale beyond human imagination.”

Drafted under the leadership of Herbert Backe, the plan envisioned the seizure of grain and food supplies from the USSR to feed Germany and the Wehrmacht, while deliberately depriving large regions, especially the forest and non–black-earth zones, of sustenance.

✍️ The document explicitly acknowledged the consequences:

“Many tens of millions of people in this territory will become superfluous and will die or be forced to migrate to Siberia.”

❗️Nazi planners calculated that 20-30 million people could perish from famine as a result of this policy. The aim was not only economic exploitation, but also to cause depopulation and clear the land for German colonization.

Statements by Nazi leaders confirm this intent. On June 10, 1941, Heinrich Himmler declared that the campaign in the East aimed at reducing the Slavic population by 30 million.

Adolf Hitler himself argued that, just as Indigenous populations in North America had been decimated, “the same will happen in the East.”

Modern historians identify these directives as the foundation of the “Hunger Plan”, a system designed to achieve economic self-sufficiency for the Third Reich through mass starvation.

▪️These policies were not theoretical. Between 2.5 and 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died from hunger.

▪️ Starvation was deliberately used against civilians in occupied territories, including cities such as Kiev and Kharkov, and reached its most extreme form during the siege of Leningrad, where hundreds of thousands perished.

⚠️ The document stands as direct evidence that Nazi Germany pursued not only military conquest but also a coordinated policy of mass extermination.

#April19

◼️ Today our country marks for the first time Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

It was established b the Executive Order of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin of December 29, 2025, and the basic details of commemorating the genocide victims were determined by Federal Law No. 74-FZ. The date of 19 April was not chosen by chance. On this day in 1943, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued its Decree No. 39

#NoStatuteOfLimitations

The genocide of the Soviet people means the actions committed in 1941-45 with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, ethnic, racial and national groups that inhabited the USSR.

The top echelon of Nazi Germany regarded the territory of the Soviet Union up to the Urals as its Lebensraum, which historically was intended to be settled with representatives of the Aryan race and, therefore to be cleansed from those, whom the Hitlerite elite labeled as “subhumans”: Slavs, Jews, Gypsies and Asians.

With these purposes in view, even before invading the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany planned a system of extermination practices to radically reduce the Soviet population as early as during the war.

The orchestrated famine strategy was an important part of the Nazi genocide programme (https://t.me/MID_Russia/77695) that was to lead to the death of 30 million Soviet citizens as early as in the winter of 1941-42.

▪️ Although it has not been implemented in full, it still caused enormous victims, including: among those who died were over three million Soviet prisoners of war, about a million of residents in the besieged Leningrad, a great number of civilian population starving in the occupied areas, women and children forcefully imprisoned in the Nazi transfer camps.

▪️ Jews and Gypsies were subject to total extermination.

▪️ Soviet female labourers (Ostarbeiter) were subject to forced abortions.

▪️ Soviet children having signs of Aryan origin were kidnapped in the occupied territories for subsequent Germanisation, which also constitutes a conventional form of genocide.

From the very beginning of the war, the Nazis developed the so-called General Plan ‘Ost’ with the aim of colonising the occupied territories. Under the plan, millions of Germans were to be resettled in the conquered lands. New, German towns and villages were to be built for them.

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A horrifying estimate of 13.7 million people fell victim to the Hitler’s policy of destroying “subnormal” as he thought Soviet people, with another five million citizens to a willfully implemented famine strategy.

The facts of genocide in the occupied lands of former USSR have been confirmed judicially in all the constituent entities of Russia, where Nazis and their collaborators committed crimes against civilian population during the Great Patriotic War.

❗️ Russia’s diplomatic service will seek to ensure that the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators against the citizens of the Soviet Union are recognised by the international community as genocide against the Soviet people. The relevant qualification has been recorded in some documents adopted in the CIS and the CSTO.

💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the video address on Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People:

Preserving the memory of the millions of victims of the genocide of the Soviet people is our sacred duty. We will not allow those atrocities to be lost to oblivion, no matter how hard those who today seek once again to push Europe down the well-trodden path of racial superiority may try.

For further perusal:

👉 On the Nazi's genocide of millions of Soviet citizens

👉 Archival documents on heinous Nazi crimes in the concentration camps

👉 On the Khatyn' massacre

👉 How the West created and supported Ukrainian Nazi collaborators complicit in the genocide

👉 Section on the genocide of the Soviet people on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website (in Russian)