🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s interview with the Znaniye Society on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum

Key talking points:

🔹 The exasperation with which the #West is telling everyone to punish the Russian Federation and not to talk with us betrays its realisation of the fact that there will never again be such a thing as a unipolar world. The convulsions that we are now witnessing, the agony to some extent, could last for many years. I see this as a historical era of transition to a multipolar world.

🔹 Statistics shows that one in every four countries in the world is under sanctions, primarily sanctions imposed by the US, Europe, and those who collaborate with them. Currently, there is a movement towards isolation from these risks in order to continue trading, investing, promoting economic ties, and creating joint ventures and logistics chains in such a way as to obviate dependence on the West-controlled structures and mechanisms. Objectively, this process is laying the foundation of #multipolarity.

🔹 If all states comply with the requirements of the #UNCharter, the role of the United Nations is far from being exhausted. It would be enhanced if all states were guided by the principles of the UN Charter.

🔹 The voices demanding that the West pay for 500 years of its rule and global dominance are becoming louder. Unfortunately, it continues to act in an absolutely colonial way.

🔹 It is impossible to kill Russian culture no matter how hard one might try to do so. Such attempts are made by people who have no culture of conduct and co-existence in our world, who do not truly represent their nations. Look at who heads the European Union now.

Read in full👉 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1888902/

⚡️Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova on organ harvesting in Ukraine:

💬On December 16, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian parliament] adopted Law No. 5831 Regulating the Issue of Transplantation of Humans Anatomical Materials, which lifted the requirement for a written and notarised consent for a transplant surgery by a living donor or his/her relatives. Do you see what this was done for, how this law is being used now and for what purpose? There is no need to notarise a donor’s signature.

❗️Moreover, they have permitted the removal of children’s organs. The procedure for removing organs from the dead who did not sign an organ donation consent has been simplified and formalised. <...> A consent for the removal of tissues and organs from a dead body can now be issued by a person who is responsible for the burial. <...> For example, a chief hospital physician or a miliary unit commander can give this consent. Not only state but also private hospitals are allowed to conduct transplant operations.

⁉️ Do you understand what this means?

Read in full👉 https://is.gd/aPLboe

🗓 On June 22, Russian Ministry of Energy 🇷🇺 took part in the 14th #ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials' Meeting on Energy (#SOME-Russia) in Jakarta 🇮🇩.

🔹️The meeting approved the ASEAN-Russia Work Plan on Energy Cooperation for 2023-2025 that outlines specific steps aimed at intensifying substantive interaction between Russia and ASEAN Member States in six areas: oil and natural gas; coal and clean coal technologies; electric power; nuclear energy, renewable energy, alternative and low-carbon energy technologies.

🔹️Parties also discussed new projects under the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Financial Fund tabled by the Russian side.

#ASEANRussia #RussiaASEAN #SOME

Embassy Comment on SPIEF-2023

On June 14-17, 2023, Saint Petersburg hosted the 26th International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

On the background of growing sanctions pressure and the campaign led by the US and their satellites to isolate Russia, SPIEF confirmed its status of a flagship event of congress and exhibition activities on a global scale. Success of the forum clearly showed that a new block of countries seeking for sovereignty, is ready to build bridges of mutual understanding and cooperation all over the world.

Over 17 thousand people were guests of SPIEF-2023 from 130 countries. The largest delegations arrived from the UAE, China, India, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Cuba and the USA. Business was represented by 6 thousand participants from more than 3 thousand companies from 75 countries and territories. The delegation of the UAE that received the honorary status of guest country this year, was headed by President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The presidents of Algeria, Armenia and South Ossetia, Vice Premiers from Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Cuba, Myanmar and Uzbekistan were also among the distinguished guests of the forum. 32 ministers from foreign states and 52 heads of diplomatic missions attended the event.

Over 200 events were included in the SPIEF-2023 program. They were grouped in five thematic blocks: "The World Economy at a Global Turning Point"; "Building Technological Sovereignty": "Russian Economy: From Adaptation to Growth"; "Protecting the Population and Quality of Life as the Main Priority"; "The Labour Market: A Response to the New Challenges".

