☣️ Latest batch of documents from US-funded Ukrainian biolabs assert that components of biological weapons were created there and dangerous pathogens were developed there as well as ways to transmit said diseases through migrating birds and bats. Here's a brief overview

❗EMBASSY STATEMENT

21 March 2022

It is worrisome that major Canadian media outlets are full of disinformation. Besides joggling facts about the situation in Ukraine there is incompetence regarding events in Russia. In particular, on Saturday, March 19, CBC aired interview with Amnesty International Canada secretary general Ketty Nivyabandi who suggested thousands of Russians had been unlawfully arrested, and ex-editor of the Russian Channel One Marina Ovsyannikova even disappeared.

Four days before Ms. Nivyabandi’s comments, on March 15, Ms. Ovsyannikova had faced court hearing and had been released immediately after a fine for equivalent of about CAD300 without any further legal action. Pursuant to the verdict of the judge, she had violated §20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences for an attempt to organize non-agreed public event via video posted online. Since then, she has been freely giving interviews, including to the foreign reporters (e.g. ABC’s This Week).

As for the other protesters, they all had broken the rules for demonstration. The majority was set free in several hours, while those obstructing or assaulting police were fined or detained after appearing before the court. In Russia a right to express public protest is respected, however, there are local laws regulating that the demonstrations take place in an orderly manner.

☝️The inability of the representatives of such established media and NGO in Canada for fact-checking and unbiased analysis is surprising and unprofessional to say the least.

This video clearly shows 🇺🇦army using the abandoned shopping mall as arms and resupply depot.
🇺🇦regime continues to use civilian infrastructure as a shield for its military.

#ZelenskyIsCriminal #StopFake

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

◽️The Russian Federation continues its purposeful and coordinated work on the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens from combat zones, as well as the provision of humanitarian assistance to the population in the territories of Ukraine liberated from neo-Nazis.

◽️As a result of the effective measures taken, without the participation of the Kiev authorities, 68,098 people have already been evacuated from Mariupol, where the humanitarian situation has taken catastrophic proportions. Saved from the horrors and lawlessness staged by the nationalists, people are now completely safe under the protection of the Russian Federation, all those in need are provided with the necessary assistance.

◽️Russian Federation continues to fully fulfill its humanitarian obligations.

◽️Today from 10 a.m. the Russian Federation has already provided humanitarian corridors for the eighteenth time in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov directions, along one humanitarian corridor to the Russian Federation, and one more through the territories controlled by the Kiev authorities towards the western borders of Ukraine.

◽️Official Kiev has not agreed on any corridor towards Russia again.

◽️At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities additionally announced 4 more routes in Zaporozhye direction, cynically ignoring humanitarian corridors to the Russian Federation.

◽️Pursuing exclusively humane principles, in order to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians forcibly held by nationalists in blocked settlements, on all, including new routes, the Russian Armed Forces fully comply with the imposed ceasefire.

◽️Despite the humanitarian corridors opening daily, Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4,500,000 civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than 20 other blocked large settlements, as well as 6,862 foreign citizens from 25 foreign states.

◽️In addition, in the seaports of Ukraine, due to the high mine danger created by the Kiev authorities in their internal waters and territorial sea, the crews of 67 vessels from 15 foreign countries remain blocked.
The Russian Federation continues to fulfill all its humanitarian obligations. All the necessary conditions for a peaceful and safe life are being created in the liberated territories.

◽️On March 21, 19,442 people, including 3,448 children, were evacuated from the dangerous zones of various regions of Ukraine, as well as the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics, during the day without the participation of the Ukrainian side, 336,182 people have been evacuated since the beginning of the special military operation, 77,062 of them children.

◽️The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 43,287 personal vehicles including 2,895 per day.

◽️All checkpoints contain the necessary number of comfortable buses, equipped with places for temporary accommodation of refugees, their rest and hot meals, mobile medical centres have been deployed, a supply of medicines has been created. Individual work is organized with each person arriving in Russia, medical and psychological assistance is provided.

◽️More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation.

◽️The federal executive authorities, together with the regions, as well as various public organizations and patriotic movements, continue to accumulate humanitarian aid. More than 21,500 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points.

◽️Humanitarian aid is delivered daily by the Russian side to the liberated areas. In total, 4,345 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 539 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 26 actions in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Nikolaev regions regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 180 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.

