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Operation Ukraine: Bandera's Dark Shadow — an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: In today's Ukraine, that of the Kiev regime and Neo-Nazis, Stepan Bandera is a national hero. That was far from the case, his name loathed and crimes denounced. Yet those who came into power following the violent 2014 coup rename streets after him, organize processions in his honor, teach false historic narratives to kids in school, glorifying Nazism and banderovites.

Bandera is for certain far from a decent role model. As a young man, Bandera trained his will and ruthlessness through sadistic acts towards defenceless animals. In his early youth he joined the Ukrainian nationalists' underground terrorist organisation, the OUN, and ended up controlling the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

Together with his followers, Bandera collaborated with the Nazis and was responsible for the genocide of Polish and Jewish civilians during WWII.

Historian of Secret services Nikolay Dolgopolov:

This is believed to be one of the most brutal episodes of extermination of Jews during the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union. It was done by the very same OUN advance units that marched along with the German Wehrmacht

The documentary explains why Bandera’s atrocities are disregarded in modern Ukraine. It also tracks the way Hitler's collaborator was elevated to the rank of national hero by the Ukrainian authorities. As well as highlights the West's involvement in supporting, supplying and financing the Banderovites throughout the decades, nourishing the rise of the modern Ukrainian Neo-Nazism.

🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the murder of Russian military correspondent Semyon Yeryomin

On April 19, Izvestia’s military correspondent Semyon Yeryomin perished in a well-aimed drone attack in the Zaporozhye Region. The attack was launched by armed units of the Kiev regime, while he was performing his professional duty.

He died from wounds inflicted by an artillery shell dropped from a Ukrainian drone in a second deliberate attempt on his life.

❗️ We regard this premeditated and coldblooded murder as yet another confirmation exposing the ugly, terrorist nature of the Zelensky regime, which has declared open season on Russian media persons, military correspondents and public figures, whose reports, comments and publications reveal the truth to the international community and furnish undeniable evidence of crimes committed by the Kiev regime’s thugs.

It was Semyon Yeryomin who published documentary evidence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine designating Russian frontline correspondents as priority targets for annihilation.

The murder of Semyon Yeryomin, this bloody crime, cannot be seen as anything other than an act of vengeance for his honest performance of his journalistic duty.

We urge the related international organisations and human rights bodies to immediately and resolutely denounce yet another cruel murder of a Russian journalist. By their habitual silence, they are encouraging the Kiev clique to new, ever more horrible terrorist attacks against media representatives, something that makes them accomplices in these crimes.

☝️ Double standards are totally unacceptable in a situation involving the media rights and efforts to create a safe environment for media professionals.

125 years ago OTD Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century's most influential writers was born in St Petersburg.

Following his departure from Russia Vladimir Nabokov stayed in London for a few months in 1919.

He then went on to spend three years in Cambridge studying zoology and languages.

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В этот день 125 лет назад в Санкт-Петербурге родился Владимир Набоков - один из наиболее влиятельных писателей ХХ века, который внес выдающийся вклад в развитие русской и англоязычной литературы.

Покинув Россию в 1919 году, В.Набоков провел в Британии три года.

Сначала в Лондоне, а затем в Кембридже, где изучал зоологию и филологию.

🎙 Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's response to a question from the Rossiya Segodnya news agency regarding Polish President Andrzej Duda's statement on the readiness to deploy US nuclear weapons on Polish territory

❓ Question: In an interview with Fakt, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the Polish authorities are ready to accept the deployment of US nuclear weapons on their territory. How would you comment on this?

💬 Maria Zakharova: Such provocative statements by the Polish leadership are not new. The Polish authorities have long made no secret of their ambitions to "snuggle up" to the US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe and have been actively weaving them into their deeply hostile policy towards Russia.

It is clearly not enough for Poland that it is already a member of NATO, which arbitrarily positions itself as a "nuclear alliance." Moreover, Warsaw is intensively involved in the practice of the so-called "joint nuclear missions" of the North Atlantic bloc as a state that provides direct support to such operations.

All this together leads to the fact that in our own military planning we treat Poland with special attention and in view of the threats that arise for Russia with the involvement of this country. The Polish factor was certainly also taken into account by us and our Belarusian friends in taking additional measures to strengthen the security of the Union State.

