🕯 On the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, we recall a difficult time when the entire Soviet people stood united against a common enemy as never before.
These early days marked the sudden onset of a long and devastating war, captured in photographs that show shock, destruction, and the first moments of organised resistance.
#WeRemember
These early days marked the sudden onset of a long and devastating war, captured in photographs that show shock, destruction, and the first moments of organised resistance.
#WeRemember
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▪️ 22 June is the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow.
85 years ago, Nazi Germany and its allies launched a treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. This marked the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, one of the most tragic chapters in our history. It claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens and left millions more wounded, bereaved and scarred by its devastation.
In London, Vasily Tsyganov, Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy, laid flowers at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park.
Unveiled in 1999, the monument stands as a symbol of the British respect for the heroism and self-sacrifice of the Soviet citizens and soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War in the struggle against Nazism. It serves as a reminder of the price of victory and the enduring importance of preserving historical memory.
#WeRemember
85 years ago, Nazi Germany and its allies launched a treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. This marked the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, one of the most tragic chapters in our history. It claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens and left millions more wounded, bereaved and scarred by its devastation.
In London, Vasily Tsyganov, Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy, laid flowers at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park.
Unveiled in 1999, the monument stands as a symbol of the British respect for the heroism and self-sacrifice of the Soviet citizens and soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War in the struggle against Nazism. It serves as a reminder of the price of victory and the enduring importance of preserving historical memory.
#WeRemember
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🕯 On the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, President Vladimir Putin honoured the memory of the fallen in the battles against the Nazi invaders by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow.
The President also laid flowers at the memorials honouring the Hero Cities and at the obelisk dedicated to the Cities of Military Glory.
The President also laid flowers at the memorials honouring the Hero Cities and at the obelisk dedicated to the Cities of Military Glory.
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💬 President Vladimir Putin: The current international situation is far from stable. There is an ongoing military confrontation in the Middle East, and the potential for conflict has increased significantly in several parts of the world, including Eurasia [...]
Today the West is openly talking about preparing for a war against us and building up their military offensive budgets.
However, in order to justify these expenses and the radical militarisation of their countries, the leaders of NATO and EU states are once again resorting to lies about an alleged Russian military threat.
The pseudo-democratic West's plan of action is simple: first they create threats for our country, forcing us to take the necessary action to defend and protect our country, and then they immediately accuse us of all the mortal sins in order to justify their continued aggressive policy and their aggressive actions against Russia [...]
Russia has consistently advocated equal and indivisible security for all. We believe that this goal can only be achieved by creating a multipolar system of international relations and ensuring the military security of every country.
At the same time, we stand ready to respond promptly and appropriately to any external and internal threats.
Excerpt from President Putin's address at a meeting with graduates of military academies, Moscow, 23 June 2026
Today the West is openly talking about preparing for a war against us and building up their military offensive budgets.
However, in order to justify these expenses and the radical militarisation of their countries, the leaders of NATO and EU states are once again resorting to lies about an alleged Russian military threat.
The pseudo-democratic West's plan of action is simple: first they create threats for our country, forcing us to take the necessary action to defend and protect our country, and then they immediately accuse us of all the mortal sins in order to justify their continued aggressive policy and their aggressive actions against Russia [...]
Russia has consistently advocated equal and indivisible security for all. We believe that this goal can only be achieved by creating a multipolar system of international relations and ensuring the military security of every country.
At the same time, we stand ready to respond promptly and appropriately to any external and internal threats.
Excerpt from President Putin's address at a meeting with graduates of military academies, Moscow, 23 June 2026
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✍️ Excerpt from President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s speech at the meeting with Government members (23 June, 2026):
💬 Everything the Kiev regime does is aimed at one thing only: creating favorable conditions for itself in the event of the start – or, more accurately, the resumption – of peace negotiations that were interrupted at Ukraine’s own initiative, and doing so from what it seeks to portray as a position of strength.
What position of strength are we talking about? At most, this is an attempt to create the impression of strength. The reality on the battlefield is entirely different.
All these attacks, which are essentially terrorist acts, including strikes on civilian infrastructure, on a bus carrying Belarusian children in the Belgorod Region, or on a student dormitory in in Starobelsk, do not and cannot change the situation on the front line.
Nevertheless, as has been stated on many occasions, Russia remains ready for peace negotiations with Ukraine. We are prepared to proceed on the basis of the agreements reached in Istanbul, which, I would remind you, were initialed by the Ukrainian delegation at the time, indicating that they found them acceptable. We see no reason to depart from those agreements.
Negotiations should be based on the understandings reached in Istanbul, the modalities discussed in Anchorage, and, most importantly, the realities on the ground, as well as the principles I outlined during my address at the Foreign Ministry several years ago.
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💬 Everything the Kiev regime does is aimed at one thing only: creating favorable conditions for itself in the event of the start – or, more accurately, the resumption – of peace negotiations that were interrupted at Ukraine’s own initiative, and doing so from what it seeks to portray as a position of strength.
What position of strength are we talking about? At most, this is an attempt to create the impression of strength. The reality on the battlefield is entirely different.
All these attacks, which are essentially terrorist acts, including strikes on civilian infrastructure, on a bus carrying Belarusian children in the Belgorod Region, or on a student dormitory in in Starobelsk, do not and cannot change the situation on the front line.
Nevertheless, as has been stated on many occasions, Russia remains ready for peace negotiations with Ukraine. We are prepared to proceed on the basis of the agreements reached in Istanbul, which, I would remind you, were initialed by the Ukrainian delegation at the time, indicating that they found them acceptable. We see no reason to depart from those agreements.
