📖 The book by the Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy Maxim Grigoriev 'War Crimes of NATO in the Territory of the Former ' was published in English.

👉 Read in full: War Crimes of NATO in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia

On March 24 ,1999 NATO countries began an aggressive war against Yugoslavia.

The barbaric bombings of civilian infrastructure by the US, French, German, British air forces alone took the lives of over 3.5 thousand persons (including women and children), left ~10 thousand people wounded.

This book contains testimonies of victims and eyewitnesses of NATO war crimes and terrorist acts against civilians, committed in 1999. The facts presented in the book include:

▪️ Shelling of residential areas and killing civilians;
▪️ Shelling of hospitals and ambulances;
▪️ Bombing of industrial facilities to cause environmental damage;
▪️ Destruction of civilian objects;
▪️ Use of cluster and depleted uranium munitions by NATO.

The evidence of crimes presented in the book also contains direct speech and is classified according to the types of crimes under international humanitarian law.

Report and witness accounts were published in a form of a book testify to the numerous NATO war crimes, which under international humanitarian law are classified as crimes against humanity and have no statute of limitations.

⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Statement in connection with the 25th anniversary of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia

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History knows many events which, by virtue of their profound impact on the international order, marked a change of eras.

The NATO attack on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999 is certainly one such event. It went beyond being a tragic milestone in the life of the Serbian people with thousands of ruined lives and desecrated national dignity, and included a devastating blow to international law and European security foundations that had been laid after World War II.

The United States and the EU got finally convinced in their own impunity and moral superiority which was bad news for those who prefer to choose their own path rather than become someone’s tool in their efforts to realise their own interests. The strategic balance of power collapsed, and a drawn-out crisis of international relations ensued which continues to worsen.

The US and its allies who assaulted a peaceful European country trampled on the UN Charter and the CSCE/OSCE principles, and desecrated the very notion of sovereignty. <...> The widespread use of depleted uranium munitions by NATO has led to a multifold increase in cancer cases in that region, contaminated the environment where millions of people had lived for many years, and went down in history as a separate dark chapter on the list of NATO crimes.

During the 78 days of military aggression 14,000 bombs were dropped on Yugoslavia and over 2,000 missiles were fired, including cluster and demolition shells. Under the mocking front of a “humanitarian intervention,” mostly civilian targets were hit, including residential districts, hospitals, schools, bridges, mass transit vehicles, and refugee convoys. Thousands of civilians were killed, including 89 children, whom the Western coalition cynically referred to as “collateral damage.” No one has ever been held accountable for these atrocities, and international justice turned a deaf ear to the suffering of the Serbs and let NATO atrocities go unnoticed.

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❓ This inevitably begs the question: was the “Kosovo project” worth the sacrifice and destruction that the alliance brought upon Yugoslavia? Has the self-proclaimed “republic” added stability or prosperity to the Balkan region?

There is no doubt that the United States’ concern for the rights of Kosovo Albanians is a fake claim from the get-go. It is nothing but a false pretext for the crackdown on Serbs.

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This is what the Western “peacemaking” is all about. Its disastrous ramifications can now be seen in Ukraine, where a neo-Nazi regime has been nurtured on the basis of Washington and its supporters’ rejection of the principles of equality and mutual respect in international affairs, a regime that committed genocide against the Russian population.

We can hear the US and the EU increasingly call on Serbs to “turn the page” and forgive NATO for the invasion that took place 25 years ago. On top of that, they lay the bulk of the blame on the Serbs for the dramatic events during the breakup of Yugoslavia, including the 1999 bombing attacks. I’d be hard pressed to find proper words to describe the extent of Western shamelessness and lack of self-criticism.

The Alliance will never be able to wash off the shame of war crimes. No one believes its demagoguery about defending freedom and democracy anymore. The United States and the rest of NATO have no right whatsoever to talk about implementing an obscure new “rules-based order.” Their every effort to put together some kind of “global security architecture” is by definition malevolent and toxic, and aimed solely at perpetrating the neocolonial hegemony of the West.