☝️ However, Warsaw seems to be maniacally seeking to attract even more attention from military planners in the Russian General Staff. It is not difficult to assume that in the event US nuclear weapons appear on Polish territory, the relevant facilities will immediately be added to the list of legitimate targets for engagement in a situation of direct military confrontation with NATO.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, April 18, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 The Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Terrorist attacks by Ukrainian neo-Nazis against Russian medical workers
🔹 The situation around the Zaporozhskaya NPP
🔹 France handing over its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to NATO’s operations command
🔹Cooperation with ASEAN countries
🔹 On the Moldova's authorities decision to hold a referendum on accession to the EU
🔹 On Japanese Prime Minister Kishida's visit to the US
🔹 International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace

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#Ukraine #KievRegimeCrimes

With obsessive cruelty, fighters from the Ukrainian Armed Forces hunt down the medical workers who are helping the victims of shelling attacks and target them in an attempt to destroy them and prevent them from saving civilians.

Hospitals, outpatient clinics, rural health posts and other medical buildings in the DPR and LPR, as well as the Belgorod, Bryansk, Zaporozhye, Kursk, and Kherson regions, regularly come under fire from neo-Nazis.

☝️ We are not going to leave the above crimes unpunished. The perpetrators will be identified and held accountable to the full extent of the law.

#France #NATO #Sovereignty

Reports from the French Armed Forces General Staff on handing over the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and its escort combat vessels under NATO’s operations command for the naval drills in the Mediterranean <...> is yet another clear indication that France’s national sovereignty is being progressively eroded in its most important and sensitive dimension, which is nuclear deterrence.

❗️ This and similar decisions made by Paris convince us once again that, when discussing the crisis in European security and the problem of global security, strategic stability and arms control, France’s nuclear arsenal must be considered as one with that of the United States and Great Britain.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 42nd meeting of the Council of the Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Moscow, April 22, 2024)

💬 Today’s agenda focuses on promoting inter-regional cooperation between constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.

🔹Russian-Chinese relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction continue developing in a dynamic and all-round manner and demonstrate high durability and an ability to adapt to the changing international realities.

🔹A highly important part of strategic partnership, hinges on coinciding or largely similar positions of our countries on key issues of the international agenda. Work is underway to merge the integration potentials of the EAEU and China’s Belt and Road Initiative, including in the context of implementing the initiative of President Vladimir Putin to forge a Greater Eurasian Partnership.

🔹 Russia-China trade and economic cooperation is developing actively, despite persistent attempts by the collective West states to hamper this process. Bilateral economic ties have become virtually de-dollarised. Today, national currencies account for over 90 percent of mutual payments and settlements.

🔹 Interregional cooperation traditionally remains an important component of consolidating the diverse complex of our relations. Following the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in 2023, the Russian Federation’s territories and China’s provinces greatly expanded the volume of their exchanges.

🔹 Forty-three Russian regions and Chinese provinces and autonomous regions have signed 117 cooperation agreements in various fields. Russian municipalities have signed 313 twin city agreements with their Chinese partners.

🔹 We believe the potential of the interregional interaction is far from being exhausted. Broad opportunities for its further development open up in new international realities.

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О выездной консульской сессии в Белфасте

▪︎20 апреля 2024 года было проведено первое за последние 30 лет выездное консульское обслуживание российских граждан в Северной Ирландии, г. Белфаст.

▪︎В течение дня более 70 соотечественников обратились к нашим сотрудникам по широкому спектру консульских вопросов. Речь идет, главным образом, об оформлении паспортов, гражданства несовершеннолетним детям, доверенностей и справок о несудимости. Особое внимание традиционно было уделено пенсионерам и многодетным семьям.

▪︎Отмечаем, что консульские выезды неизменно пользуются повышенным спросом у наших граждан, в том числе проживающих за пределами консульского округа Посольства России в Великобритании. В данном случае более половины посетителей составили жители Республики Ирландия.

▪︎Имеем в виду развивать практику консульских выездов и расширять ее географию. Оказание содействия нашим соотечественникам - приоритет в работе Посольства вне зависимости от расстояний и политической конъюнктуры.

🤝Благодарим наших соотечественников за позитивное настроение, ответственное отношение к делу и высокие оценки нашего труда.

📹 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s video address to participants in the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference

Key talking points:

• The arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation system crisis reflects unprecedented degradation in the sphere of international security.

• The West is balancing on the dangerous edge of a direct military confrontation between nuclear powers, which could have catastrophic consequences.

• The US-led collective West is cynically complementing the deliberate destruction of balanced and equal agreements that do not suit Washington with the promotion of apparently dishonest schemes that would create advantages for the United States.

• Striving to attain decisive military superiority, Washington and its allies are enlarging the network of alliances directed against other countries. They are working energetically to implement a number of highly destabilising military-technical programmes.

