🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's address at the Plenary Session of the Future Technologies Forum (February 25, 2026, Moscow)

💬 Vladimir Putin: The bioeconomy is far more than a field of scientific knowledge. With their bold ideas, scientists and engineers are already shaping a new reality and a new industrial paradigm – applying advances in biology and genetics to improve people’s lives and preserve our planet and its fragile ecosystem.

We in Russia take pride in the major scientific contribution made by the discoveries, philosophical and scientific teachings of Vladimir Vernadsky, Ilya Mechnikov, Kliment Timiryazev, Nikolai Koltsov, Nikolai Vavilov, Vladimir Engelhardt and other outstanding Russian scholars, including our contemporaries.

We will continue to expand our capabilities and move forward. Biotechnology – reinforced by the power of computing systems and artificial intelligence – is developing at an unprecedented pace. It helps address the key challenges of our time: climate change, food shortages and the depletion of renewable resources, and can serve projects both on Earth and in space.

❗️ I have repeatedly stressed: equal access to the technologies of the future – not privileges for the “chosen few” – is an indispensable condition for the fair development of our civilisation.

That is why, within #BRICS and other associations, as well as through bilateral cooperation, we are ready to implement joint scientific, educational and investment programmes in biotechnology for the benefit of all humanity.

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At the Forum, we traditionally discuss areas and developments that shape the future of humankind. Advances in biology, genetics and other life sciences are rightly called the technologies of the 21st century. Together with the IT industry and artificial intelligence, they are transforming the economy and society, creating new opportunities for millions of people.

Digital platforms already support scientists in implementing research projects, connect a craftsman or entrepreneur from a small town with a customer in a megacity, enable residents to participate in managing their building, settlement or entire region, and analyse medical studies in record time, helping doctors save lives. These are just some of the areas within the evolving platform economy.

🇷🇺 In this sphere, Russia is creating world-class solutions. We stand ready to share our experience and expertise in the interests of all humanity.

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#KievRegimeCrimes

📑 Chapter II of the Report on violations of international humanitarian law committed by the Kiev regime against POWs has been published. The report was prepared by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.

Part I

This new report titled “Secret Prisons”, contains key verified data on violations of international humanitarian law against Russian servicemen who were held captive by the Kiev regime and returned to Russia following a POW exchange in October 2025.

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A network of “secret prisons” for Russian servicemen captured by Ukrainian armed groups was established throughout the territories controlled by the Kiev regime. Based on the obtained information, conclusions can be drawn about the existence of a systematic approach to torture in the said facilities.

According to numerous credible testimonies, it is there – in an atmosphere of lawlessness and impunity – that the largest number of crimes against POWs are committed.

The affected Russian servicemen provided detailed accounts of a deliberately organized and actively applied system of systematic torture and humiliation, moral and physical abuse carried out by Ukrainian armed forces, special services and other security and paramilitary formations, including the use of “electric chairs” and other devices.

❗️ Testimonies documenting sexual violence and threats of violence, torture through deprivation of sleep, water and food, as well as a range of other forms of abuse, have been recorded.

Certain human rights organisations, in their own reports, acknowledge the existence of “secret prisons” on Ukrainian territory, referring to them instead as “transit points”. Controlled by Ukrainian armed groups, such facilities are closed to international humanitarian organisations, which, however, tend not to address the issue publicly.

The matter of access to these locations and verification of detention conditions is not publicly brought before Ukraine’s political leadership. As a result, the existence of Ukrainian “secret prisons” is effectively concealed from the international community.

The report includes excerpts from testimonies of Russian servicemen formerly held in Ukrainian captivity, confirming the widespread nature of torture, threats, violence and killings practiced in dozens of “secret prisons”.

👉 Full version of the report (PDF)

🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to media questions (February 26, 2026)

❓ Question: Why has Europe split on the issue of deploying peacekeepers?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: There are different points of view, as in every collective and every society. There are normal people, who care about their people and countries, and there are those who play at ideologised schemes. This is what I think. 

