🕯 On March 24, 1999, the #US and its #NATO allies began a 78-day armed aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

▪️ NATO conducted over 35,000 air raids, dropping some 3,000 cruise missiles and over 10,000 tonnes of bombs on the country. In TNT equivalent, this is five times the yield of the nuclear bomb, which the Americans dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

▪️ Over 2,000 Serbs, including children, women and elderly people, were killed in the bombing raids. They were later cynically described as “collateral damage.”

▪️ NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 was the first armed invasion of a sovereign state in Europe since 1945. That tragic contribution to European history was made by the “purely defensive” alliance.

❗Trudeau’s cabinet decision to blacklist members of the Russian Federation Council is a ridiculous gesture and a demonstration of impotence of Western sanctions policy.

☝️Ukraine will be de-nazified and demilitarized.

#SanctionsNeverWork

⚡️🇷🇺Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defence on the current results of the special military operation in Ukraine

📑 Speech of the Russian Defence Ministry Spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov

▫️On February 24, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces launched a special military operation in Ukraine.

▫️I want to emphasize that the special military operation is carried out strictly according to the approved plan.

▫️The absolute priority of the actions of the Russian Armed Forces during the operation is the exclusion of unnecessary civilian casualties.

▫️High-precision weapons selectively and accurately destroy Ukraine's military infrastructure, equipment and weapons, ammunition stores and material assets of the troops.

▫️From the first days of the operation, when planning any action, special attention has been given to saving civilian infrastructure and civilians in Ukraine.

▫️Before we move on to the current results of the operation, I want to show you once again the originals of the secret cipher telegrams of the 4th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine captured by Russian servicemen.

▫️This is the original of the secret order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Colonel General Balan, dated January 22, 2022.

▫️The document is addressed to the heads of the northern Kiev, southern Odessa and western territorial administrations of the National Guard of Ukraine.

▫️The order details a plan for the preparation of one of the strike groups for offensive actions in the zone of the so-called "joint forces operation" in the Donbass.

▫️I especially want to draw your attention. All measures of the nationalists' combat coordination are ordered to be completed by February 28. In order to start performing combat missions as part of the Ukrainian "joint forces operation" in the Donbass in March 2022.

▫️Since February 2022, Ukrainian troops have multiplied artillery attacks on Donbass with prohibited large-caliber artillery weapons.

▫️Against the background of false statements about the desire for peace, Kiev has begun large-scale artillery preparations for the offensive of a shock group of troops drawn to the east of Ukraine with the support of aviation and missile systems.

▫️The special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 thwarted a large-scale offensive by shock groups of Ukrainian troops on the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republic, which are not controlled by Kiev. This made it possible to save tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of Donbass civilians, whom the Kiev regime has been methodically shooting with large-caliber and rocket artillery for the past 8 years, driving the elderly, women and children into basements.

▫️I would like to emphasize that the Russian servicemen taking part in the operation are courageously and selflessly fulfilling their military duty.

▫️By now, more than 3.5 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces have been awarded high state awards for their heroism in performing combat tasks during a special military operation.

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to carry out the special military operation until all the tasks are completed.

▫️At the end of today's briefing, I note that the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation will continue to regularly and through all available channels to bring truthful information to the public about the progress and results of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.

▫️We can see that despite the lowered "iron curtain" of information boycott by Western countries towards the Russian Federation, the truth about what is happening in Ukraine successfully overcomes these artificial obstacles. Because truth is power.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
@mod_russia_en

According to @mod_russia_en, 🇺🇦 now harbours 6,595 foreign mercenaries and terrorists from 62 states.
They are not subject to the rules of war.

#beSmart

▫️Since 4 March, the Russian Federation has been providing humanitarian corridors on a daily basis, exclusively for humanitarian purposes, in the directions of Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol, of which one humanitarian corridor to Russia and one more through Kiev-controlled territories towards Ukraine's western borders.

▫️The Russian Armed Forces strictly observe ceasefire on all routes, despite the fact that this slows down the pace of conducting a special military operation. But this is done solely in the interests of saving civilians.

