⚡️Мишустин заявил, что с 1 марта пенсии жителям новых регионов будут назначаться по российским нормам.

⚡️Mishustin said that from March 1, pensions for residents of the new regions will be assigned according to Russian norms.

Press review: More tanks for Ukraine and Moscow rebuilding presence in Africa

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, January 26th

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States

The U.S. keeps “brandishing” with their illegitimate sanctions threats. Another "portion" of restrictions against Russia was announced on January 26th.

With each new wave of economic barriers, the inefficiency and absurdity of this approach becomes more obvious. Russia is successfully resisting attempts to impose a line of behavior chosen by the United States. Such “stress checks” are not new to us.

☝️We are convinced that foreign entrepreneurs and commercial companies are the first to suffer from the constant expansion of restrictive measures. Opportunities to continue their mutually beneficial cooperation with Russian partners are constantly shrinking.

Despite all the sanctions, our market remains attractive, including for foreign investors. It adapts to new conditions.

❗️Russia has been and remains open to establishing business contacts. But only on the basis of an honest approach, while maintaining market, competitive conditions for doing business.

What the hell democracy? What values? Lithium, oil, and gold.

Laura Richardson, the commander of the US Southern Command, explains to Americans why it is critical to combat Russian influence in Latin America.

"We’ve got a Lithium Triangle, which is needed for technology today.

60% of the world’s lithium is in the Lithium Triangle – Argentina-Bolivia-Chile.

You have Venezuela’s resources as well with oil, copper, gold.

We have the Amazon, there is 31% of the world’s fresh water in this region, too.

I think we have a lot at stake... This region matters. It has a lot to do with national security and we have to step up our game."

Who could remind L. Richardson that it's not they who "have the Amazon"? ... Actually, it belongs to Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.

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🕯 Выражаем глубокие соболезнования азербайджанской стороне в связи с нападением на Посольство Азербайджана в Тегеране. Согласно поступающей информации, сегодня утром вооружённый автоматом человек проник в здание дипмиссии и открыл огонь. В результате погиб один сотрудник азербайджанской дипмиссии, еще двое его коллег получили ранения. Нападавший задержан полицией Тегерана, ведётся расследование.

Рассчитываем, что все виновные будут привлечены к ответственности.

☝️ Произошедшее в очередной раз подтверждает важность обеспечения властями государства пребывания безопасной работы дипломатических представительств в соответствии с Венской конвенцией о дипломатических сношениях от 18 апреля 1961 года.

The USA has always pursued hegemonism, unilateralism and interventionism. The country frequently uses force, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties. Its abusive use of unilateral sanctions has caused humanitarian crises, challenging justice with hegemony, trampling on righteousness with self-interest, and wantonly violating human rights in other countries. It has become the biggest obstacle and destroyer of the sound development of the international human rights cause.

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⚡ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (27 January 2023)

📄 Part I (read Part II)

💥 On 26 January, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a massive missile attack, using high-precision long-range air- and sea-based armament, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, against the power facilities that operate Ukraine's defence industrial complex and transport system. The goals of the massive attack have been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

◽️ The attack has resulted in the frustration of armament and munition transportation to the operations area, including those sent by NATO countries. The production capacities of the entities, tasked to repair and restore the military hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), have been disrupted.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

💥 In Kupyansk direction, the artillery of the 'Zapad' Group of Forces has neutralised the manpower and hardware of the units from 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade near Peschanoye, and 14th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Sinkovka (Kharkov region).

◽️ Over 30 Ukrainian personnel, 2 motor vehicles, 1 U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery system, and 1 D-20 howitzer have been eliminated.

💥 In Krasny Liman direction, Army Aviation and the artillery of the 'Tsentr' Group of Forces have neutralised the units from 24th and 92nd mechanised brigades of the AFU near Ostrovskoye (Kharkov region), and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic).

◽️ The enemy has lost up to 40 personnel, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, 1 D-20 howitzer, and 1 U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery system.

