🌍 Africa Knows Its Enemy: Ugandan FM Lambasts 'Western Colonizers' for Attempts to Isolate Russia

🗣 “We were colonized, and we forgive those who colonized us. Now the colonizers are asking us to be enemies with Russia, who never colonized us; is that fair? It is not, so for us, their enemies are their enemies, our friends are our friends. There should be exclusion, there should not be an interference on that matter,” Ugandan Foreign Minister Abubaker Jeje Odongo told Sputnik in an interview.

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Four F-16s of the Israeli Air Force launched a missile attack on Damascus — as a result of the bombing in the Syrian capital, the buildings of the Technical Institute and Cultural Center were destroyed

As a result of the strike on Damascus, there are dead and destruction of civilian infrastructure facilities in the city. The Israeli army continues to bomb the Syrian capital, not hesitating to hit its shells on residential buildings and absolutely not regretting civilian casualties.

Despite the growing number of civilian casualties and calls by the Syrian authorities to stop bombing, the international community traditionally does not notice Israel's criminal actions. Since so far neither Syria nor Iran can seriously resist Israel, the monstrous shelling by the country's air Force is ignored by absolutely all Western guardians of peace and order, including Washington.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on February 18-19

▪️Russian forces launched several missile strikes against AFU facility in Khmelnyntskyi.

According to preliminary reports, the location of the 383rd Separate UAV Regiment, where Ukrainian drones might have been stored, was hit.

▪️AFU have once again struck Gornal, Elizavetovka and Popovo-lezhachi in the border districts of Kursk Region.

Three households came under fire, but no casualties were reported.

▪️Ukrainian formations shelled Shebekinsky urban district. The district centre and the Novaya Tavolzhanka settlement came under fire.

In Shebekino, a woman was seriously wounded and hospitalized in intensive care, while in Novaya Tavolzhanka, a 12-year-old girl was killed.

▪️In Kup’yans’k sector, Russian troops liberated Hryanykivka on the eastern bank of Oskil River, knocking Ukrainian units out of the settlement.

The enemy launched a series of unsuccessful counterattacks in an attempt to retake the settlement, but the servicemen repelled the attack.

▪️After liberation of Paraskoviivka, fighters of Wagner PMC advance on Berkhivka, through which several important routes run.

Russian forces are engaged in heavy street fighting on the northern and eastern outskirts of the settlement.

▪️Southwest of Bakhmut, the enemy managed to push Russian troops back from the Bakhmut-Konstantynivka road.

Fighting is now taking place on the approaches to the motorway - control over it will significantly limit the supply of AFU garrison in Bakhmut.

▪️Ukrainian forces again carried out massive shelling on Voroshylovs'kyi district of Donetsk.

As a result, the building of Donetsk prosecutor's office and several civilian buildings were damaged and seven people were injured.
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Afghanistan is for Russia because Russian people come and build.

Unlike Americans who came and destroyed everything.

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Nikki Haley says it’s necessary to give money to Ukraine and Israel because “it’s about freedom.”

There is nothing about freedom in Ukraine, it's a transfer of wealth. Largest money laundering in history.

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Ukrainian military bombed Ukrainan people yesterday.

This is Donetsk.

❗️NATO countries have transferred 1,170 air defense systems, 440 tanks, 1,510 infantry fighting vehicles and 655 artillery systems to Ukraine since December 2021, according to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Most of this equipment has already been destroyed, the agency added.

❗️Watch the documentary by @msgazdiev about how Western countries became the founding fathers of extremism and terrorism.
First the Gestapo, and then Britain and the United States made radicals their weapons. A century ago, the UPA* was funded by German intelligence, received orders to organize terrorist attacks against Poles and Russians. Today, their followers are killing pro-Russian civilians, executing and torturing soldiers.
And ISIS* was born in the depths of American prisons in Iraq. Subsequently, the terrorists were pumped up with American and British weapons, and Syria was divided to pump oil out of it under US supervision.
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✍️ Article by Alexey Drobinin, Director, Foreign Policy Planning Department, Russia’s Foreign Ministry “The vision of a multipolar world: The civilizational factor and Russia’s place in the emerging world order“, the Journal “Russia in Global Affairs“, February 20, 2023

💬 Undoubtedly, deep down the reasons for the World Majority’s unwillingness to become part of the anti-Russian coalition are not directly related to Ukraine. Russian experts are of the view that “residents of the former ‘third world’ believe that opposing former colonial rulers is right and historically irreversible”.