The central event was the Plenary Session (June 16) with the participation of V.V.Putin, President of the Russian Federation. In his keynote speech, the Russian President highlighted successful adaptation of the country's economy to the new geopolitical reality after February 2022. Despite huge external pressure, “plunder reminiscent of the Middle Ages” launched by the West in regard to the Russian foreign exchange reserves, Moscow managed to preserve economic stability of the country, prevent the growth of inflation (2.9% in 2022) and reduce unemployment to the lowest level in history (3.3%).

The President confirmed that Russia would keep the course to open economy and continue to strengthen economic ties with promising global markets. The volume of commodity turnover with a number of such countries has already increased several times in the recent months. Concerning the current state of the global financial system, V.V.Putin pointed out that Russia does not seek for de-dollarization of the world economy. Reduction in the share of the dollar in payments around the world is a reflection of objective tendency for the strengthening of multi-polarity.

Significant progress in the use of national currencies in foreign trade has been reached with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) - 90% of payments are made in rubles; with China - more than 80%) in rubles and renminbi. The Russian leadership set an objective to create a model of the economy which does not just respond to external and internal challenges, but also generates demand itself (“supply economy").

A keynote of the entire agenda of the forum were the ideas of building a multi-faceted sovereignty in Russia, as well as fostering a new fairer multipolar world order despite active opposition from the West.

During the year of Russia’s chair in the EAEU, a number of meetings at the forum were devoted to the sectoral aspects of integration processes. The important role of trade agreements of the EAEU with "non-bloc" partners for building an effective external integration contour was noted.

At the session on promotion of Russia’s contribution to the Official development assistance, it was stated that the Russian mechanism, unlike the Western model, is aimed at strengthening national development strategies of the partner countries and does not set a primary goal of achieving national military and political priorities or getting economic advantages.

The session "The Language of Diplomacy in a Multipolar World" with a written address to it by Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, was useful for domestic and foreign audience. It analyzed modern realities based on a historical retrospective, set the tasks of diplomacy for building a fair and democratic world order.

SPIEF-2023 hosted a number of country and regional business dialogues on relevant issues of world politics and economy: "Russia-UAE", "Russia-Algeria", "Russia-India", "Russia-China", "Russia-Kyrgyzstan", "Russia-Arab world", "EAEU-ASEAN", "Russia-Latin America".

The business results of the forum were also impressive. More than 900 agreements for a total amount of 3.86 trillion rubles were signed (according to open data that do not comprise a trade secret).

In general, the discussions at SPIEF-2023 confirmed the failure of attempts to isolate Russia on the international arena. Russia has preserved its status of a reliable constructive partner for all forces standing for the development of equal interaction, building of a fair world in which there is no room for the “right of the strong”, dictate and arm-twisting.

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«Верьте в себя, смело мечтайте, добивайтесь своих целей, и успех обязательно будет», – отметил, в частности, Президент.

Подробнее – на сайте Кремля.

⚡️ Обращение Президента России В.В.Путина к гражданам России

Выдержки

• Россия сегодня ведёт тяжелейшую борьбу за своё будущее, отражает агрессию неонацистов и их хозяев. Против нас направлена фактически вся военная, экономическая, информационная машина Запада. Мы боремся за жизнь и безопасность наших людей, за наш суверенитет и независимость. За право быть и оставаться Россией – государством с тысячелетней историей.

• Эта битва, когда решается судьба нашего народа, требует единения всех сил, единства, консолидации и ответственности. Когда в сторону должно быть отброшено всё, что ослабляет нас, любые распри, которыми могут воспользоваться и пользуются наши внешние враги, чтобы подорвать нас изнутри.

• То, с чем мы столкнулись – это именно предательство. Непомерные амбиции и личные интересы привели к измене. К измене и своей стране, и своему народу, и тому делу, за которое бок о бок с другими нашими частями и подразделениями сражались и погибали бойцы и командиры группы «Вагнер».

• Любая внутренняя смута – смертельная угроза для нашей государственности, для нас, как нации. Это удар по России, по нашему народу. И наши действия по защите Отечества от такой угрозы будут жёсткие. Все, кто сознательно встал на путь предательства, кто готовил вооружённый мятеж, встал на путь шантажа и террористических методов, понесут неминуемое наказание, ответят и перед законом, и перед нашим народом.