◽️ 1 AFU artillery ordnance depot has been destroyed near Shchurovo (Donetsk People's Republic).

💥 In Donetsk direction, the offensive operations conducted by the 'Yug' Group of Forces have resulted in the elimination of over 80 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 pickups, 1 D-20 howitzer, 2 D-30 howitzers, 1 Msta-B howitzer, 1 U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin artillery system, and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery warfare radar.

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⚡ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (27 January 2023)

📄 Part II (read Part I)

💥 In South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the units of the 'Vostok' Group of Forces continued their offensive operations, gained new advantageous lines, and neutralised the units from 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Ugledar, as well as 108th Territorial Defence Brigade near Prechistovka and Novosyolka (Donetsk People's Republic).

◽️ The AFU have lost up to 65 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 1 D-20 howitzer, 3 motor vehicles, and 2 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radars in the abovementioned directions.

💥 In Kherson direction, counterbattery warfare operation has resulted in the destruction of 1 Grad multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS), 1 U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery system, and one AFU ordnance depot.

💥 Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 79 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 102 areas.

◽️ 1 Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile system has been destroyed near Senkovo (Kharkov region).

💥 Russian air defence facilities have shot down 1 Su-25 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Ugledar (Donetsk People's Republic).

◽️ Moreover, 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed near Berestovoye (Kharkov region), Proletarka, Malaya Kardashinka (Kherson region), Mirnoye (Zaporozhye region), Kremennaya, Oborotnovka, Barannikovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Ugledar, Novomayorskoye, and Nikolskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

◽️ In addition, 14 rocket-propelled projectiles, launched by Olkha, Uragan and HIMARS MLRS, have been intercepted near Popasnaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Vladimirovka, Valeryanovka, Komsomolsky (Donetsk People's Republic), and Radensk (Kherson region).

📊 In total, 380 airplanes, 204 helicopters, 2,967 unmanned aerial vehicles, 402 air defence missile systems, 7,644 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 991 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,932 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 8,191 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a joint news conference with Foreign Minister of the State of Eritrea Osman Saleh

📍 Massawa, January 26, 2023

💬 The establishment of a multi-polar world is an objective and unstoppable process. The collective West – the United States, NATO and the EU, which are fully controlled by Washington – are trying to reverse this process. But these efforts are futile. The closest thing they can count on is a slight slowdown of the objective course of history.

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🌍 Africa is one of the most serious centres with colossal potential. It is an extremely affluent continent, including when it comes to natural resources, which have been exploited for many centuries. The West wishes it could continue this exploitative policy in Africa.

As far as I understand, the President of Angola proposed convening a summit of the African Union to determine Africa’s place in the emerging world order, primarily in the context of economic development.

We observe similar tendencies in Latin America, where the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, in view of its resumed work and Brazil’s full-fledged participation, considers developing its own mechanisms of monetary relations (even a common currency). The main goal is to protect themselves from the West-controlled chains and mechanisms that have demonstrated their unreliability.

Strengthening regional identity in the developing regions of the world does not mean that multi-polarity is not happening in a global dimension. BRICS is a manifestation of global multi-polarity. This organisation unites five countries, with more than 12 others showing an interest in joining it.

☝️ The clock of multi-polar history is ticking in the right direction.

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💬 20 января на военной базе США в германском Рамштайне состоялось восьмое заседание так называемой Контактной группы по оборонному Содействию Украине. Итоги этой сходки однозначно свидетельствуют о полной безответственности Запада и стремлении к дальнейшей эскалации конфликта. Натовские страны подтвердили, что будут наращивать поставки Киеву современных тяжёлых наступательных вооружений.

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Удивительно, как одни и те же люди [Генеральный секретарь НАТО Й.Столтенберг] умудряются говорить, что они «не являются стороной конфликта», поскольку они «не собираются направлять пехоту и самолёты». А танки поставлять можно? Я пытаюсь найти какую-то логику, какой-то смысл. Это преступное лицемерие.

