🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova’s comment following the latest Copenhagen-format meeting on Ukraine in Davos

💬 <...> Today, more countries from the Global South and East, including those that attended the Copenhagen-format meetings, are openly saying that discussing any possible contours of an eventual settlement of the #Ukraine crisis does not make any sense without Russia.

There is a growing understanding that the ultimatums set forth in the Zelensky Formula cannot bring about a comprehensive, just and lasting peace. This framework is based on delusional demands, such as withdrawing Russian troops to the 1991 borders, holding Russia accountable and making it pay reparations. At the same time, the Kiev regime does not hide the fact that it demands the withdrawal of troops in order to launch a genocide against Russians who support reunification with Russia. Supporting these demands means endorsing ethnic cleansing, which is a crime.

All Copenhagen-format meetings, including the one in Davos and any future gatherings, are ineffective and undermine the prospects for achieving a settlement of the Ukraine crisis. The organisers have been trying to draft The Principles for Peace in Ukraine but they are inherently unviable since they are based on the Zelensky Formula, absurd and unacceptable as it is. Moreover, Zelensky has enacted a legal ban that prevents him from engaging in peace talks with Russia.

☝️ It is only by returning to the roots of its statehood, including neutrality, non-bloc and non-nuclear status while fully respecting the rights and freedoms of people of all ethnic backgrounds living on its territory, that Ukraine would be able to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace settlement.

❗️ Unfortunately, the Zelensky Formula and the agenda of the Copenhagen-format meetings fail to address these crucial matters.

🔗 Read in full: http://tiny.cc/7xm6wz

⚡ МИД России подготовлен очередной доклад о нарушениях прав российских граждан и соотечественников в зарубежных странах.

❗ Нарушения прав граждан России в западных государствах остаются многочисленными. По-прежнему в качестве предлога для оправдания этого неприглядного отношения к нашим соотечественникам используется проводимая Российской Федерацией специальная военная операция по денацификации и демилитаризации Украины и защите мирного населения Донбасса (СВО).

▪️ Никуда не исчезли такие нарушения прав россиян, как отказы от оказания широкого спектра услуг, введение мер, направленных против российского бизнеса, наложение ареста на имущество росграждан, принуждение к публичным покаяниям и осуждению действий российских властей, отстранение от спортивных состязаний и культурных мероприятий.

▪️ Не утихают и только усиливаются преследования проживающих за рубежом соотечественников и активистов-антифашистов, особенно за их усилия по сохранению подлинной исторической памяти.

▪️ В значительном числе фиксируются инциденты с задержаниями и политически мотивированными преследованиями россиян, в том числе по запросам третьих стран, среди которых лидируют США.

▪️ Продолжаем также фиксировать инциденты с воспрепятствованием властями зарубежных стран деятельности российских журналистов или лиц, представляющих российские СМИ.

Со своей стороны МИД России продолжает предпринимать все возможные дипломатические шаги для защиты прав российских граждан, оказавшихся в тюрьмах за рубежом. Такие дела находятся на контроле российских дипломатических представительств и, в случае необходимости, выносятся на обсуждение на самом высоком уровне.

📖 Читайте доклад полностью: https://vk.cc/ctY3Om

🇷🇺 Russia's EMERCOM aircraft delivered 30 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip

✅ Food products;
✅ Clothing;
✅ Blankets;
✅ Hygiene items.

The EMERCOM's IL-76 aircraft flew to the airport of El-Arish. In Egypt, the humanitarian aid will be handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society. They will redirect it to the to the people of the Gaza Strip.

In total, since the beginning of the humanitarian mission, 18 flights of the Russia's EMERCOM have delivered ~420 tonnes of food products, medicines, clothing and other essentials to the people of the Gaza Strip.

📹 EMERCOM of Russia - t.ly/iyhr4

#RussiaHelps

📅 On January 18, 1654 (370 years ago), Zaporozhiye Cossacks led by Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky announced in the city of Pereyaslav their decision to move “under the high arm” of the Moscow tsar.