• Тот, кто организовал и готовил военный мятеж, кто поднял оружие на боевых товарищей, – предали Россию. И ответят за это. А тех, кого пытаются втянуть в это преступление, призываю не совершать роковую и трагическую, неповторимую ошибку, сделать единственно правильный выбор – прекратить участие в преступных действиях.

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У нас один главнокомандующий. Не два, не три. Один. И он призвал всех объединиться.

Это сейчас главное. У нас у всех есть своё отношение ко всему. Но наступают в истории моменты, когда своё личное надо отложить на потом. Даже, если считаешь, что прав на 100%. Почему? Да потому что если мы сейчас не объединимся, если каждый будет за себя или за своё видение ситуации, ничего уже не будет важно.
Только единение. Единение под знамёнами главнокомандующего.

Враг только и ждёт нашей междоусобицы. Не дождётся!

Мужики! За вами дети, женщины, ваши родители! За вами страна. За вами всё то, что вы защищаете с оружием в руках. За вами могилы тех, кто себя не жалел. За вами будущие поколения. Держитесь и не поддавайтесь.

Понимаю, что искушение поставить своё мнение над интересами страны и народа велико. Но если только ему поддаться, всё, ради чего мы живем и сражаемся каждый на своём месте, рассыпется.

Объединитесь. Вы братья. Вы защищаете не интересы отдельных людей , а нас всех. Вы защищаете вашу огромную семью. И мы верим в вас, как верили и поддерживали всегда.

Сегодня нас всех искушают, проверяя на прочность. Не поддавайтесь! Вместе с Президентом! Да хранит нас Бог!

🗓 On June 22, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin met with Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025, who is also Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, who is staying in Moscow on a working visit.

The two officials exchanged views on the OEWG’s activities and its future, reaffirming their mutual commitment to reinforcing the group’s standing as a central mechanism for addressing matters related to international information security (IIS) under the UN’s auspices and supporting it in carrying out its mandate.

☝️ They went on to note the importance of establishing practical cooperation and confidence building mechanisms between states in the context of efforts to coordinate the parameters of a global intergovernmental registry of focal points for exchanging information on cyberattacks and incidents, as proposed by Russia.

They also discussed the possibility of devising a universal international legal framework for regulating the way states behave in the information space based on a concept of a UN convention on ensuring IIS, sponsored by a group of countries. Mr Vershinin and Mr Gafoor emphasised that the OEWG must retain its role as a single negotiating platform on this topic.

⚡️ Заявление МИД России в связи с текущей внутриполитической ситуацией

💬 Имевшая место в нашей стране попытка вооружённого мятежа вызывает резкое неприятие в российском обществе, которое решительно поддерживает Президента Российской Федерации В.В.Путина. Авантюристические устремления заговорщиков, по сути, нацелены на то, чтобы дестабилизировать ситуацию в России, разрушить наше единство, подорвать усилия Российской Федерации, направленные на надёжное обеспечение международной безопасности. Таким образом, мятеж играет на руку внешним врагам России.

Предостерегаем западные страны от любых намёков на возможное использование внутрироссийской ситуации для достижения своих русофобских целей. Подобные попытки бесперспективны и не найдут отклика ни в России, ни среди здравомыслящих политических сил за рубежом. Убеждены, что в ближайшее время ситуация найдёт своё решение, достойное вековой мудрости российского народа и Государства российского.

Все цели и задачи специальной военной операции будут выполнены.

☝️ Наша страна продолжит суверенный курс на обеспечение своей безопасности, защиту своих ценностей, укрепление авторитета на международной арене, формирование справедливого многополярного миропорядка.

Высоко ценим понимание этой принципиальной позиции нашими союзниками и зарубежными партнёрами, которое мы уже сейчас в полной мере ощущаем.

Российский художественный фильм "Ополченочка" рассказывает об истории трёх девушек, жительниц Донбасса, которые в 2016 году волей судьбы оказываются в составе женского танкового экипажа Народной милиции ЛНР и становятся боевыми подругами.