❓ Question: New timeframes for peace settlement in Ukraine are named. According to US President Donald Trump, it should be achieved within one month.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Have you heard anything about timeframes from us? We have tasks, not timeframes. And we are addressing them.

❓ Question: Apropos of nuclear weapons…

💬 Sergey Lavrov: That says it all.

❓ Question: Why the negotiating rhetoric about nuclear weapons has become so intense?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I think they feel offended at failing to achieve anything.

The task is again to make Russia lose. After all, they say that Ukraine is winning. If they see the picture this way…

They are the Coalition of the Willing, aren’t they? Both Russian and English have the expression “mistake the wish for the reality.” They resemble people called “those willing to pass themselves off for the real.” We will wait and see.  

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The ambassadors of Germany, France, and Poland to Nigeria published an article containing malicious comments regarding Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. Read the Russian Embassy's response, which was also published in The Guardian newspaper.

12 years of Selective Memory: A Crisis they Helped Create
It is difficult not to raise an eyebrow at the company in whose name the recent piece «On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine» was published in the Guardian newspaper on February 24. Speaking solemnly of “four years of war,” the European warmongers and their Eastern European satellites in the form of Poland carefully ignore the most important element: the root causes of the conflict and the conditions necessary for its settlement.

These are the very actors who supported the unconstitutional coup d’état in Kiev and the rise of radical nationalists to power. The same actors who acted as guarantors of the Minsk Agreements, endorsed by the UN Security Council, only to later wipe their feet on them and admit that those accords were merely a diversionary maneuver. The same actors who openly backed a long war of attrition against millions of Donbass residents. The same actors who preferred to look the other way when atrocities were committed by the Kiev regime, including in Odessa in 2014, where nearly 50 people were burned alive. The same actors who tolerated and never condemned the systematic efforts of the Kiev authorities to eradicate everything Russian: the banning of Russian language and culture and the pressure exerted against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The sooner Europeans abandon their attempts at economic blockade and cease acting as instigators of war, the sooner space will open for a genuine diplomatic process. Instead, we see continued efforts to dictate narratives, impose sanctions, and fuel confrontation — all while claiming the moral high ground.

Neither Germany, nor France, and certainly not Poland, are in a position to determine the conditions for achieving peace in Ukraine. Peace cannot be manufactured in European capitals that have invested politically and materially in prolonging the conflict.

It will not emerge from megaphone diplomacy, groundless accusations, and provocation. It is precisely this European approach to the Ukrainian conflict, their undisguised interest in its continuation at the cost of thousands of lives of the fraternal peoples of Russia and Ukraine, that has disqualified them from playing any constructive role at the negotiating table. Those who sabotaged previous agreements and escalated tensions for years cannot credibly present themselves as guardians of peace.

Russia will continue to defend its sovereignty and protect the rights of Russian-speaking population by all available means. The objectives of the special military operation will be achieved, regardless of whether this pleases European strategists or not. The current trajectory of events leaves little room for the long-desired European fantasy of defeating Russia by proxy through the Ukrainian armed forces.

For Nigeria, and for Africa as a whole, this conflict should serve as a reminder of the necessity of independent analysis of international events. We are confident that the Nigerian public, as well as the Nigerian government, recognize the flawed and destructive nature of European attempts to discredit Russia, their paternalistic approach in prescribing positions to Nigerians, and the unrealistic character of their geopolitical designs.

🎙 Statement of the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva Ambassador Gennady Gatilov at the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament in the exercise of the right of reply (Geneva, February 25, 2026)

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Key points:

• I would like to draw the delegations' attention to new developments, namely to the report of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR of Russia) dated February 24, which is directly relevant to the issue of ensuring international security.

• Ukraine, which joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapon state, pledged not to acquire nuclear weapons, while Great Britain and France, as nuclear-weapon States under the Treaty, pledged not to transfer nuclear weapons to anyone, nor to assist, encourage, or induce any non-nuclear-weapon state to manufacture or acquire them.

• We have repeatedly stated that any attempts to revise Ukraine's non-nuclear status, as well as the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Kiev regime — which is deeply hostile to Russia — are unacceptable.