Since the start of the Rzeczpospolita, the Catholic gentry had subjected the people living in ancient Russian lands to aggressive Polonisation and Latinisation, which was accompanied by the seizure of substantial land holdings. Threatened with the loss of religious and ethnic identity, the Orthodox population of the Dnieper River began gradually forming a liberation movement. Those who wanted to escape the yoke of the Polish gentry and reunite with Russia were ready to act together.

The leaders of the uprising looked at other options for the future. There were initiatives to reconcile with the Polish king, and even seeking the patronage of the Turkish sultan was considered.

☝️ Ultimately, however, the people of these lands made their historical choice in favour of unification with Russia.

The Pereyaslav Agreement ’s defining feature was representation of all areas of the Hetmanate divided into military-administrative units (Cossack regiments). A certificate from Tsar Alexis of Russia read that he accepted under his “high arm the entire Zaporozhiye Cossacks with cities and lands". Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the Cossack commanding officer and the local population swore allegiance to Russia.

❗️ This decision marked a turning point in the history of Eastern Europe as a whole.

The decision by the Pereyaslav Agreement clearly demonstrated the will of the once separated people to live in the same state.

Unfortunately, the term “reunification” has been all but forgotten in official Ukrainian historiography. The West is openly encouraging the Kiev regime to renounce centuries of friendship and brotherhood with Moscow and fanning anti-Russia hysteria in Ukrainian society.

💬 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

⚡️ Afghanistan... Libya, Iraq. Look at any country where the US & its satellites carried out their “misadventures”. Did the situation improve anywhere?

❗️Ukraine will sadly suffer the same fate [as Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq].

If one relies on its master, unaware that the master always thinks solely of oneself, you cannot count on the interests of your people to be taken into account.

🔗 https://vk.cc/cu1qrJ

🎙Excerpts from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement and answers to media questions during a news conference on Russia’s foreign policy performance in 2023:

💬We will continue to promote the ideals of truth and justice in international affairs. <...>

In this sense, our Ministry strongly supports United Russia’s initiative to hold in Moscow an international inter-party forum of supporters of combating the modern practices of neo-colonialism. It is a popular theme given that the neocolonialist nature of Western policy is present in a big way in the current policies pursued by the United States and its allies. Its thrust remains the same – to use the resources of other countries to their benefit and to live off of others.

❗️The upcoming forum promises to be an engaging and important event.

🔗Read in full: https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1926392/

#West #neocolonialism

Inside Russia’s Military Operation

Moscow’s objectives and the West’s interest in Ukraine support
By the end of 2021, Ukraine amassed 150,000 troops near the border of the Donbass and Lugansk in an effort to conquer those territories ravaged by years of war. A large-scale Ukrainian aggression was being prepared. For years, the US and its allies have been furnishing Kiev with military aid for training and equipment worth billions of dollars. The country was long chosen as NATO’s foothold right on Russia’s doorstep.

Kiev insists the Russian offensive was unprovoked, but multiple attempts on the part of Moscow to negotiate the ‘rules’ and NATO expansion in Europe failed. When Moscow sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, it targeted strategic objects - military ranges, factories, arms depots and airfields. Now Russia is seeking to take over land corridors to Crimea. Moscow is ready for a peace deal, but Kiev has other plans, which is to defeat Russia on the battlefield with the help of western weapons.

However, military aid provided by the West won’t turn the tide in the Ukrainian conflict. It only protracts it, resulting in more unnecessary deaths among civilians and the military. Experts in the documentary explain why the ongoing fighting is a proxy war between Russia and the US - and why it’s a boon for the American defence industry. ‘It’s one of these situations where the US can take part in a conflict without losing its people’.

Link: https://rtd.rt.com/films/inside-russias-military-operation/

Duration: 27:30

Beautiful pictures of winter Crimea