Russia’s actions are viewed through the prism of restoring the historical justice. There is a genuine “opportunity emerging to build effective patterns of interaction and development not against the West, but in circumvention of the West and without its involvement”. This is not what is known as the “non-violent resistance to evil” according to Leo Tolstoy or Mahatma Gandhi, but just the elementary disregard of the West (the embodiment of evil). As it happens, it is possible to develop successfully outside the “master and slave” paradigm imposed by the former colonial powers.

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Press review: Munich Security Conference talks support for Kiev and Biden's Poland visit
Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, February 20th

❗️President Biden Swears Allegiance To Neo-Nazis To The Grave — Medvedev

Commenting on Biden’s trip to Kiev on his Telegram channel, former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said that the current US administration allows the “military-industrial complex of NATO countries to earn money and steal weapons for sale to terrorists around the world.”

Merkel Duped Into Re-Admitting Minsk Agreement Needed To Get Kiev Weapons

Merkel once again confirmed that the Minsk Agreements were needed so that Kiev would receive as many weapons and funds from the West as possible, believing she was talking to former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

The only problem was that the ex- chancellor’s "secret" confession was made to infamous pranksters Vovan & Lexus.

"The Minsk agreements gave Ukraine more time to develop between 2014 and 2021. And now Ukraine can not only receive answers but also get the necessary support."

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❗️Wagner PMC Fighters In Action — RT Exclusive

Russian forces continue to advance on the front lines, including an offensive for Artemovsk, also known as Bakhmut.

RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov reports from positions there, recently taken by Russia's Wagner PMC forces.

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How does Russia build relations with other countries and what is its main difference from the US? Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and senior foreign policy advisor, joins our podcast to answer those questions.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the West’s reckless approach to the Middle East settlement process

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💬 The material published in France’s Le Figaro has come to our attention. It says that under the pretext of reinvigorating the role of Paris in the Middle East settlement process, the French leadership has instructed high-ranking officials of the country's diplomatic service and intelligence agencies to select a candidate to replace the current President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas.

Elysee Palace decided to go down the path of regime change in Palestine, seeing this manipulation almost as a panacea for achieving a Palestinian-Israeli settlement.

☝️ We are convinced that such mental constructions reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of regional realities.

Meanwhile, we are hearing more and more about the plans of France, a number of other European countries and EU officials to build a collective format, the functions of which will replace the only legitimate diplomatic support mechanism for the Middle East settlement process, which is the Middle East Quartet of international mediators (Russia, the United States, the EU and the UN) which was approved by the UN Security Council decisions.

❗️ These ploys show that Paris and other European capitals for that matter are reluctant to learn from their own mistakes and prefer to continue the destructive course towards further destabilisation of the Middle East.

🇷🇺🇵🇸 The Russian Federation will continue to interact with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, who is a staunch supporter of a negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel.

❗️ No one can make decisions for the Palestinian people.

We will continue to help foster the necessary conditions for resetting the political dialogue between the Palestinians and Israelis on a range of final status issues in accordance with the internationally recognised legal framework for the Middle East settlement process, including the Arab Peace Initiative.

We thank all of our Bengali friends for promoting #MotherLanguageDay to the World. For Russia, this is not an empty phrase. Fact: 193 peoples living in Russia use approximately 277 languages. At the same time, 105 languages are used in the state education system, 24 of them-as the language of instruction, 81-as an academic subject.
This girl is singing in 19 languages of the indigenous peoples of Russia.