◽️On March 22, 2022, 35 humanitarian actions are being held in the republics of Donbass, as well as in the liberated settlements of Ukraine, within the framework of which 299 tons of basic necessities and food packages, including baby food and vital medicines, are being transferred to the population.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianAid #HumanitarianResponse
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🇷🇺🇧🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 On March 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the Moscow-accredited ambassadors from the #BRICS countries at a working breakfast.

🤝 The participants enthusiastically exchanged views on developing and strengthening their strategic partnership in the association. They reaffirmed their invariable interest in promoting the five-way dialogue at key international venues and other associations.

The participants reviewed current international issues with an emphasis on the situation in #Ukraine and around it. Sergey Lavrov presented a thorough analysis of the reasons for the Ukraine conflict and gave detailed explanations on the issues linked with ensuring security of civilians, including foreigners, organising humanitarian corridors and granting aid to refugees and other people who need it.

☝️ He stressed that the unprecedented economic war unleashed against #Russia through sanctions is a crude violation of key international legal standards.

🇷🇺🇫🇷📞 On March 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron at the latter’s initiative.

The Presidents continued a detailed exchange of views on the situation around #Ukraine, including the current talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.

🚢Инвестиционные проекты, развитие предпринимательства и транспортной инфраструктуры, создание комфортной городской среды в АЗРФ — в центре внимания участников VII Международной конференции «Арктика: устойчивое развитие»

🎤За два дня на онлайн- и очной площадках выступили более 60 спикеров. Для участия в деловой программе зарегистрировались более 300 человек.

Два главных тезиса:
1️⃣Арктика и Дальний Восток — в приоритете государственной политики России и национальной безопасности,

2️⃣объединение мероприятий нацпроектов и государственных программ, инвестиционных планов инфраструктурных компаний, программ развития арктических регионов и городов даст мультипликативный эффект для экономики всей Арктики.

#ArcticON #ARCTIC4YOU #Russia4Arctic #Arcticcouncil #Arcticcouncil_Russia #AC_Russia #АрктическийСовет_Россия #АрктическийСовет #АС_Россия

⚱️В Арктике планируют создать единую онлайн-экспозицию местных музеев для знакомства с культурным наследием народов Севера.

🌎Эксперты оцифруют, систематизируют и разместят музейные коллекции на едином портале и создадут 3D-модели артефактов.

🎓Эта работа станет частью проекта «Цифровизация языкового и культурного наследия коренных народов Арктики», который с 2011 года реализует кафедра ЮНЕСКО Северо-Восточного федерального университета им. М.К. Аммосова.

✔️Инициативу обсудили на одной из площадок Международного семинара по сохранению и популяризации языков коренных малочисленных народов Арктики в Санкт-Петербурге.

#ArcticON #ARCTIC4YOU #Russia4Arctic #Arcticcouncil #Arcticcouncil_Russia #AC_Russia #АрктическийСовет_Россия #АрктическийСовет #АС_Россия

🎤Участники Международного семинара по сохранению и популяризации языков коренных малочисленных народов Арктики обсудили проект «Креативная Арктика».

🎬Представителей коренных народов обучат основам развития креативных индустрий в области:
• народных промыслов,
• кино,
• анимации,
• IT,
• национальной одежды,
• косторезного искусства.

🎨Авторы проекта предлагают развивать местную экономику на основе креативных индустрий и туризма, а также привлекать молодёжь к сохранению традиционных знаний коренных народов Арктики.

#ArcticON #ARCTIC4YOU #Russia4Arctic #Arcticcouncil #Arcticcouncil_Russia #AC_Russia #АрктическийСовет_Россия #АрктическийСовет #АС_Россия

🇷🇺🇩🇪📞 President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz.

While discussing the situation around Ukraine, the leaders focused on the current talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. Vladimir Putin set forth a number of considerations in the context of the Russian Federation’s principled positions at these talks.

🕯 Today marks 2️⃣3️⃣ years since NATO began bombing #Yugoslavia.

◼️ Some 2,000 civilians, including at least 89 children were killed during the 78-day NATO campaign, and many facilities in dozens of cities, including Belgrade, were destroyed or damaged.

◼️ The use of depleted-uranium munitions contaminated large territories and caused an unprecedented surge in cancer cases. People continue to suffer from malignant tumours to this day.

❗️ On that day the West began dismantling the international legal framework.

Conducted 23 years ago, NATO’s military operation against sovereign Yugoslavia became a tragedy whose long-term and diverse consequences are still being felt. One of its main lessons is that lawlessness and arbitrary rule are unable to solve even a single problem and merely aggravate the situation. This is confirmed by permanent delays in resolving the Kosovo problem.