• There is no basis whatsoever for an arms control and strategic stability dialogue with the United States in the face of a total hybrid war being waged against our country.

• Moves to undermine the existing arms control and non-proliferation system are affecting the stability of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. <...> The Western countries have used the treaty for years to address political agendas unrelated to nuclear non-proliferation.

• The attempts of the Western countries to tailor the OPCW to their vested interests are a source of serious concern. The Western states have already turned this prestigious and strictly technical international agency into an instrument for implementing their geopolitical interests in the Middle East and beyond by privatising the OPCW Secretariat.

• We are convinced that to prevent further degradation of the world situation <...> all countries should pool their efforts to upgrade the international security system relying on the principles of multilateralism, equality and indivisibility.

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🎙️Ответ Посла России А.В.Келина на вопрос СМИ об очередном британском «пакете» военно-технического содействия киевскому режиму

▪︎Анонс планов правительства Р.Сунака передать киевским подопечным еще один транш военной помощи – это не более чем дань текущей политической конъюнктуре.

▪︎В Лондоне, с одной стороны, постарались встроиться в кильватер линии США на дальнейшую подпитку вооруженного конфликта на Украине, которая была подтверждена принятыми 20 апреля в Конгрессе решениями. С другой, вложились в формирование благоприятного медиа-фона в преддверии визита Р.Сунака в Польшу, которая также методично опустошает свои арсеналы поставками киевскому режиму.

▪︎Для правящих тори имиджевый аспект особенно важен в канун намеченных предварительно на осень с.г. парламентских выборов – ведь лейбористы, как здесь отмечают, начинают переигрывать их уже и в позиционировании себя в качестве «партии сильной обороны».

▪︎Отчаянная попытка с помощью очередной «подачки» изменить неутешительную для Запада динамику конфликта на Украине предпринята за счет британских налогоплательщиков. В украинскую «черную дыру» безвозвратно канут те деньги, которые могли бы быть направлены на купирование наиболее болезненных симптомов остро ощущаемого здесь «кризиса стоимости жизни».

▪︎Впору задуматься и о гуманитарном аспекте анонсированного британского военного транша. Эта новость неслучайно совпала с решением Киева прекратить предоставление консульских услуг проживающим за рубежом украинским мужчинам призывного возраста.

▪︎Явно исполняя свою часть «сделки», режим В.Зеленского активизирует мобилизационные мероприятия, призванные загнать побольше собственных граждан на передний край проспонсированного Западом «конфликта по доверенности» против России.

❗Знаем, что, несмотря на круглосуточную антироссийскую пропаганду, в Британии по-прежнему остается немало думающих людей, которые осознают - происходящее чревато для Украины и украинцев, о которых якобы заботится официальный Лондон, катастрофическим сценарием.

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🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin's address to participants in 12th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues

💬 President Putin: Welcome to St Petersburg for the opening of the 12th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues.

During the upcoming plenary sessions, discussions, and roundtables, you will analyse the global landscape, discuss key aspects of global and regional stability, and share perspectives on enhancing responses to the most urgent and perilous contemporary challenges.

Undoubtedly, international terrorism remains one of the gravest threats of the 21st century <…> At the same time, the tactics employed by these criminals are becoming increasingly complex and barbaric.

Once again, this was demonstrated by the bloody terrorist attack that took place on March 22 in the Moscow Region. Russia’s intelligence services and law enforcement agencies are investigating and scrutinising every detail of this despicable act, identifying all parties involved, including instigators, sponsors, and orchestrators. None of them should escape just punishment.

I know that your meeting will primarily focus on addressing the issue of safeguarding the information space from both external and internal threats. This topic holds importance for all nations, as it significantly contributes to ensuring national security, social stability, and economic development.

We strongly advocate for the systematic and concerted efforts of the global community in establishing unified, legally binding norms and principles governing state conduct in the information domain.

Undoubtedly, the key factor in strengthening the sovereignty and security of nations lies in safeguarding and protecting traditional spiritual and moral values <…>

Russia stands ready for close cooperation with all interested partners to uphold global and regional security and to establish a new multipolar international order that aligns with the interests of the majority of nations.

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🎙️Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s answer to “RIA Novosti” question about another British “package” of military-technical assistance to the Kiev regime

▪︎The pledged delivery by the UK Government of yet another tranche of military aid to its Kiev proxies is an exercise in political expediency.

