Russia Warns West Would Be Responsible For Kiev’s Possible ‘Dirty Bomb’

Washington has declined to comment on whether the ammunition it's supplying to Ukraine includes depleted uranium. Russia warns that if the West provides any uranium armament, it could be considered a “dirty bomb,” with it responsible for the ensuing consequences.

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🇷🇺🇵🇰 Вступительное слово С.В.Лаврова в ходе переговоров с Министром иностранных дел Пакистана Б.Бхутто-Зардари (Москва, 30 января 2023 года)

💬 Пакистан – наш важный внешнеполитический партнёр. Отношения с Вашей страной имеют для нас самостоятельную ценность, не подверженную колебаниям внешнеполитической конъюнктуры.

Безусловно, в период глубинных перемен, которые мы наблюдаем на международной арене, важно продолжать внешнеполитические обмены, сопоставлять позиции, чтобы лучше видеть перспективы продвижения вперед.

С Пакистаном выступаем с близких позиций по большинству актуальных, международных и региональных проблем. Тесно сотрудничаем в ООН, ШОС и на других многосторонних площадках.

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❗️Boris Johnson Lied About Putin Threatening Him — Kremlin

Points from Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov’s daily briefing:

▪Former UK PM Boris Johnson’s claim that Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call is a lie

▪The West abiding by Ukraine’s weapon demands leads to a further escalation of the conflict

▪Russia and NATO are not communicating as the bloc broke off any dialogue with Moscow

▪Russia’s unique services are looking into the recent drone attacks in Iran

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⚡️Kremlin on BoJo's claims about Putin's threat of missile strike: This is not true, or rather lie

Putin told Johnson that if Ukraine joins NATO, the potential deployment of NATO or US missiles at Russia’s borders would mean that any missile would reach Moscow in a matter of minutes, the Kremlin says

❗️Russia's Lavrov is sure that the United States will impede Russia-Pakistan cooperation in the energy sector.

At the same time, he expressed hope for progress on the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline.

On its part, the Pakistani FM expressed hope that third countries would not interfere in oil trade between Moscow and Islamabad.

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Press review: Who attacked Iran’s military facility and Czechs pick pro-Kiev president

Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, January 30th

⚡Briefing on analysis of US military and biological activity documents by Chief of NBC Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov

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​​◻️We have previously informed about the works on enhancing the pathogenic characteristics of COVID-19 causative agent, carried out at Boston University with funds of the U.S. state budget, as well as the possible involvement of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the emergence of the new coronavirus.

◻️The key role in the implementation of the abovementioned projects belongs to EcoHealth Alliance intermediary organisation. The available documents of the U.S. Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) confirm that since 2015, professionals of the abovementioned company have been studying the diversity in the population of bats, searching for new coronavirus strains, and mechanisms of its transmission from animals to humans. Over 2.5 thousand specimen have been researched.

◻️The project on zoonotic virus research in South-East Asia contain the following recommendations for the employees of EcoHealth Alliance: '... If any of the experiments proposed for Aim 1 result in a virus with a phenotype of enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility, enhanced growth by more than 10 fold when compared to wild type strains …, the recipient must immediately stop the work and notify the NIAID Program Officer, Grants Management Specialist, and appropriate institutional biosafety committee ...'

◻️The high degree of readiness of the U.S. mRNA vaccine manufacturers for a pandemic of the new coronavirus infection raises questions. One gets the impression that pharmaceutical companies had produced the vaccine preparations in advance, being unable to rapidly introduce them into the market due to specific characteristics of the virus that embodied in low efficiency of vaccination and numerous side effects.

◻️It is to be reminded that on 18 October 2019, two months before the first official reports about the emergence of the new coronavirus infection in China, the John Hopkins University, supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted Event 201 exercise in New York.

◻️This exercise simulated the epidemic of a previously unknown coronavirus that, according to the scenario, was transmitted from bats to humans via pigs, the intermediate host.

◻️Outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic precisely according to this scenario raises questions about its premeditated nature, involvement of the USA in this incident, as well as real objectives of the U.S. biological programmes aimed at enhancing the characteristics of dangerous pathogens.

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Ambassador Gennady Gatilov:

💥 On January 28, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) carried out a missile attack on a hospital in Novoaidar (LPR, Russia). 14 people were killed and another 24 sustained various injuries as a result of the attack. Unlike Ukraine, which regularly deploys its military personnel and heavy weapons at civilian facilities, this Russian medical facility was used for its intended purpose – to provide emergency medical care.

🤐 Despite the fact that two days have already passed since the tragedy, the relevant international structures continue to remain bashfully silent, pretending not to notice another flagrant crime of the AFU.

❗️ We call on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the HRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization to publicly condemn the barbarism of the AFU in Novoaidar. Otherwise, the silence of these organizations will be considered as another confirmation of their growing politicization and bias.

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

During Boris Johnson’s telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 2, 2022 former UK PM apparently perceived a looming threat coming from the Russian side of a missile strike directed against him personally.

While intentionally violating the privacy of leaders’ conversation Mr Johnson also managed to distort its content and give it exactly the opposite meaning. Speaking of threats President Putin stressed that should NATO missiles be deployed near the Russia-Ukraine border, their flying time to central Russia, including Moscow, would be reduced to 7-8 minutes.

❗️Such statements only lead to further escalation of the acute military and political tensions in the European continent, in which the UK is getting more and more involved by the day.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

📍 Moscow, January 30, 2023

💬 Mr Minister,

We are delighted to welcome you to Moscow.

I would like to offer our condolences in connection with a tragic road accident in Baluchistan that killed over 40 people. Please convey my sympathy and support to the families and friends of the deceased.

