🇷🇺🇹🇷📞At the initiative of the Turkish side, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held telephone conversation with the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Turkey Hulusi Akar.

▫️The main focus was an exchange of views and assessments of the situation in Ukraine and Syria.

▫️The Defence Ministers discussed in detail the security of navigation in the Black Sea in connection with solving the problem of grain export from the territory of Ukraine.

▫️The importance of continuing close interaction in Syria aimed at maintaining long-term stability in the region was noted.

▫️Russian-Turkish contacts on these issues will continue.

@mod_russia_en

The Russians hit Ukrainian positions in Dolgenkoe with something that left a 40 meter wide crater

For our Chinese comrades.

Ukrainian servicemen are being trained to use Maxim machinegun (Soviet made in 1940). By the way - they communicate in Russian.

"If the Russian foreign minister's visit to Serbia is perceived as a threat on a universal scale, things must be very bad in the West."

Lavrov said the decision by Bulgaria, Northern Macedonia and Montenegro to close airspace to his plane was a denial of a sovereign state's right to conduct foreign policy:

"This is another very clear and instructive demonstration of how far NATO and the EU can go in employing the lowest possible means of influencing those who are guided by national interests, not ready to sacrifice their principles, their dignity in favour of the very rules that the West imposes instead of international law."

@rt_russian

Is Lend-Lease free? A historical excursion into the past will help make sense of it.
History is cyclical and it is enough to find out who benefits from the war to understand what is happening in the present and not to make mistakes in the future. Sanctions as a way of conducting economic hybrid warfare are demonstrated to us today by the USA.

⚠️ It has been reliably established that fighters of the nationalist battalions, leaving the captured territories and refusing to leave supplies of grain to Mariupol residents, deliberately set fire to a large grain storage facility in the seaport.

▫️As a result, more than 50,000 tonnes of grain have been burnt.

▫️This inhumane crime shows the world community the "true face" of the Kiev regime, which, in fact, uses methods of food terrorism against its own people.

▫️All this is taking place in the context of the full support of the countries of the so-called civilised West and the ongoing hysteria around the false accusations of the Russian Federation in creating a food crisis in the world.

❗️We emphasize once again that in carrying out the tasks of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation treat the local population extremely humanely and do not strike at civilian infrastructure facilities, unlike the Ukrainian armed formations.

➡️ More

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
@mod_russia_en

The crew of the Su-24 wishes you a good morning!

📹Crews of multi-purpose Mi-35 attack helicopters of the Western MD's Army Aviation during the special military operation

💥 Another combat mission resulted in the destruction of command posts and armoured vehicles of AFU units.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Mi35
@mod_russia_en

🇱🇹🇪🇪The Estonian island faces a blockade due to Lithuania's greed and anti-Russian sanctions.

Estonia's second largest island Hiiumaa may be left without air service to land.

Previously, the Lithuanian airline Transaviabaltika sent planes to it, but it canceled all flights after June 15.

Now the Lithuanians are demanding an additional €300,000 from the Estonian Transport Department for route maintenance due to rising fuel prices.

Otherwise, almost 10 thousand people may be left without normal transport and medical care.

Baltic solidarity in action.

A rally against LGBT people was held in Georgia.

People gathered at the EU office in Tbilisi with posters on which photos of European diplomats were crossed out, reports @SputnikGeorgia.

The protesters tried to burn the rainbow flag. Several people were detained by the police.

For some reason, the Georgian opposition channels have already dubbed the rally "pro-Russian". The logic seems to be this: if you are against LGBT, it means for Russia.

🇪🇺🇷🇺Russia has hit the most painful place in Europe — energy, writes Bloomberg.

Europe's steps have led to a split within the EU, and many countries are "tired of sanctions," the author of the article claims.

Moreover, according to Bloomberg Economics, Russia's oil and gas revenues will amount to about $285 billion this year, which will compensate for the freezing of Russian foreign exchange reserves.

The paradox: The sanctions are imposed by the European Union, and Russia is to blame and "beats".