Страны-члены НАТО при его активном содействии и координации поставляют Киеву вооружения, военную технику, обучают военнослужащих вооруженных сил Украины, накачивают Украину деньгами, лишь бы она продолжала боевые действия против нашей страны.

Глава МИД Германии Анналена Бербок прямо заявила, что «…ведётся война с Россией».

Именно натовским оружием убивают мирных людей и разрушают гражданскую инфраструктуру новых субъектов Российской Федерации. Таким образом, страны НАТО де-факто становятся соучастниками преступлений киевского режима.

☝️ При этом они должны помнить, что ответственность за них не имеет срока давности. Как и заявления А.Меркель, заявления А.Бербок – это доказательная база.

🇷🇺🇺🇳 О российско-ооновских консультациях по вопросам обеспечения глобальной продовольственной безопасности

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26 января заместитель Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации С.В.Вершинин с участием представителей заинтересованных российских ведомств и компаний провёл очередной раунд очных консультаций с делегацией ООН во главе с Генеральным секретарём Конференции ООН по торговле и развитию (ЮНКТАД) Р.Гринспан.

Состоялся развернутый обмен мнениями по всем вопросам выполнения Меморандума Россия-ООН по нормализации отечественного сельхозэкспорта. Собеседники подтвердили «пакетный» характер подписанных в Стамбуле 22 июля 2022 г. соглашений – «черноморской инициативы» по вывозу украинского зерна и российско-ооновского Меморандума, – что предполагает их взаимоувязанную реализацию.

С российской стороны особо отмечалась нерешённость проблемы блокирующего эффекта односторонних санкций США и ЕС, несмотря на все декларативные заявления Вашингтона, Брюсселя и Лондона о якобы нераспространении их рестрикций на агросектор.

По факту же из-за нарушенных в результате санкций финансовых и транспортно-логистических цепочек, запретительных ставок страхования в прошлом году остались недопоставленными на мировые рынки несколько миллионов тонн российских удобрений и продовольствия, что стало одной из причин сохранения завышенных цен на них, прежде всего на аммиак.

Это, в свою очередь, привело к тому, что богатые страны нарастили объемы своих закупок, а бедные государства начали сталкиваться не только с кризисом ценовой доступности сельхозпродукции, но и с её физическим дефицитом.

Кроме того, было выражено общее мнение, что без нормализации российского экспорта зерновых и удобрений имеющиеся угрозы в сфере глобальной продовольственной безопасности продолжат усугубляться и нарастать, что идет вразрез с заявленными целями Стамбульских «пакетных» соглашений по их снижению и помощи наиболее уязвимым странам.

🤔 US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria "F*ck the EU" Nuland at a Senate hearing, January 26, 2023:

💬 “Senator Cruz, I, as well as you, I believe, along with the [Biden] administration, are very pleased to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you say, a pile of scrap metal at the bottom of the sea.”

❓ Victoria Nuland’s words are a reason to once again think about who benefited from the explosion on the NordStream pipeline.

Vladimir Putin Speaks On Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'Horrible Tragedies Occur if Lessons of History are Forgotten'

"We remember the dramatic moment when the Red Army liberated prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oświęcim) concentration camp during WW2."

"It was primarily the Soviet nation that put an end to the barbaric Nazi plans by standing up for the freedom and independence of its motherland, and saving the Jewish people and other ethnic groups from total annihilation and enslavement."

"We must understand that any attempts to revise our country’s contribution to achieving that victory de facto means justifying Nazi crimes, paving the way for the revival of its deadly ideology

"Horrible tragedies can happen again if we forget the lessons of history - as demonstrated by the crimes against civilians, the ethnic cleansing and the punitive operations carried out by neo-Nazis in Ukraine."

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🇺🇸 🌍 The US recently intensified its efforts to win the hearts and minds of the African nations, with Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen currently touring the continent.