Трейлер фильма доступен по ссылке: https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/1200347/video/

The Russian feature film "Opolchenochka" tells the story of three girls, residents of the Donbass, who in 2016, by the will of fate, join a female tank crew of the People's Militia of the LPR and become friends.

Trailer of the film is available here: https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/1200347/video/

An untruthful “documentary” by the BBC

🔗 https://mid.ru/ru/press_service/publikacii-i-oproverzenia/oproverzenia1/nedostovernie-publikacii/1855828/?lang=en

A new "documentary" cycle by the British BBC under the flashy title “Putin vs the West” is an extremely telltale example of media manipulation. Vividly and fully, it reveals the tools and the methods used by Western (British, as its epitome) propaganda, weaponised in the fight for the minds and hearts of the people on our planet. Based on a seemingly evidence-based and plausible sequence of events and accompanied by high-quality videos and quotes from Western “authorities,” they proceed to create a distorted semantic series which is literally turned upside down.

The people behind this undeniably fascinating feature television series were clear about the task at hand. It was to fend off, to the best of their ability (and imagination), Russia’s arguments, which most countries consider fair, that the West has for decades been following a path of deepening confrontation with our country. After all, our opponents ignored Russia’s proposals to implement the principle of indivisible security in Europe and to build a common economic and humanitarian space from the Atlantic to the Urals. Despite Russia’s objections, they stubbornly continued to expand NATO and to systematically move NATO’s defence potential to our borders. They busily engaged in social engineering in the countries neighbouring Russia and contributed to regime changes to put in anti-Russian governments that were openly hostile to our country. Finally, they moved swiftly to turn fraternal Ukraine and its leaders into a hotbed of neo-Nazi and Russophobic ideology, an outpost of Western militarism and a proxy player flush with Western money and weapons which is destroying (Kiev officials admit it) their country for the sake of realising Washington and London’s strategic goals.

The viewers will not see or hear that in the film, though. They will not be told about the motives that prompted the United States and the EU to ignore the policy of ethnic discrimination against Russians in the Baltic States for decades, which emboldened the Kiev regime as it proceeded to suppress the rights of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, and then to the physically destroy “subhumans” in Donbass. They will never mention the fact that high-ranking “visitors” from the White House and Brussels were present at the Kiev Maidan protests in the winter of 2013. The anti-constitutional coup in Ukraine was orchestrated with their blessing and generous financial backing. They will protect the viewership from unpleasant scenes of barbarous shelling of Donbass by the Kiev military and their henchmen, or torchlight processions of Ukrainian Nazis in the streets of Kiev. These aspects, which are extremely inconvenient for the “enlightened” West, are carefully sidestepped in the film.

The British television series is full of multiple hackneyed clichés and claims against us, including the infamous Skripal poisoning, the rupture of the INF Treaty, the tragedy of MH-17 flight, and much more. Each of these episodes is reviewed in a perfunctory, uncritical and categorical manner, without considering Russia’s arguments, which appear in the film only as a counterbalance to highlight indisputable Western versions of the events. Importantly, Russia’s point of view is either absent altogether, or is reduced to a few fragments of speeches and interviews with Russian officials taken out of context or, much more cynical, presented in the form of a primitive and utterly distorted interpretation by Western officials, many of whom (like Dalia Grybauskaite, Radoslaw Sikorski or Michael McFaul), have never made any secret of their anti-Russian prejudices.

To illustrate the methods used by the people behind the series, let's take a look at its second episode about the situation in Syria and around it.

The main message has been reduced, without any grounds, to the idea that the Russian leadership led by President Putin, allegedly avoided, in every possible way, the attempts to find a common language with its Western colleagues in order to keep Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria at any cost. Amid false accusations that the Russian leadership was disingenuous in its intentions, numerous statements and initiatives advanced by Moscow were ignored at a time where they were aimed at preventing a scenario involving a violent overthrow of the Syrian president, which would inevitably plunge the country into chaos, as the international community had the chance to see for itself in Iraq and then Libya. The critically important initiative put forward by the Astana format participants about forming a Constitutional Committee with the task of putting together proposals to amend Syria’s fundamental law, was not covered in the film, either. The key points from the interview by Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin, who provided a detailed account of our country’s stance, were not included in the series either for reasons that are unknown to us.