▪︎On the one hand, London is trying to jump on the bandwagon of US policy of fueling armed conflict in Ukraine. On the other hand, it seeks to shape a favourable media landscape for the visit of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Poland.

▪︎For the ruling Tories the optics are of particular significance ahead of parliamentary elections tentatively scheduled for autumn – because the Labour Party, admittedly, is starting to outshine them as the “party of strong defence”.

▪︎Statements by Rishi Sunak in Warsaw regarding the intention of spending up to 2,5% of GDP on defence by 2030 serve the same purpose. And, of course, London is throwing down the gauntlet to other European countries to get behind its initiative.

▪︎The desperate attempt to alter the disappointing dynamic of the conflict in Ukraine is being undertaken at the expense of British taxpayers. Money that could have been spent on muting the more painful symptoms of the intensely felt “cost of living” crisis are set to irretrievably disappear down the Ukrainian “black hole”.

▪︎It is hardly a coincidence that Kiev has simultaneously decided to cease providing consular services to military-age Ukrainian men living abroad. Clearly holding up its end of the “bargain”, Zelensky’s regime is stepping up mobilisation activities designed to drive more of its own citizens to the frontline of the Western-sponsored proxy conflict against Russia.

❗We know that despite the round-the-clock anti-Russian propaganda many reasonable people in the UK clearly understand that this turn of events is fraught with a catastrophic scenario for Ukraine and the Ukrainians for which official London pretends to care.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to the participants in the 3rd international youth forum Russia-Africa: What Next? (Moscow, April 24, 2024)

💬 Over the past years, this forum has established itself as one of the key platforms for promoting the youth dimension in our cooperation with African countries.

I believe that your mission involves supporting efforts to implement the agreements resulting from last year’s Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg. This meeting at the highest level laid a solid foundation for generating steady momentum in promoting multifaceted ties between Russia and Africa in the near future. The summit’s outcome documents – the Declaration and the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Action Plan 2023–2026 – set forth our converging approaches on these matters.

According to the updated Foreign Policy Concept as approved by President Vladimir Putin on March 31, 2023, one of the unquestionable priorities for us today is to forge lasting strategic partnerships with African countries.

🌍 Russia views the African continent as a global centre with its own unique identity in the emerging multipolar global architecture. The fact that our African friends have made great strides in their national development is a source of great satisfaction for us. This is largely attributable to proactive youth engagement in political, economic and humanitarian processes.

❗️ Russia reaffirms its commitment to helping African countries strengthen their sovereignty and security in all aspects and dimensions.

We will keep up our proactive efforts to promote capacity building in African countries, including by increasing the number of scholarships we award, as well as by opening branches of Russian universities and schools across the continent, and developing a network of open education centres.

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🤝 On April 24, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a traditional meeting with the leadership of the Association of European Businesses in Russia and multiple European trade and industrial associations.

During the event, the Russian side assessed the current geopolitical situation and emphasised risks linked with the increasingly greater politicisation of the trade and economic interaction sphere. The participants openly exchanged opinions on a number of current foreign policy issues, including foreign business operations in Russia.

🌐 April 24 marks the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. Established by the UN General Assembly resolution 73/127 of December 12, 2018, it seeks to promote the values of the United Nations and reaffirm the faith of our peoples in the purposes and principles enshrined in its Charter.

🇺🇳 #UNCharterIsOurRules

From Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the UN Security Council’s open debates “Effective multilateralism through the Defence of the Principles of the UN Charter” (New York, April 24, 2023):

💬 For a little less than 80 years of its existence, the UN has been carrying out the important mission entrusted to it by its founders. For several decades, a basic understanding by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council as regards the supremacy of the charter’s goals and principles guaranteed global security.

• Today, our UN-centric system is going through a deep crisis. The main reason is a striving by some UN members to replace international law and the UN Charter with a certain “rules-based” order.

• Our Western colleagues have been inconvenienced by holding talks based on universal formats, such as the UN, for a long time now. In order to provide an ideological substantiation for the course on undermining multilateralism, they initiated a concept of united “democracies” as opposed to “autocracies.”

• Summits for Democracy, the Alliance for Multilateralism <...> – all these and other non-inclusive projects were designed to thwart talks on the corresponding matters under the auspices of the UN.

❗️ Let's call it what it is: no one authorised the Western minority to speak on behalf of all humankind. Please act decently and respect all members of the international community.

👉 It is our common duty to preserve the United Nations as the hard-won epitome of multilateralism and coordination of international politics. The key to success lies in working together, renouncing claims to anyone's exceptionalism and showing respect for the sovereign equality of states.