@mod_russia_en

▫️And on the Ukrainian side, systematic shelling of humanitarian convoys and attempts to shift responsibility for their own inhumane acts to units of Russian troops continue. So, this week alone, 17 attacks on civilians traveling along humanitarian corridors were recorded, including the cynical shelling of a convoy of refugees from Mariupol.

▫️In the face of tough opposition from the official authorities of Ukraine, since the beginning of the special military operation, 419,736 people, including 88,373 children, have been evacuated to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. 49,362 units of personal motor transport crossed the state border of the Russian Federation.

@mod_russia_en

▫️Russia continues to work on the preparation, delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid to the civilian population of the liberated territories.

▫️A total of 5,043 tons of basic necessities, food packages, including baby food, vital medicines and hygiene products were delivered. 617 humanitarian actions were carried out in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Nikolaev regions.

@mod_russia_en

Scholars: West Well Aware of Racism, Neo-Nazism & Atrocities in Ukraine But Keeps It on Hush-Hush

https://sputniknews.com/20220325/scholars-west-well-aware-of-racism-neo-nazism--atrocities-in-ukraine-but-keeps-it-on-hush-hush-1094201705.html

🎥🇷🇺 Live monitoring and recording system: destruction of the Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft missile system with high-precision missile weapons in Kiev region.

▫️Iskander missile system hit a discovered position of Buk anti-aircraft missile of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️Precise hit on the target destroyed the Ukrainian anti-aircraft system.

#Russia #Ukraine #UAV #Iskander
@mod_russia_en

#Zakharova: Recently US representatives of various levels are trying to shed responsibility for Russian-US bilateral relations which are nearing a total rupture. The blame is routinely laid on Russia which is accused of escalation because we do not miss blows and always respond to hostile attacks either in-kind or asymmetrically.

Obviously, Washington thinks it normal to expel Russian diplomats on trumped-up charges, seize someone else’s property – or steal it, to put it bluntly, close down our diplomatic missions and then to hypocritically gape at why those “daring Russians” pay in their own coin thus hurting US missions in Russia.

👉 We advise those who follow the Russia-US relations should learn the timeline of aggressive actions against the Russian diplomatic presence. The facts speak for themselves.

Read in full

❗️We do not dodge dialogue and are ready to hold talks but only on equal terms, on condition there is a reciprocal movement which cannot be seen in Washington even under a magnifying glass.

Billboard in Moscow:

"Some countries have decided not to play Shostakovich. We decided that Vivaldi's music is always wonderful.

Culture cannot be canceled."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
 
▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue their offensive in the course of the special military operation.

▫️On March 26, high-precision, long-range aviation weapons destroyed a large fuel base near Lvov, which provided fuel for Ukrainian troops in western Ukraine, as well as near Kiev.

▫️In addition, high-precision cruise missiles have destroyed the workshops of Lvov Radio Repair Plant in Lvov city. This enterprise has overhauled and upgraded Tor and S-125 anti-aircraft missile systems, radar stations for Ukrainian Air Force, electronic warfare equipment and sights for tanks.

▫️Also, high-precision sea-based long-range weapons destroyed a warehouse of missiles for S-300 and Buk anti-aircraft missile systems in Plesetskoye, 30 kilometres southwest of Kiev city.

✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 67 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 command posts, 3 field depots with arms and ammunition, 11 strongholds of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and 20 areas of military equipment concentration.

💥Russian air defence means overnight destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Novaya Basan, Peski, Borispol, Shchors, Vishnevoe, Kryukovka and Petrovskiy.

💥In total, 289 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,656 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 169 multiple launch rocket systems, 684 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,503 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

#Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
@mod_russia_en

Trudeau regime banned both English and French RT 📺 channels in 🇨🇦.
Still, Canadian federal propaganda CBC/Radio-Canada outlets work freely in 🇷🇺 and don’t want to leave.
Freedom of media in Russia vs “liberal” dictatorship in Canada.

#beSmart #lookDeep #stayInformed✌🏻