Negotiations should be based on the understandings reached in Istanbul, the modalities discussed in Anchorage, and, most importantly, the realities on the ground, as well as the principles I outlined during my address at the Foreign Ministry several years ago.
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🎙 Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova on the UK initiative to supply enriched uranium to Ukraine for nuclear power plant operations:
💬 Britain’s decision is driven not only and not so much by purely commercial considerations but rather by an intention to score further dubious political points on the promises to continue the support of Zelensky’s criminal regime regardless of the atrocities it commits.
It would be enough to mention that the information was leaked from the former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office exactly at a time when the Ukrainian armed forces continue its precision strikes at the Zaporozhye NPP and Energodar where the staff of this NPP reside with their families.
London has expressed neither condemnation nor concern about these strikes, which is certainly indicative, including in terms of its approach to nuclear security.
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💬 Britain’s decision is driven not only and not so much by purely commercial considerations but rather by an intention to score further dubious political points on the promises to continue the support of Zelensky’s criminal regime regardless of the atrocities it commits.
It would be enough to mention that the information was leaked from the former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office exactly at a time when the Ukrainian armed forces continue its precision strikes at the Zaporozhye NPP and Energodar where the staff of this NPP reside with their families.
London has expressed neither condemnation nor concern about these strikes, which is certainly indicative, including in terms of its approach to nuclear security.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during the Ambassadorial Roundtable discussion Ukraine Crisis: The West’s True Goals and Role (Moscow, 23 June 2026)
Key talking points:
▫️ The UK and EU countries continue to pump the Kiev regime with weapons and money, while pandering to its openly terrorist actions. They justify any criminal actions by the Kiev regime.
▫️ Everything we hear today from Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, and other European capitals amounts to a demand for Moscow to surrender.
▫️ The real goal of the West behind its calls for talks is to preserve Ukraine as a launching pad for fighting Russia. That is why they are seeking an immediate ceasefire. Their goal is to halt Russia’s advance and buy time in order to pump weapons into the Kiev regime.
▫️ The US, the UK, and Europe are striving for total global dominance so that no one can prevent them from continuing to extract resources around the world and live at the expense of others.
▫️ We are countering this course with a concept of pan-continental security and cooperation architecture – an architecture open to all Eurasian countries without exception. This matter was discussed at the recent Russia-ASEAN summit in Kazan.
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📸 Today, marking the 85th anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Information Bureau, the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group is opening a major photo exhibition titled 85 Years of Sovinformburo. History Brought to Life. An Era Captured.
🖼 The exhibition brings together 30 iconic photographs taken over the decades and, for the first time, presents the country’s history through archival images brought to life with AI technology.
The exhibition is timed to coincide with June 24, 1941. #OTD, the third day of the Great Patriotic War, that the Soviet Information Bureau was established.
For 85 years, the agency, later transformed into the Novosti Press Agency and subsequently RIA Novosti, has remained the country’s principal voice, documenting landmark events in Russian and world history. Today, its traditions are carried on by the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group, which comprises RIA Novosti and Sputnik.
The exhibition features works by renowned photographers, including legendary frontline photojournalists Georgy Zelma, Yevgeny Khaldei, Vladimir Grebnev, Mikhail Ozersky, Igor Kostin and other masters of documentary photography.
☝️ Their lenses captured the Battle of Stalingrad and the 1945 Victory Parade, Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight, the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, Sochi and Milan, the work of peacekeeping forces and historic meetings between world leaders.
💬 Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group Dmitry Kiselev:
ℹ️ The exhibition 85 Years of Sovinformburo. History Brought to Life. An Era Captured was organised by the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group in cooperation with and with the support of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be displayed at Russian diplomatic missions abroad.
🖼 The exhibition brings together 30 iconic photographs taken over the decades and, for the first time, presents the country’s history through archival images brought to life with AI technology.
The exhibition is timed to coincide with June 24, 1941. #OTD, the third day of the Great Patriotic War, that the Soviet Information Bureau was established.
For 85 years, the agency, later transformed into the Novosti Press Agency and subsequently RIA Novosti, has remained the country’s principal voice, documenting landmark events in Russian and world history. Today, its traditions are carried on by the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group, which comprises RIA Novosti and Sputnik.
The exhibition features works by renowned photographers, including legendary frontline photojournalists Georgy Zelma, Yevgeny Khaldei, Vladimir Grebnev, Mikhail Ozersky, Igor Kostin and other masters of documentary photography.
☝️ Their lenses captured the Battle of Stalingrad and the 1945 Victory Parade, Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight, the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, Sochi and Milan, the work of peacekeeping forces and historic meetings between world leaders.
💬 Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group Dmitry Kiselev:
8️⃣5️⃣ years ago, during the difficult first days of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Information Bureau was born.
It was called upon to become the voice of the country at a time of its greatest trials.
Today, as we turn the pages of this unique chronicle, we see how wartime communiqués marked the beginning of a remarkable journey that came to reflect an entire era.
This is the history of our country: a chronicle of victories, the conquest of space, the triumphs of our athletes and outstanding cultural figures, and, of course, a testament to the enormous role our country has played and continues to play on the world stage.
We, the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group and the RIA Novosti and Sputnik agencies, are the direct successors of Sovinformburo. The traditions of the frontline correspondents who followed the roads of war alongside Soviet soldiers, documenting every step towards the Great Victory, are not empty words to us. Today, our war correspondents work just as their illustrious predecessors did 85 years ago: on the front line, risking their lives so that the world can see the truth.
This exhibition is our tribute to those who made history and to those who continue making it today.
ℹ️ The exhibition 85 Years of Sovinformburo. History Brought to Life. An Era Captured was organised by the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group in cooperation with and with the support of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be displayed at Russian diplomatic missions abroad.
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