❗️ Russia and its partners in Belgrade will continue to oppose the attempts to distort the history of the Yugoslav crisis and to shift the emphasis to demonising Serbs and justifying the 1999 aggression. The attempts to insult the memory of the innocent victims of NATO hangmen are unacceptable.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sends the congratulatory telegram to Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of Independence Day

Esteemed Mister President,
Esteemed Madame Prime Minister,

Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of the national holiday of your country - the Independence Day.

Russian-Bangladeshi relations have been traditionally developing in the spirit of friendship. I am convinced that through mutual efforts we will contribute to their further development for the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of stronger regional security and stability.

I wish you sound health and every success, and to all citizens of Bangladesh - peace and prosperity.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin congratulates Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of Independence Day

Esteemed Madame Sheikh Hasina,

On behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation and on my own behalf, please accept congratulations on the occasion of the national holiday of the People's Republic of Bangladesh - the Independence Day.

Russian-Bangladeshi relations have been developing in the spirit of friendship and mutual respect. Trade and economic cooperation is gradually advancing and perspective joint projects are being realized.

I am convinced that active work between the governments will contribute to strengthening the entire gamut of practical interaction. This fully corresponds with the interests of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

I wish you, Madame Sheikh Hasina, sound health, well-being and new achievements in your responsible work and to the friendly Bangladeshi people - happiness and prosperity.

I extend my warmest congratulations and best wishes to the friendly Bangladeshi people on the 53rd Independence Day

In 1970's the USSR by word and deed supported the Bengali nation in their aspirations for independence and in further quest to achieve international recognition and secure freedom gained after the Liberation war.

Bangladesh post-independence journey is a remarkable example of resilience, nation-building and progress. The country has become the role model for many developing states in combating poverty and climate change, empowering women and spreading education.

Russia stands beside Bangladesh as its proud development partner on the way to building 'Sonar Bangla'.

May the spirit of independence continue to guide and inspire us all towards a future marked by peace, prosperity, and enduring friendship.

H.E. Mr Alexander Mantytskiy
Ambassador of Russia to Bangladesh

❗️ President Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting on measures being taken after the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert venue (March 25, 2024)

💬 We know that the crime was perpetrated by radical Islamists. The Islamic World itself has been fighting this ideology for centuries. But we are also seeing how the US is using different channels to try and convince its satellites and other countries of the world that, according to its intelligence, there is supposedly no sign of Kiev’s involvement in the Moscow terrorist attack, that the deadly terrorist attack was perpetrated by followers of Islam, members of ISIS, an organisation banned in Russia.

We know whose hands were used to commit this atrocity against Russia and its people.

We want to know who ordered it.

We need to obtain answers to a number of questions.

For example, do radical and even terrorist Islamist organisations truly have an interest in launching attacks on Russia now that it supports a fair resolution of the escalated conflict in the Middle East?

And how do radical Islamists, who present themselves as devout Muslims <...>, justify committing atrocities and serious crimes during the holy month of Ramadan, which is sacred to all Muslims? <...>

This leads to the next question: who stands to benefit from it?

This act of violence is likely just one in a series of attempts by those who have been fighting against our country since 2014, using the neo-Nazi Kiev regime as a pawn. As for the neo-Nazis, it is widely known that they have never hesitated to employ the most repugnant and inhumane methods to achieve their aims.

Of course, we must also answer the question of why the terrorists, after committing their crime, attempted to flee specifically to Ukraine. Who was waiting for them there? It is clear that those supporting the Kiev regime do not wish to be implicated in acts of terrorism and be seen as sponsors of terrorism.

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⚡️Initial data received from those detained in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall confirms links to Ukraine, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov has said.

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🇷🇺 Putin said that Russia does not have unfriendly countries, but there are unfriendly elites of these countries

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African countries are beginning to renegotiate contracts with Western oil and gas companies

Senegal is set to launch the $4.8 billion Grand Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas liquefaction and Sangomar oil development projects this year, making it one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

At the same time, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Fay plans to renegotiate contracts for oil and gas projects developed by BP Plc , Kosmos Energy Ltd. and Woodside Energy Group Ltd. to boost the country's revenues.

Fay's economic team, in particular, questioned the validity of the previous deal, under which offshore fields were transferred to BP

⚡️ The brutal terrorist attack committed in Krasnogorsk on March 22, which shocked the whole world, is far from the first act of terrorism targeting our country in recent time. The investigative actions carried out by the competent authorities in Russia indicate that the trails of all these crimes lead to Ukraine.