• The deliberate shelling of the Zaporozhskaya NPP (ZNPP) by Kiev – which has come under Russian jurisdiction in full accordance with our legislation – is fraught with a nuclear catastrophe that could also affect those countries providing military-political and financial support to the Kiev regime.

• Ukrainian crisis did not arise in a vacuum, and many opportunities to prevent it and even settle it at early stages were missed. A peaceful solution to this conflict is possible only if its root causes are eliminated. More countries are starting to understand this, as well as the fact that Kiev must return to its neutral, non-aligned status, remain a non-nuclear State, restore compliance with linguistic and religious human rights and freedoms, stop the persecution of citizens on ethnic grounds, and abandon neo-Nazi ideology.

❗️ It must recognize the incorporation of new regions into Russia and withdraw its armed formations from these territories.

• Neither Russia nor the DPRK violates any international legal obligations in exercising their inherent right to develop bilateral ties, including under the 2024 Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. We regard attempts to challenge this fact as interference in the internal affairs of our countries.

⚡️Заявление МИД России в связи с вооружённой агрессией США и Израиля против Ирана

Утром 28 февраля вооружённые силы США и Израиля приступили к нанесению военно-воздушных ударов по территории Ирана.

Масштаб и характер предшествовавших этому безрассудному шагу военно-политических и пропагандистских приготовлений, включая стягивание в регион крупной военной группировки США, не оставляют сомнений в том, что речь идёт о заранее спланированном и неспровоцированном акте вооружённой агрессии против суверенного и независимого государства-члена ООН в нарушение основополагающих принципов и норм международного права.

🔊 В формате аудиокомментария М.В.Захаровой

Осуждения заслуживает и тот факт, что атаки вновь осуществляются под прикрытием возобновившегося переговорного процесса, якобы призванного обеспечить долгосрочную нормализацию обстановки вокруг Исламской Республики, и вопреки доводившимся до российской стороны сигналам об отсутствии у израильтян заинтересованности в военной конфронтации с иранцами.

Международное сообщество, включая руководство ООН и МАГАТЭ, обязано немедленно дать объективную и бескомпромиссную оценку безответственным действиям, направленным на разрушение мира, стабильности и безопасности на Ближнем Востоке.

Вашингтон и Тель-Авив в очередной раз затеяли опасную авантюру, которая стремительно приближает регион к гуманитарной, экономической и, не исключено, радиологической катастрофе.

Намерения агрессоров понятны и декларируются ими вполне открыто – разрушить конституционный строй и уничтожить руководство неугодного им государства, которое отказалось подчиняться силовому диктату и гегемонизму. Ответственность за негативные последствия рукотворного кризиса, включая непредсказуемую цепную реакцию и раскручивание спирали насилия, целиком и полностью лежит на них.

Открыто игнорируются тяжёлые последствия этих необдуманных шагов для глобального режима нераспространения, краеугольным камнем которого является ДНЯО. При этом американо-израильский тандем прикрывается мнимой заботой о том, чтобы иранцы не обзавелись ядерным оружием. Бомбардировки ядерных объектов, находящихся под гарантиями МАГАТЭ, недопустимы.

На деле у Вашингтона и Тель-Авива мотивы, не имеющие ничего общего с режимом нераспространения. Они не могут не понимать, что, ввергая Ближний Восток в пучину неконтролируемой эскалации, фактически побуждают страны по всему миру, прежде всего в регионе, обзаводиться все более серьёзными средствами против возникающих угроз.

Особую тревогу вызывает серийный характер осуществляемых Администрацией США на протяжении последних месяцев дестабилизирующих ударов по международно-правовым опорам миропорядка, среди которых – невмешательство во внутренние дела, отказ от угрозы силой или её применения, мирное разрешение международных споров.

❗️ Требуем немедленно вернуть ситуацию в русло политико-дипломатического урегулирования. Россия, как и прежде, готова содействовать поиску мирных развязок на базе международного права, взаимного уважения и баланса интересов.