⚡️ Emergency statement by Joint Coordination Headquarters of Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

◽️ The Security Service of Ukraine is preparing for a large-scale provocation in the next few days to discredit Russia's activity within the 'grain deal', and to accuse of creating 'shortage of food' in Ukraine.

◽️ In Karaichnoye (Kharkov region), the Ukrainian intelligence service is planting mines in a granary. After its explosion, the Russian Federation will be accused of the allegedly 'intentional elimination of grain stocks in Ukraine', 'sparking starvation', and therefore 'disrupting the grain deal'. Western media will present this incident as 'another atrocity committed by Russian forces' that requires a 'harsh response of the international community'.

◽️ A group of up to 30 Ukrainian professionals in explosives and employees of the Security Service of Ukraine arrived to Volchansk (Kharkov region) for preparing the sabotage.

◽️ The granary is owned by V. Uvarov, a non-staff employee of the Security Service of Ukraine. There are also identification data for A. Tkachuk, the chief of the group, and all of its members as well as their current location: in the military commissariat of Volchansk (Dukhovnaya st., 29).

◽️ In the wake of Ukrainian army's failures, and on the eve of the meeting of the NATO defence ministers in Ramstein (Germany) on 20 January, these resounding provocations are used by Kiev authorities to put more pressure on the opinion of Western countries for achieving large-scale supplies of modern armaments and hardware for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation.

The Presidents reaffirmed their intention to further develop comprehensive cooperation between Russia and Türkiye. Their priorities include energy cooperation, in part, supplies of Russian natural gas and the creation of a regional gas hub in Türkiye.

The Presidents continued exchanging views on the developments around Ukraine. They reviewed the exchange of POWs, primarily the wounded, at Türkiye’s initiative and with account for the recent meetings of the Russian and Ukrainian human rights commissioners in Ankara.

Vladimir Putin emphasised the Kiev regime’s destructive policy of continuing to intensify the hostilities with the support of its Western sponsors, which are still sending more arms and combat equipment to Ukraine. Kiev’s hypocritical policy is illustrated by its refusal to accept a proposal on a ceasefire during the Orthodox Christmas.

The Presidents discussed the implementation of the Istanbul package agreements of July 22, 2022, on Ukrainian grain exports from Black Sea ports and the unblocking of food and fertiliser shipments from Russia.

In addition, the Presidents discussed ways to normalise relations between Türkiye and Syria, including Ankara’s initiative to launch consultations with the participation of Russian, Türkish and Syrian representatives. They also noted the practical importance of joint efforts by Russia, Türkiye and Iran to promote Syrian settlement in the context of the Astana agreements.

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🗓 On January 16, 1909, a legendary Navy officer, submarine S-33 commander Boris Alekseev was born.

⚔️ During the Great Patriotic War Alekseev served in the Black Sea Fleet. In 1941-1944, he carried out 15 combat missions against enemy communications near Sevastopol & the western ports of the Black Sea. His S-33 sunk several enemy ships.

In 1942, Alekseev & his crew delivered food & ammunition to Nazi-besieged Sevastopol, & evacuated dozens of wounded city defenders.

🎖 Alekseev took an active part in the liberation of Crimea from the Nazis & their accomplices. In 1944, for battle merit he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the expulsion of the German 17th Army of Army Group A from Crimea, Alekseev served as a commander of the 1st division of the 1st brigade of submarines of the Black Sea Fleet. Later on he switched to academia & research.

Boris Alekseev died on January 25, 1972 & was buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).

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#HistoryOfDiplomacy

On January 10, 1946, the first meeting of the UN General Assembly took place in London.

On January 12, 1946, the main body of the United Nations responsible for international peace and security - the Security Council (#UNSC) - was created.

The Security Council held its first meeting on January 17, 1946 at Church House, Westminster, London.

The Soviet delegation was headed by Andrei Gromyko, the first Soviet diplomat to hold the post of Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations.

⭐️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in commemorative events dedicated to 8️⃣0️⃣th anniversary of breaking siege of Leningrad

Russia's Head of State visited the Nevsky Pyatachok Memorial Military-Historical Complex in the Leningrad Region, where he laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument. Later the President took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Motherland monument at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.

Later Vladimir Putin met with Great Patriotic War veterans, residents of besieged Leningrad and representatives of patriotic public associations at the State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad.

💬 President Putin: First of all, I would like to address the veterans and to congratulate you on the landmark event, namely, the 80th anniversary of breaking the siege of Leningrad.

This is a major event for all of us – not only for the people of Leningrad, not only for the city, or for the heroic defenders and residents of besieged Leningrad, but for the entire country.

We must ensure that future generations know about and cherish the memory of that page in our history.