In contrast, the Westerners’ obvious involvement in unleashing a civil war in Syria is hushed up. Their attempts to overthrow Bashar al-Assad are cast as “democratisation” of the country. Not a word was said about the support provided by London and its allies to the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets volunteer organisation, which was directly responsible for mounting a number of provocations with the use of chemical weapons in Syria, including the tragedy in Eastern Ghouta (August 2013) that is mentioned in the film, with the aim of discrediting the Syrian and Russian governments. Finally, while criticising Moscow for alleged numerous civilian casualties during the operation to liberate Aleppo, the authors chose to simply “forget” about the really ruthless bombing of Syrian Raqqa by the United States, Great Britain and France in 2017, during which the city with a population of 300,000 was literally wiped off the face of the earth.

In general, the soothing repetition of headlines that have become a staple for the Western media, which testify to Moscow's alleged implication in high-profile events of the recent past, pushed the most important aspect of the situation to the background. This is an actual analysis of the causes of the current destabilisation of the military-political situation in Europe, due to the Western countries’ destructive policy and total ignorance of Russia’s concerns and interests. The “trees” have been planted by the authors in such a way that no one will be able to see the “forest” behind them.

It appears that the proposals regarding security guarantees that our country put forward in late 2021 are barely covered in the film for the same reason. Our demands to stop the admission of new members, including Ukraine, to NATO, to reinstate the status quo of 1997 in terms of forces and armaments in new NATO countries, and to abandon military activities and the deployment of ground-based intermediate and shorter-range missiles in the regions adjacent to Russia, do not appear to be anything out-of-this-world if we want to preserve stability throughout the Euro-Atlantic space. However, our serious proposals were not presented in the film in any way.

As a result, what we are left with is, once again, a pile of disparate and tired anti-Russian lampoons rather than an attempt to analyse the root causes of the security crisis in Europe, the origins of which go back to the late 1990s-early 2000s. Let's put it bluntly, they didn’t manage to objectively cover the aggravation of Russia's relations with the West, which is what the filmmakers themselves had declared as their task.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0dlz7gc/putin-vs-the-west

The West’s neocolonial policy in Africa

The West is deliberately pursuing a policy of increasing African countries' dependence in a wide range of areas - financial and economic policy, food and energy security, healthcare, and stability of the public administration system.

There is an increasing exploitation of the resources of African countries, including demographic ones. The fragmentation of the world economy and increased competition for resources make it necessary for the EU, in particular, to increase investment in African countries. But this investment is not for Africans. Their goal is to ensure the sustainable development of the European Union, not Africa. The maximum that is offered in return is programs aimed at creating conditions for training of the labour force required to service the mining and transport infrastructure necessary for the EU.

In this way, the West seeks to secure a subordinate position of Africa in the bloc confrontation between “democracies” and “autocracies” that it imposes on the world community. In fact, it seeks to reduce Africa to the role of a raw materials appendage, providing guaranteed access of the West to raw materials in exchange for limited access to certain "benefits" of Western civilization.

The EU's Global Gateway initiative is of key importance in this regard. This is a tool to ensure the interests of the collective West to the detriment of the world majority. Its essence boils down to the fact that countries that rely on EU investment in infrastructure and, in general, assistance in economic development, are invited to play on the "democratic side of history", confirming their compliance with a set of certain principles, including Western values, human rights, environmental and other standards, readiness to cooperate in countering hybrid threats and attempts of "economic coercion for geopolitical purposes." “As a result”, the West wants to get the widest possible economic sphere of influence, functioning according to its rules, as well as additional levers of influence on socio-economic (and through them - on domestic political) processes in the beneficiary countries.

The volume of assistance provided by the European Union is insufficient for African countries to gain genuine economic sovereignty on the terms that are offered. The promise to gather 150 billion euros for Africa through Global Gateway by 2027 means in practice that 20 euros should be allocated annually per African over the next five years.

The West uses sanctions to exert political pressure on unresponsive African countries, thereby worsening the socio-economic situation in conflict zones and exacerbating adverse humanitarian consequences. The West is trying to discredit bilateral cooperation between Russia and sanctioned countries through fakes about Russia’s alleged violations of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

Take a closer look, reader, if there are examples of similar policies in other regions of the world...

