⚡️IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi at the ZNPP

🎙Journalists from a wide range of countries are running to ask their questions

⚡️ Hostilities unleashed by Ukrainian sabotage groups on the day of IAEA experts' visit with artillery shelling of Zaporozhye NPP by AFU leave no doubt that Zelensky regime had prepared this military provocation well in advance.

▫️It was the completion of preparations for the seizure of Zaporozhye NPP by Ukrainian subversives on the day of IAEA experts' visit that was the reason for the cancellation of Mr. Grossi's visit to the plant on August 31 which was replaced by his "unscheduled" meeting with Mr. Zelensky.

▫️It is obvious that if the Kiev regime's operation to seize the plant were to succeed, IAEA head Rafael Grossi and the mission experts would become a "human shield" for the Ukrainian saboteurs to prevent any action by units of the Russian Armed Forces to destroy them.

▫️The role of IAEA mission would then be limited to fixing the new status quo - "Zaporozhye NPP has been taken over by Kiev", with a new wave of loud statements from Washington and European capitals calling on Russia to ensure a "demilitarised zone" around the NPP, where IAEA monitors would remain under the protection of the Ukrainian military.

▫️This provocation was thwarted by the effective actions of units of the Russian Armed Forces and National Guard. At present IAEA mission led by Rafael Grossi has arrived at the nuclear power plant and started its planned work with full security ensured by the Russian side. The position of Mr. Grossi and his team, who went to the plant despite Kiev's provocations and shelling by AFU, is worthy of respect.

▫️In this regard, we understand perfectly the undertaking of silence of all western sponsors of Zelensky's regime, which actually confirms their secret participation in the preparation of today's provocation at Zaporozhye NPP. At the same time, the absence of a public response from UN Secretary General António Guterres in Vienna to Kiev's actions near Zaporozhye NPP causes justified bewilderment.

▫️Such silence not only casts a shadow and questions the objectivity of the UN approaches to the situation around Zaporozhye NPP, but also leads to further escalation of the situation there with full impunity for the Kiev regime.

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UN Notes Safety of IAEA Inspectors Ensured by Russia

The UN has acknowledged that Russia is ensuring the safety of IAEA inspectors at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Secretary General's office reported.

Strikes on the plant have continued however, according to the local authorities, who have reported hits on the thermal power plant located in the immediate vicinity of the NPP.

Although IAEA chief Rafael Grossi left the delegation earlier on Thursday, there are between eight and 12 remaining inspectors in the Russia-controlled part of the NPP territory, the head of the city administration Alexander Volga told Interfax.

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⚡️ Russia's EMERCOM has delivered over 75'000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of #Donbass since March this year, medicaments & food supplies included.

Clean water is also being provided in bulk (50'000+ metric tonnes). Water treatment plants are also being installed in the region.

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❗️ September 1 (aka #Back2SchoolDay) is a reminder that schools aren’t the best choice when establishing military headquarters, firing positions, army shelters or ammunition depots.

🚫 Therefore, an educational facility is turned into a potential military target, which should never happen.

#SchoolsAreForKids

#OTD В день 5️⃣0️⃣-летия первого матча Суперсерии-72 СССР - Канада дипломаты посетили Монреальский форум, где прошла знаменитая игра. Та победа 7:3 - яркий эпизод в истории хоккея 🏒🏆

You still remember Marianna from #Mariupol? The lady who was deviously used for Ukrainian propaganda?

Yesterday she (a resident of Donetsk) returned to the liberated Mariupol to congratulate local kids on the beginning of a new school year in their restored educational facilities.

#Back2School

#ThisDay

September 3: Day of the End of the Second World War

The military glory day was established by Federal Law on April 24, 2020.

◽️ The Victory over German fascism, Japanese militarism and their satellites during the Second World War is a highlight of the world history, a glorious page in the history of Soviet people and chronicle of Soviet Armed Forces.

◽️ It had widely covered Europe, Asia and Africa, all the world oceans reaching the shores of Novaya Zemlya and Alaska in the North, the Atlantic Coast of Europe in the West, Kuril Islands in the East, as well as the borders of Egypt, India and Australia in the South.

◽️ The 6-year-long war had involved 61 countries populated by 1.7 billion people that constituted about 80% of the world population. About 120 millions of the most capable people had been mobilised to their armed forces. Operations had taken place in 40 countries.

◽️ Major burden of the fight in the Second World War laid on the Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, German troops invaded the territory of the Soviet Union. Germany was supported by Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Finland and Italy, as well as Norway that joined the anti-Soviet forces in August. Soviet troops exhausted the enemy and halted its offensive at all the most important fronts.

◽️ The Red Army has liberated a lot of European nations from the fascism. Within almost 15 months, about 7 million Soviet warriors had been conducting fierce combats against the enemy in 11 countries populated by over 100 million people.

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❗️ While Kiev regime and its western sponsors were preparing an operation aimed at capturing Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on September 1, the international community had to be informed about the establishment of Kiev's control over the plant by specially selected and prepared 'mass media representatives' from Ukraine, USA and United Kingdom in presence of the mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

◽️ With this purpose, as it was confirmed on September 2 in the public statement by V.Zelensky, Kiev regime added motor cars with Ukrainian and western journalists on board to the convoy of IAEA without prior arrangement.

◽️ The attempt to carry out this provocation was made by Kiev in disregard of mission's working scenario documentally predetermined by IAEA Secretariat and UN Department for Safety and Security.

◽️ According to thoroughly studied and agreed documents, the access to Russian-controlled territory of Zaporozhye region was to be provided only pursuant to the lists previously presented to Russian Defence Ministry by UN Department for Safery and Security.

◽️ There are no representatives of Ukrainian or other mass media tasked to accompany IAEA's convoy on September 1 from Kiev-controlled territory to Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the agreed lists.

◽️ Considering this fact, in order to implement the security protocol for mission's work, all unauthorised persons were stopped and did not receive access at their attempts to cross the delimitation line with IAEA's convoy.

◽️ At the same time, on request of IAEA Secretariat, Russian party provided the arrival of over 60 representatives of mass media, including from France, USA, China, Denmark, Japan, Germany, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries to cover the mission's work.

⚠️ In the morning on September 1, the journalists that arrived in Energodar happened to witness the unsuccessful attempt to assault Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by Ukrainian saboteurs and experienced personally an artillery shelling launched by AFU at the nuclear power plant and residential areas of Energodar while hiding in a bomb shelter.

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⚡️ The Foreign Ministry’s statement on the explosion in Kabul

❗️ On September 5, at 10:50 am Kabul time, an unidentified terrorist activated an explosive device in the direct vicinity of the entrance to the Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in Kabul. The explosion killed two employees of the diplomatic mission; there are casualties among citizens of Afghanistan as well.  

The Russian Embassy is in close contact with Afghanistan’s security services, which are conducting an investigation.