President Vladimir Putin at the meeting with Great Patriotic War veterans, residents of besieged Leningrad and representatives of patriotic public associations:

📍January 18, 2023, St. Petersburg

💬 The tragedy linked to the events in Ukraine began in 2014 with the unconstitutional, anti-state, armed coup in Ukraine. As we know, this required Russia to provide assistance to the residents of Crimea, followed by the events in Donbass.

❗️ Everything we are doing today, i.a. within the special military operation, is an attempt to stop this war. That is the gist of our military operation, as well as to protect the people, our people who live on this territory.

🛡 We couldn’t but respond to the events after the coup, when, in fact, the Ukrainians began to eradicate the people of Donbass solely because they consider themselves tied to the Russian culture, language and traditions of their people and their ancestors.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov was received by President of Belarus Alexander #Lukashenko in Minsk

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🇷🇺🇧🇾🤝 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleinik held a tête-à-tête meeting in Minsk, at the MFA of Belarus.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Sergey #Lavrov attended the joint meeting of the collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries in Minsk.

🎙 Интервью Посла России в Канаде О.В.Степанова телеканалу «Россия 24»

💬 Канадская сторона не хочет ни видеть, ни слышать [аргументы]. У них есть определённые установки, даже не канадские, а общезападные.

Важно обвинить Россию, не важно в чём.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during a joint news conference with Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergey Aleinik following the meeting of the Boards of the Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus

📍 Minsk, January 19, 2023

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We share the view that the collective West has actually turned Ukraine into a bridgehead for the continued military-political cultivation of the post-Soviet space and for subversive activities against the Union State. This is creating a direct threat to the vital interests of Russia and Belarus.

☝️ However, in practice this Western blitzkrieg did not succeed either in Russia or Belarus.

#OSCE

I mentioned what was done to suppress information about the flagrant violation of international humanitarian law in the east of Ukraine as a result of the Kiev regime’s activities. The West remained silent on this topic, covering up these misdeeds.

The OSCE principles and its institutions are being discredited by the Special Representative on Freedom of the Media who keeps increasingly silent when it comes to obvious infractions on the part of the Ukrainian regime or its Western sponsors.

#NATO

Not only did the West ignore these warnings and start to develop (militarily) Ukrainian territory, but it also widely encouraged, in theory and practice, the neo-Nazi manifestations of the Ukrainian regime following the coup, which (judging by it all) could not have taken place without the consent (or even support) of the United States.

#Ukraine

All of that unfolded against the background of Zelensky’s ensuing moves who, just like Poroshenko, was elected under the banner of bringing peace to Donbass. Instead of following up on his election promises, he instantly did an about-face and declared in August 2021 that if someone identifies as a Russian in terms of culture, language or traditions, they should clear out for Russia. All of that was unfolding amid total silence on the part of the West, or rather, was encouraged by it.

🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the news conference on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2022

📍 Moscow, January 18, 2023

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Key talking points:

🔹 What is happening in Ukraine now is the result of preparations by the US and its satellites for the start of a global hybrid war against Russia.

🔹 The events surrounding Ukraine have brought to light the implicit push by the United States to drop attempts to reinforce its global position with legitimate means and to adopt illegitimate methods to ensure its dominance.

🔹 The European Union has been completely subsumed by this US dictatorship. The signing of the Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation on January 10 was the high point of this process.

🔹 The West's course on destroying traditional ties between historical partners in different regions and fragmenting and destabilising them has become more salient. We can see this in the Balkans and in the post-Soviet space.

🔹 They used the “either with the West or Russia” choice to identify those who were against the West and proceeded to severely punish them.

🔹 In the so-called “Indo-Pacific region,” the West is out to create bloc architecture against Russia and China. With this aim in view, they have consistently been destroying the decades-old mechanisms and formats of cooperation created around ASEAN.

🔹We regard the policies of the US and the West as a whole as the main problem creating difficulties in all areas. ashington’s policy of dictate in international affairs means precisely that the Americans can do anything anywhere they want.

🔹 In our contacts through the SCO, BRICS, the CIS, and the EAEU, and in our cooperation with associations of Asia, Africa and Latin America, we are doing all we can to create new forms of interaction to avoid dependence on the West & its neocolonialist methods.

🔹 It will take a long time to create a multipolar world order. This will take an entire historical era. We are now in the midst of this process.

#Outcomes2022

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric, Moscow (January 20, 2023)

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💬 We appreciate the contribution by the International Committee of the Red Cross to overcoming humanitarian crises around the world, helping victims of armed conflicts and promoting compliance with international humanitarian law.

🔸 Russia’s cooperation with the ICRC has been gaining momentum in recent years. We have been fruitfully working together on the humanitarian agenda for quite a long time in Syria, Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh and other hotspots, and provide voluntary funding for your programmes.

🔸 We are certain that the well-balanced and responsible policy the ICRC is striving to follow across the world will be critical in the context of developments in and around Ukraine.

