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🗓 On August 26, 1943, the Battle of the Dnieper commenced. It was one of the largest and most important campaigns in history, which involved up to 4 million officers and soldiers on both sides, with the frontline stretching for 750 kilometres.
After the defeat of German forces in the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943, Hitler definitively lost the strategic initiative and the Nazi armies began a rapid retreat to the West. The German command hoped to stop the victorious advance of the Soviet soldiers.
⚔️ The battle lasted for four months and included two stages: in August-September, 1943, the Soviet forces reached the Dnieper; in September-December, 1943, the Red Army crossed the river and took control of the entire Dnieper area, creating a bridgehead for the liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine.
The Dnieper was a powerful natural obstacle that proved extremely hard to negotiate. As a morale booster, the Supreme High Command issued a directive promising that commanders and soldiers who were among the first to cross the river would be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
By the end of the year, the German invaders were driven from Donbass, Left-Bank Ukraine and the capital of Soviet Ukraine Kiev were liberated.
According to most historians, the fighting for Kiev was one of the most strenuous and blood-letting efforts in the history of the Great Patriotic War. The city’s liberation caused jubilation not only in the Soviet Union but also in the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition.
🕯 During the 778 days of the Nazi occupation of Kiev, many thousands of local residents and Soviet POWs were killed, and dozens of thousands of Jews were executed in the Babi Yar ravine. The Germans and their henchmen, the Ukrainian nationalists, sent over 100,000 Kiev residents to Germany for hard labour.
🎖 Nearly 400,000 Soviet officers and soldiers died during the Battle of the Dnieper. Over 2,400 men were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
After the defeat of German forces in the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943, Hitler definitively lost the strategic initiative and the Nazi armies began a rapid retreat to the West. The German command hoped to stop the victorious advance of the Soviet soldiers.
⚔️ The battle lasted for four months and included two stages: in August-September, 1943, the Soviet forces reached the Dnieper; in September-December, 1943, the Red Army crossed the river and took control of the entire Dnieper area, creating a bridgehead for the liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine.
The Dnieper was a powerful natural obstacle that proved extremely hard to negotiate. As a morale booster, the Supreme High Command issued a directive promising that commanders and soldiers who were among the first to cross the river would be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
By the end of the year, the German invaders were driven from Donbass, Left-Bank Ukraine and the capital of Soviet Ukraine Kiev were liberated.
According to most historians, the fighting for Kiev was one of the most strenuous and blood-letting efforts in the history of the Great Patriotic War. The city’s liberation caused jubilation not only in the Soviet Union but also in the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition.
🕯 During the 778 days of the Nazi occupation of Kiev, many thousands of local residents and Soviet POWs were killed, and dozens of thousands of Jews were executed in the Babi Yar ravine. The Germans and their henchmen, the Ukrainian nationalists, sent over 100,000 Kiev residents to Germany for hard labour.
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✍️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin sent greetings to President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania and President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev on the 15th anniversary of the republics' independence.
The message to President Bzhania reads, in part:
💬 The Russian Federation will further take every effort to provide assistance to the fraternal Abkhazian people in ensuring defence capability and security, protecting its foreign policy interests and solving pressing economic and social issues.
The message to President Gagloev reads, in part:
💬 Relations between our countries have reached the level of alliance and integration. Russia pays particular attention to the consistent implementation of ambitious projects aimed at modernising the republic’s infrastructure, raising the living standards and ensuring social protection of its residents.
The message to President Bzhania reads, in part:
💬 The Russian Federation will further take every effort to provide assistance to the fraternal Abkhazian people in ensuring defence capability and security, protecting its foreign policy interests and solving pressing economic and social issues.
The message to President Gagloev reads, in part:
💬 Relations between our countries have reached the level of alliance and integration. Russia pays particular attention to the consistent implementation of ambitious projects aimed at modernising the republic’s infrastructure, raising the living standards and ensuring social protection of its residents.
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#HistoryOfDiplomacy
📆 #OTD in 1845, Fyodor Martens, a Russian diplomat and famous expert on the history and theory of international law, was born. In Russia he is known above all as the author of Contemporary International Law of Civilised Peoples, a fundamental work that became the first Russian manual on international law.
The future international lawyer was born in Pärnu, Livonia Governorate of the Russian Empire. Having lost his parents when he was a child, he ended up in a St Petersburg orphanage. When he grew up, he was accepted to the law faculty of St Petersburg University thanks to his brilliant academic success.
Later he taught at his alma mater, as well as a number of other leading educational institutions of the Russian Empire. In 1869, he joined the Russian Foreign Ministry, and in 1881 became a permanent member of the Ministry Board. He participated in the Brussels Conference on the Codification of Laws and Customs of War on Land and represented Russia at international conferences of the Red Cross, the Brussels Conference on African Affairs, and many other important international venues.
Holding the Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 and 1907 at Russia’s initiative was among Martens’ most important achievements. At the first conference, the Russian expert developed the principles for peaceful resolution of international disputes, and at the second, he led a commission on maritime law, which made a significant contribution to the development of this area of international law.