Ambassador’s Comment

I read a number of opuses by J.Eyal, published in the Straits Times on June 25 and 26, 2023, which are dedicated to the attempted armed mutiny in Russia. I got some idea about the coverage of this topic as a whole.

Sad impressions. Pure pro-Western content far from reality, discussions about the degradation of Russia's international role, disruption of the plans of the special military operation in Ukraine and weakening of the state power in Russia. Nothing could be further from reality.

We will answer with the words from the Address of President of Russia V.V. Putin dated June 24, 2023: “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.
Therefore, any actions that split our nation are essentially a betrayal of our people, of our comrades-in-arms who are now fighting at the frontline. This is a knife in the back of our country and our people.
What we are facing is essentially a betrayal.”

Let's continue with the words from the Statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the current political situation in the country dated June 24, 2023. It says: “The attempted armed mutiny in our country is resolutely rejected by Russian society, which strongly supports President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
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.”

As we think, it cannot be said more clearly. This is the whole answer to J.Eyal, who boringly repeats hackneyed pro-Western fakes that are in clear contradiction with reality and have the only goal – prevent people from independent and unbiased assessment of the situation in the modern world and from joining the ranks of the creators of a multipolar order.

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

⚡️ Обращение Президента России В.В.Путина к гражданам России (26 июня 2023 г.)

💬 Сегодня ещё раз обращаюсь ко всем гражданам России. Благодарю вас за выдержку, сплочённость и патриотизм. Эта гражданская солидарность показала, что любой шантаж, попытки устроить внутреннюю смуту обречены на провал.

Из обращения Президента России

◾️ Была проявлена высочайшая консолидация общества, исполнительной и законодательной власти на всех уровнях. Твёрдую, однозначную позицию поддержки конституционного порядка заняли общественные организации, религиозные конфессии, ведущие политические партии, фактически всё российское общество. Всех объединило и сплотило главное – ответственность за судьбу Отечества.

◾️ Именно братоубийства хотели враги России: и неонацисты в Киеве, и их западные покровители, и разного рода национал-предатели. Хотели, чтобы солдаты России убивали друг друга, чтобы погибли военнослужащие и мирные жители, чтобы в конечном счёте проиграла Россия, а наше общество раскололось, захлебнулось в кровавой междоусобице.

◾️ Признателен Президенту Белоруссии Александру Григорьевичу Лукашенко за его усилия и вклад в мирное разрешение ситуации.

◾️ Благодарю тех солдат и командиров группы «Вагнер», которые приняли единственно правильное решение – не пошли на братоубийственное кровопролитие, остановились у последней черты. Сегодня у вас есть возможность продолжить службу России, заключив контракт с Министерством обороны или другими силовыми органами, либо вернуться к своим родным и близким. Кто хочет – сможет уйти и в Белоруссию. Данное мною обещание будет исполнено. Повторю, выбор за каждым из вас, но уверен, это будет выбор воинов России, которые осознали свою трагическую ошибку.

◾️ Именно патриотический настрой граждан, консолидация всего российского общества сыграли в эти дни решающую роль. Эта поддержка позволила нам вместе преодолеть сложнейшие испытания для нашей Родины.

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⚡️President Vladimir Putin's address to citizens of Russia (June 26, 2023)

💬 Today, I am addressing the citizens of Russia once again. Thank you for your restraint, cohesion and patriotism. This civic solidarity shows that any blackmail, any attempt to stage domestic turmoil is doomed to fail.

Excerpts

• Society and the executive and legislative branches of government at all levels displayed high consolidation. Public organisations, religious denominations, the leading political parties and actually all of Russian society held a firm line, taking an explicit position of supporting constitutional order. The main thing – responsibility for the destiny of the Fatherland – has united everyone, brought our people together

• It was exactly this outcome, fratricide, that the enemies of Russia – the neo-Nazis in Kiev, their Western patrons and other national traitors – wanted to see. They wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other; they wanted the military and civilians to die; they wanted Russia to lose eventually, and our society to break up and perish in a bloody feud.