🔸 I would like to reaffirm the commitment of the Russian Federation to international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions.

🔸 Once again, I would like to draw your attention to blatant human rights violations by the Ukrainian regime. These violations are backed with evidence.

🔸 We expect the ICRC to further step up its efforts for resolving the issue with visits to captured Russian nationals and ensuring their rights. The Ukrainian regime has been torturing many of them and using other inhuman pressure methods against them.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland has stated publicly that Russia’s defeat “would be a huge boost to the global economy.”

Freeland, whose grandfather was a member of Andrei Melnik’s OUN-UPA nationalist group, hit the limelight several times over the past few years by speaking in support of Ukraine’s Nazis and by making Russophobic statements . On January 18, 2023, she said during the World Economic Forum in Davos: “It is not doing Ukraine favours. Supplying Ukraine with weapons, and as President Zelensky very crucially pointed out, supplying Ukraine with the money it needs to win the war is ultimately in our own self-interest. So, I am a finance minister. If you were to say to me, what is the one thing that G7 finance ministers, G7 governments could do this year that is actually in our power – we do not control COVID. We do not control global supply chains. We do not control whether there will be immaculate disinflation or not. One thing where we have real, practical levers is we can help Ukraine win clearly, definitively. If we do that, if that happens this year – you know this as well as I do, Fareed [Fareed Zakaria, panel moderator], that would be a huge boost to the global economy. I do think Ukraine is going to win.”

This is a 21st century war for resources, plain and simple.

Intriguing scenario in development.
🇺🇸 US pushing 🇩🇪 Germany so Leopard2 is the first foreign tank to be destroyed in Malorossiya. But 🇩🇪Germany, weakly resisting, wants 🇺🇸American Abrams MBT take🥇 place.

☝In any case, foreign tanks don’t live long on 🇷🇺Russian soil.

Интересный сценарий в развитии.
🇺🇸 хотят, чтобы первым уничтоженным в Малороссии танком был 🇩🇪Леопард2. Но 🇩🇪, слабо сопротивляясь, хочет уступить 🥇 место 🇺🇸Абрамсу.

☝На заметку: в любом случае, на Русской земле чужие танки долго не живут.

📅 On January 22, 1945, Insterburg, one of East Prussia’s major cities and an important road and rail junction, was taken in the East Prussian Offensive. It had been turned into a powerful strongpoint, with additional fortifications in view of the coming offensive by the Soviet troops.

The Red Army had carefully prepared for the assault. Prisoners had been captured to obtain information, but they did not provide a complete picture. The only thing that helped was a map, which was found on the dead body of a German colonel of the 26th Army Corps stationed in Horstenau. This gave details of the operational situation at the front, with units and defensive lines marked on it. The information obtained led to the conclusion that the city had to be stormed immediately before its garrison was reinforced by other military units.

The assault was further complicated by the fact that the city was protected from the north not only by the erected defences, but also by the natural barriers of the Angerapp and Inster rivers. The Germans had blown up the dam on purpose, so that the water would submerge the floodplains of these rivers and hamper the further advance of the Soviet soldiers.

🎖 The storming and capture of Insterburg became a milestone in the Red Army’s chain of victories during the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. The operation, cleverly thought-out by commanders and bravely carried out by soldiers of the 18th Guards Infantry Division, made it possible to defeat a massive enemy defensive group, thus opening the way to Königsberg for the Soviet troops.

📖 Read more about the assault on Insterburg

⚡️ Remarks by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at an Arria-formula meeting of UNSC Member States "The systematic war of Ukraine against the residents of Donbass: 2014 and onwards"

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💬 Ukrainian propaganda is doing "its best" to prevent spread of the true information that residents of Ukrainian cities and villages most often die from the bullets of those who, it would seem, should protect them - nationalist battalions and units of the UAF. However, the evidence of this fact is so abundant that this truth simply cannot be concealed.

This is when provocations and false-flag maneuvers come to the stage, like the ones in Bucha and Izum that faked a “massacre of civilians” allegedly performed by Russian troops. In their toolkit, they also have provocations of the Kramatorsk type, when the armed forces of Ukraine launched a rocket against evacuees. As you remember, this provocation was so uncouth and it disclosed so much evidence confirming the responsibility of Ukraine that Kiev and its Western sponsors had to stop proliferating this story.

❗️ Ukrainian strikes against the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk republics promise no military advantage. There are no military facilities there, and the contact line is rather far away. Unfortunately, there are such types of Western weapons at Kiev’s disposal that they can only use after they have coordinated the time and the goal of the attack with the states that delivered this hardware. This gives us reason to believe that the US and NATO knowingly and deliberately become accomplices in Kiev’s crimes against the people of Donbas.

🇷🇺🇿🇦 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds talks with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of #SouthAfrica Dr.Naledi Pandor

📍 Pretoria, January 23

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