A provision formulated by Martens was first recorded in the preamble to the Hague Convention of 1899, under which the parties to an armed conflict must first of all be guided by the principles of humanity and the requirements of public conscience (the so-called Martens clause). The theoretical innovations of the Russian diplomat also laid the foundation of the Convention on the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
📆 #OTD in 1845, Fyodor Martens, a Russian diplomat and famous expert on the history and theory of international law, was born. In Russia he is known above all as the author of Contemporary International Law of Civilised Peoples, a fundamental work that became the first Russian manual on international law.
The future international lawyer was born in Pärnu, Livonia Governorate of the Russian Empire. Having lost his parents when he was a child, he ended up in a St Petersburg orphanage. When he grew up, he was accepted to the law faculty of St Petersburg University thanks to his brilliant academic success.
Later he taught at his alma mater, as well as a number of other leading educational institutions of the Russian Empire. In 1869, he joined the Russian Foreign Ministry, and in 1881 became a permanent member of the Ministry Board. He participated in the Brussels Conference on the Codification of Laws and Customs of War on Land and represented Russia at international conferences of the Red Cross, the Brussels Conference on African Affairs, and many other important international venues.
Holding the Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 and 1907 at Russia’s initiative was among Martens’ most important achievements. At the first conference, the Russian expert developed the principles for peaceful resolution of international disputes, and at the second, he led a commission on maritime law, which made a significant contribution to the development of this area of international law.
A provision formulated by Martens was first recorded in the preamble to the Hague Convention of 1899, under which the parties to an armed conflict must first of all be guided by the principles of humanity and the requirements of public conscience (the so-called Martens clause). The theoretical innovations of the Russian diplomat also laid the foundation of the Convention on the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a question from the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" programme (August 27, 2023)
❓ We remember when BRICS was called an association that has no influence on anything. Today we see that dozens of countries are interested in joining. What does this indicate?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: It shows that they work using their tongues, while we work using our heads and actions.
❓ We remember when BRICS was called an association that has no influence on anything. Today we see that dozens of countries are interested in joining. What does this indicate?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: It shows that they work using their tongues, while we work using our heads and actions.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a question from the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" programme on August 27, 2023
❓ Is it true that BRICS could become an alternative to the G20 in the future?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I don't think that's necessary right now. That is not our goal. President Vladimir Putin, referring to today's meeting of BRICS members with their partners, emphasised that we are not going to disadvantage anyone. We don’t want others to prevent us from implementing projects that are mutually beneficial and not aimed against anyone.
The position of the already enlarged BRICS in the G20 will be strengthened. Saudi Arabia and Argentina are part of the G20 already. The formal division of the G20 into the G7 plus and BRICS+ is now taking shape in practice. We will coordinate our approaches with the new members at the UN, the G20 and other international platforms.
❓ Is it true that BRICS could become an alternative to the G20 in the future?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I don't think that's necessary right now. That is not our goal. President Vladimir Putin, referring to today's meeting of BRICS members with their partners, emphasised that we are not going to disadvantage anyone. We don’t want others to prevent us from implementing projects that are mutually beneficial and not aimed against anyone.
The position of the already enlarged BRICS in the G20 will be strengthened. Saudi Arabia and Argentina are part of the G20 already. The formal division of the G20 into the G7 plus and BRICS+ is now taking shape in practice. We will coordinate our approaches with the new members at the UN, the G20 and other international platforms.
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🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the Ukrainian crisis
💬 In an effort to distract the attention of its Western handlers from problems on the frontline, including the fiasco of the so-called counteroffensive, the neo-Nazi Kiev regime continues to launch pointless strikes against civilian facilities in Russia, with the Ukrainian and foreign media actively covering them.
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Work continues on exposing and punishing the Ukrainian neo-Nazis guilty of shelling the civilian population, mistreating civilians, attempted murders and murders, including murders committed in a way that jeopardises the local population based on political and ideological hatred and enmity.
In the past week, Russian courts studied the evidence collected by the Russian Investigative Committee and sentenced 11 Ukrainian servicemen.
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Despite the suffering of the civilians in Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its satellites continue to flood the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with weapons. <...> Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar arms supplies to the criminal Kiev regime are raising an increasing number of questions among the Western public.
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The increasing calls for the Ukraine conflict to be resolved through talks once again raise the issue of the impossibility of trusting Kiev and its Western handlers. We must not forget the way they treated the Minsk agreements, which gave a real chance for a peaceful settlement of the Donbass conflict.
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❗️ Now, we are witnessing the Westerners and their Kiev underlings using a new trick. They are actively promoting Zelensky's so-called peace formula which in reality has nothing to do with peace and contains only a set of ultimatums that are unacceptable to Russia. In reality, they are cobbling up an anti-Russia coalition, and are trying to draw our Global South partners into it.
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💬 In an effort to distract the attention of its Western handlers from problems on the frontline, including the fiasco of the so-called counteroffensive, the neo-Nazi Kiev regime continues to launch pointless strikes against civilian facilities in Russia, with the Ukrainian and foreign media actively covering them.