Other barbaric bomb attacks took the lives of journalists Darya Dugina and Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), seriously injured writer Yevgeny “Zakhar” Prilepin and killed his driver, Alexander Shubin; five people were killed by an explosion of the Crimean Bridge, and 42 were wounded in an explosion in a café in St Petersburg. The killing and mutilation of civilians, including children, was accompanied by raids by the terrorist organisation known as Russian Volunteer Corps.

❗️ In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry has put forward a demand for the Ukrainian authorities, under the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism to immediately arrest and extradite every person implicated in the above terrorist acts.

One of the demands is to arrest head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasily Malyuk, who cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine was behind the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details of the organisation of other attacks in the Russian Federation.

☝️ The fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately cease any support for terrorist activities, extradite the perpetrators and compensate for the damage caused to the victims. Ukraine’s violation of its obligations under the antiterrorist conventions will entail international legal liability.

On 30-31 May 2024, Skolkovo Innovation Centre will host the conference "Startup Village" for Russian and foreign technology entrepreneurs.

We invite Bangladeshi ICT companies, investors, start-ups, technology parks and institutes to join the event.

Business programme includes participation in sessions, exhibition of innovative designs, meetings with Russian companies, and Skolkovo Softlanding flagship programme for the promotion of foreign companies on the Russian market.

More information: https://startupvillage.ru/en/

⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the occasion of the second anniversary of the staged Bucha massacre

💬 April 3 marks two years since the Zelensky regime and its Western handlers staged a bloody mass murder of the people in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, allegedly by Russian servicemen, which turned out to be a botched job.

However, following the guidelines provided to them and failing to even make an attempt to double-check the facts and establish the actual state of affairs, Western politicians and the media scrambled to spread this falsehood.

This provocation was a put-up job and a staged provocation which was clear from the onset. The Russian side has refuted these allegations many times. We will now refute them once again. During the time the Russian Armed Forces were in Bucha until March 30, 2022, its residents moved freely around the town and used mobile phones and the internet.

❗️ There were no complaints about the Russian servicemen’s actions during that period, which was publicly confirmed by the mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, the day after our units left that town.

Moreover, during the time they were in Bucha, Russian servicemen brought 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people in the Kiev Region’s towns and villages.

The first footage showing bodies strewn across the town appeared only after the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign journalists entered the town. Importantly, these were not criminalists or forensic experts, but biased media members, whose role was to tell the public a fabricated story and not to ask unnecessary questions.

🕯 The first findings of the forensic examination of the bodies found in Bucha, which were published in the British The Guardian on April 24, 2022, showed that most of the civilians died as a result of artillery shelling from fragments of anti-personnel 122-mm shells, which fit the D-30 howitzers in service of the Ukrainian forces, which confirms the fact that these people were killed not by bullets from small arms allegedly used by Russian servicemen, but as a result of the Ukrainian army’s artillery strikes targeting Bucha.

The propaganda-driven disinformation campaign in Bucha came as a response to our goodwill gesture to withdraw troops from the Kiev and Chernigov regions which was made in the wake of progress at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 28, 2022. Clearly, the goal of this campaign was to disrupt the dialogue between the parties and to launch a package of pre-arranged Western sanctions on Russia at the behest of London.

Subsequently, Kiev held multiple events inspired by the “Bucha massacre” in order to distract the international community’s attention from its own crimes and inconsistencies of the provocation it had staged, and to spread the fake theory about the town residents allegedly killed by the Russian military among the public in Western countries. This year, the Kiev officials’ attempts to make a big event out of this anniversary have an extra goal of preventing the international community from focusing on the challenging situation in Ukraine and on the line of contact.

Multiple requests that Russia sent to international organisations, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, to establish the circumstances of the incident and to provide an accurate list of the persons whose bodies were found on the streets of Bucha, as well as other information, remain unanswered.

☝️ This shows that the organisers of this heinous act have things to hide.

Once again, we demand that international agencies stop covering up for the Kiev regime and ensure a thorough investigation that will finally reveal the names of the victims, the time and the cause of their death, the signs of the bodies having been moved from one place to another, and the individuals responsible for this terrifying crime by the Kiev authorities.