This is your first visit to Russia as Foreign Minister of Pakistan. It is symbolic that your visit is taking place ahead of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries. We will mark this date in May 2023.

🇷🇺🇵🇰 Pakistan is our important foreign political partner. Relations with your country have intrinsic value for Russia and remain unaffected by changing, time-serving foreign policy considerations. Certainly, it is important to continue foreign policy exchanges and to compare our positions at this time of profound changes that we are witnessing on the international scene. This will make it possible to better see prospects for our movement forward.

Pakistan and Russia share similar positions on most topical international and regional issues. We cooperate closely at the UN, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and other venues.

🤝 Both Moscow and Islamabad strive to expand their bilateral interaction, primarily in the energy sphere and in other economic sectors.

I believe that your visit is quite timely. Thank you for accepting our invitation. I am counting on a useful discussion.

‘Crimea Will Never Again Be Part of Ukraine’ — Croatian President

"It is clear that Crimea will never again be part of Ukraine," Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said on Monday.

During a visit to a military barracks in the eastern town of Petrinja, Milanovic spoke about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and his objection to Zagreb providing military aid to Kiev.

“What the West is doing about Ukraine is deeply immoral because there is no solution [to the war]," Milanovic told reporters, adding that Germany agreeing to provide tanks for Ukraine would only serve to drive Russia closer to China.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ The Kremlin is confident in the correctness of launching the special operation; it was necessary to save people in Donbass;

▪️ Poroshenko, Merkel, and Hollande confirmed that for their countries, the Minsk agreements were a front for preparing for a military scenario in Donbass;

▪️ Putin will visit Volgograd on February 2; there will be celebration dedicated to the anniversary of the victory at the Battle of Stalingrad;

▪️ The growing involvement of the West in the conflict in Ukraine is obvious; Russia takes it into account, but this will not change the course of events;

▪️ The Baltic countries and Poland are ready to do everything to provoke further confrontation with Russia, with little thought about the consequences.

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

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

💥In Kupyansk direction, artillery of the 'Zapad' Group of Forces hit manpower and hardware of the 114th and 104rd territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near the settlements of Masyutovka and Tabayevka (Kharkov region).

◻️The enemy's losses in this direction during the day amounted to 45 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, a motor vehicle, and a D-20 howitzer.

💥In Krasny Liman direction, units of the 25th Airborne and 95th airborne assault brigades of the AFU close to Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as Serebryansky forest area, were hit by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems.

◻️More than 60 Ukrainian troops and four armoured fighting vehicles were neutralised.

💥In Donetsk direction, as a result of a successful offensive, volunteers of assault groups, supported by fire of Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the 'Yug' Group of Forces, have liberated the village of Blagodatnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

◻️Up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, a French Caesar self-propelled artillery system, a US-made M-777 artillery system, and an MSTA-B howitzer have been eliminated in this area during the day.

💥In South Donetsk direction, the 'Vostok' Group of Forces hit units of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Ugledar and the 110th Territorial Defence Brigade Novopol (Donetsk People's Republic).

◻️Over 40 servicemen, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickup trucks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been neutralised in this direction.

◻️In addition, two artillery ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed near the towns of Ugledar and Katerynovka in (Donetsk People's Republic).

💥In Kherson direction, two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery units and two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Mikhailovka and Zmiyevka (Kherson region) were destroyed as part of a counter-battery operation.

💥Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 84 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, enemy's manpower and hardware in 126 areas during the day.

💥Russian air defence facilities have shot down one Mi-8 helicopter of Ukrainian Air Force near Zolotaya Balka (Kherson region).

◻️Five UAVs were also intercepted in the areas of Kryvosheyevka, Oborotnovka, Krasnorechenskoye, Vladimirovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and Belogrudovo (Kherson region).
Moreover, three US-made HIMARS MLRS shells were intercepted near the settlements of Zlatoustovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Skadovsk (Kherson region).

📊In total, 381 airplanes and 206 helicopters, 2,987 unmanned aerial vehicles, 402 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,691 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 997 combat vehicles equipped with multiple launch rocket systems, 3,970 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 8,229 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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⚡️Northern Fleet warships, led by the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, rescues a French citizen from a yacht in distress in the Atlantic Ocean

◽️ The medium tanker Kama, part of the Northern Fleet's warship detachment on a long-distance mission in the central Atlantic Ocean, received an emergency signal from a yacht in distress. To assist the crew, the Kama deviated from its route and headed towards the area of the accident.

◽️ An boarding team went aboard the yacht to get one man with his personal belongings and his dog on board of the Russian tanker

◽️ The rescued man is Lucas Monteux, a French resident, who was sailing solo in the Atlantic. During the storm, the boat's steering gear malfunctioned and water started flowing in. After an unsuccessful attempt to rectify the fault, he signalled a distress call.

◽️ On board the Kama tanker, the rescued traveller was given first aid. At his request, he will be taken to the nearest port.

◽️ Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, thanked the crew of the Northern Fleet warships and the crew of the tanker Kama for their professional actions in helping a yacht in distress on the high seas.

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🇫🇷 "We must condemn the lies of the West about Russia" — grandson of Charles de Gaulle

The ban on the broadcasting of Russian media goes against the values that France stands for, politician and public figure Pierre de Gaulle said in an interview with Sputnik.

"France is basically a democratic country where everyone can express their opinion. Silencing certain media outlets, whatever their position and whatever their role, is not in the order of things."

De Gaulle also spoke about relations between Russia and the West.

"The West does not know Russia, the Russian people and their culture well. And I think that's what we have to work on to get closer to the world. And we must also condemn the lies about Russia and the West's incorrect perception of it."

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