Journalist and writer Daniel Lazare has shared his take on Washington's popularity among Africans with Sputnik.

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🇷🇺Russian Embassy in Denmark Condemns Quran Burning in Front of Its Consular Department
ZURICH (Sputnik) - The Russian Embassy in Denmark said on Friday that it condemns the burning of the Quran that took place in front of the embassy's consular department in Copenhagen.
"On January 27, a series of blasphemous actions took place to burn the Quran, a book sacred to Muslims, in front of the building of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Denmark," the diplomatic mission said on Telegram.
The embassy noted that public mockery of the feelings of believers, condoned by Danish authorities, is not a manifestation of freedom of speech and democracy, "but a rude and ignorant provocation designed to incite inter-religious discord and inter-civilizational conflict."
Such political actions should not happen again in the future and all perpetrators should be brought to justice, the embassy added.

Press review: NATO eyes jets for Ukraine and Zelensky seeks to brush away Soledar loss

Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, January 27th

🎙Embassy comment on former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s statements

▪️Whilst in Kiev some days ago, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson added his voice to the score of self-revealing public statements by European politicians that confirm the intentional double-dealing and procrastination by Western states on the issue of a negotiated settlement on Donbass in 2014-2022.

▪️We regret that forgeries, fraud and falsification have become an inalienable part of the Western foreign policy toolbox. This is as ugly as it gets. These methods run counter to the objective of building stable European security, unless the goal is actually the notorious “rules-based world order” NATO and the EU are so fond of.

▪️As for Mr Johnson, we call on him to never forget that thousands of innocent civilians of Donbass have become victims of his and his colleagues’ “diplomatic charade”.

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⚡️ On 28 January, at about 7.30 a.m., the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an intentional attack, using rocket-propelled projectiles of U.S.-manufactured HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system, on the building of district hospital in Novoaydar (Lugansk People's Republic).

◽️ The healthcare facility of Novoaydar was the venue where civilian and military professionals had been providing medical aid to local population and servicemen for many months.

◽️ The impact of the rockets with high-explosive fragmentation warheads has resulted in killing 14 and injuring 24 patients and medical employees of the hospital.

◽️ All the victims are being provided with professional medical aid.

◽️ The intentional missile strike, launched at the obviously known operating civilian healthcare facility, is an undoubted heinous war crime of the Kiev regime.

◽️ All the accomplices will be found and brought to justice for planning and implementing this crime.

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США напрямую причастны к гибели гражданских в Новоайдаре — первый зампостпреда РФ при ООН Дмитрий Полянский

Дмитрий Полянский, первый заместитель постоянного представителя РФ при ООН, написал на своей личной странице в соцсетях, что Вашингтон несет прямую ответственность за унесенные ракетным обстрелом жизни мирных граждан в Новоайдаре — ВСУ согласовывает цели с Вашингтоном.

«Очередное украинское чудовищное военное престутпление.14 мирных жителей погибли в больнице от ракет, поставленных из США. И, как мы знаем от украинских официальных лиц, цели HIMARS согласованы с Вашингтоном. Так что это делает США прямым соучастником. Налогоплательщики США должны знать, как используются их деньги», — написал Дмитрий Полянский.

NATO State ‘Modeling Cyber Strikes’ On Russian Infrastructure — Moscow

Britain has been modeling cyberattacks on Russia’s critical infrastructure, the country’s deputy foreign minister, Oleg Syromolotov, said on Saturday. He added that the simulated hacks included energy facilities and were conducted under NATO guidance.

The deputy minister stated that foreign actors’ attempts to hack Russian government entities have “increased by two to three times” over the last year.

Syromolotov was reacting to a story published by The Times last month, in which Lt. Gen. Tom Copinger-Symes, the deputy commander of the UK’s strategic command, was quoted as saying the National Cyber Force was seeking to recruit people with Russian degrees.

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