❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on February 17

▪️Ukrainian drone attempted to attack Balaklava thermal power plant on the Crimean peninsula.

Russian means intercepted the vehicle on approach, the plant was not damaged.

▪️Ukrainian formations shelled the border settlements of Suzhansky and Glushkovsky districts of Kursk region.

Gornal' and Guevo, as well as Krasnooktyabr'skiy were targeted AFU. Civilians were not harmed.

▪️In Belgorod region, the enemy struck at Shebekino and Novaya Tavolzhanka.

Residential buildings and power lines were damaged and one woman was injured.

▪️In Lyman sector, AFU units attempted to take back lost positions near Ploshchanka.

Russian troops parried the attack, the enemy retreated to their initial positions with losses.

▪️Wagner PMC units managed to fully liberate Paraskoviivka as a result of fierce fighting. The adversary had to retreat and abandon the remains of its equipment and ammunition.

Simultaneously, Russian troops are advancing in Orikhovo-Vasylivka and Berkhivka directions.

▪️Fierce fighting continues in the urban outskirts of Bakhmut.

Russian assault squads carry out sorties against enemy positions near Bakhmut nursery in Yahidne.

▪️To the south-west, Russian assault units have advanced close to the outskirts of Ivanivske, advancing from the south and south-east.

Ukrainian commanders hastily redeploy additional forces to the area in attempt to hold the settlement and regain control of the road to Kostyantynivka.
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🇷🇺Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a working meeting with heads of foreign media bureaus accredited in Russia, Moscow, February 15, 2023

We try to make sure that our work with foreign journalists is as efficient, straightforward and simple as possible. We organise regular press tours all over the country to help you see how our country and its regions and people live. Most of them are open, friendly and willing to communicate.

We are not doing this to set ourselves apart from Western countries. They do not encourage practices of this kind, all while positioning themselves as beacons of democracy. In reality, what they are doing is censorship. They are cleansing their media space from alternative points of view and are fighting dissent in all its manifestations. They are trying to cancel Russian journalists and media outlets by labelling them Kremlin’s mouthpieces. The ugly situation with two major media outlets, RT and Sputnik, provides a telling example. It was not the special military operation that led to the onslaught of censorship and discrimination against them. The Élysée Palace officially denied RT and Sputnik accreditation five years ago, and it was President of France Emmanuel Macron himself who explained that the move was caused by the fact that they were not media outlets, but “agents of influence and a source of misleading propaganda.”

🎙️Statement by Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nation Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing dedicated to the anniversary of resolution 2202 that endorsed the Minsk Package of Measures (17 February 2023)

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🔹The recent revelations by F.Hollande, A.Merkel, and B.Johnson leave no space to doubt that the West merely imitated a constructive process as regards the Minsk Agreements implementation.

🔹OSCE staff did not bother to notice the Russophobia and aggressive Ukrainian nationalist narrative that were thriving in Ukraine.

🔹Renunciation of the #MinskAgreements was a tragedy for Ukraine that happened due to criminal policies of Ukrainian leadership who were instigated by the collective West.

❗ Colleagues, now I speak to Western membership of the Council. We will not be able to live on as we used to, that’s for sure.

The second day of the Munich Conference brought another "sensation". This time, US Vice President Kamala Harris accused Russia of crimes against humanity, retelling Ukrainian tales about allegedly dead women in labor during the shelling of the Mariupol hospital, converted by the Azov militants* into another stronghold. At the same time, of course, the Vice President of the United States did not demonstrate any evidence, even the notorious "Colin Powell test tube".
As previously reported The Russian Ministry of Defense, at the time of the strike on the building of the former hospital, all staff and patients had already been dispersed by militants. It is obvious that based on this kind of "non—fictional stories about which it is impossible to remain silent", the United States authorities are deliberately shaping a new world scarecrow out of Russia and its leadership with an understandable goal - to declare a new "crusade" against our country by manipulating public opinion in Western democracies.

⚡️ "Have we Europe become such lackeys of the United States that we are afraid to even ask them: who blew up the North Streams?"

Irish Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament, urged the head of the European Commission to pay attention to the investigation by the respected American journalist Hersh.