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Work continues on exposing and punishing the Ukrainian neo-Nazis guilty of shelling the civilian population, mistreating civilians, attempted murders and murders, including murders committed in a way that jeopardises the local population based on political and ideological hatred and enmity.
In the past week, Russian courts studied the evidence collected by the Russian Investigative Committee and sentenced 11 Ukrainian servicemen.
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Despite the suffering of the civilians in Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its satellites continue to flood the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with weapons. <...> Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar arms supplies to the criminal Kiev regime are raising an increasing number of questions among the Western public.
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The increasing calls for the Ukraine conflict to be resolved through talks once again raise the issue of the impossibility of trusting Kiev and its Western handlers. We must not forget the way they treated the Minsk agreements, which gave a real chance for a peaceful settlement of the Donbass conflict.
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❗️ Now, we are witnessing the Westerners and their Kiev underlings using a new trick. They are actively promoting Zelensky's so-called peace formula which in reality has nothing to do with peace and contains only a set of ultimatums that are unacceptable to Russia. In reality, they are cobbling up an anti-Russia coalition, and are trying to draw our Global South partners into it.
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly
The primary objective of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly is to reaffirm the central and coordinating role of the universal Organization in global affairs and to strengthen the multipolar system of international relations.
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👉 We have consistently advocated strengthening the multilateral framework of international relations and world economy based on the universal norms of international law, first and foremost the provisions of the UN Charter, focusing on the unconditional respect for the sovereign equality of states and non-interference in their internal affairs.
❗️ It is pivotal to prevent a small group of Western countries from taking control of the UN by striving to substitute generally recognized principles of cooperation between the states with non-consensual constructs.
#UN
The UN Security Council reform should aim to strengthen the representation of developing states from Africa, Asia and Latin America in the Security Council without prejudice to the UNSC's effectiveness and operational efficiency. Low twenties seems the optimum number of members of the reformed Council.
We support realistic initiatives to revitalize the work of the UN General Assembly within the relevant Ad Hoc Working Group. It is of paramount importance to fine-tune UNGA working methods, streamline its overloaded agenda and strengthen multilingualism.
#Sanctions
Sanctions are an important auxiliary tool for the UNSC to suppress activities threatening international peace and security. They must not be used as a means of punishment. They should be carefully measured, targeted and time-limited and take into account political, socio-economic, human rights and humanitarian consequences.
❗️It is unacceptable to introduce, in addition to UNSC sanctions, further unilateral coercive measures, especially those with extraterritorial effect. We advocate for including this requirement in relevant SC resolutions.
#UNGA78
The primary objective of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly is to reaffirm the central and coordinating role of the universal Organization in global affairs and to strengthen the multipolar system of international relations.
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👉 We have consistently advocated strengthening the multilateral framework of international relations and world economy based on the universal norms of international law, first and foremost the provisions of the UN Charter, focusing on the unconditional respect for the sovereign equality of states and non-interference in their internal affairs.
❗️ It is pivotal to prevent a small group of Western countries from taking control of the UN by striving to substitute generally recognized principles of cooperation between the states with non-consensual constructs.
#UN
The UN Security Council reform should aim to strengthen the representation of developing states from Africa, Asia and Latin America in the Security Council without prejudice to the UNSC's effectiveness and operational efficiency. Low twenties seems the optimum number of members of the reformed Council.
We support realistic initiatives to revitalize the work of the UN General Assembly within the relevant Ad Hoc Working Group. It is of paramount importance to fine-tune UNGA working methods, streamline its overloaded agenda and strengthen multilingualism.
#Sanctions
Sanctions are an important auxiliary tool for the UNSC to suppress activities threatening international peace and security. They must not be used as a means of punishment. They should be carefully measured, targeted and time-limited and take into account political, socio-economic, human rights and humanitarian consequences.
❗️It is unacceptable to introduce, in addition to UNSC sanctions, further unilateral coercive measures, especially those with extraterritorial effect. We advocate for including this requirement in relevant SC resolutions.
#UNGA78
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🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a question from The International Affairs about the so-called Athens Declaration adopted by a number of European countries
❓ Question: What is your comment on the Athens Declaration adopted by the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, as well as the “premier” of Kosovo, following their meeting in Athens on August 21?
💬 The Athens Declaration provides new graphic evidence that the current EU leadership persists with its policy designed to Ukrainise the agenda of all multilateral cooperation formats.
☝️ They select participants for each event of this sort, thus revealing for the umpteenth time the hidden designs behind any EU agenda.
The EU uses political and economic pressure and blackmail to induce Western Balkan countries to join its aggressive political line towards Russia. They want the accession countries to share collective responsibility. <...>
❗️ The EU does not take into consideration the real problems and aspirations of people living in Western Balkan countries.
To continue its confrontation with Russia, the EU is ready to sacrifice the Western Balkan region’s true development and security interests in violation of one of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter: respect for sovereignty and the right to independent development. They hypocritically refer in their final document to Russia’s violation of the European security principles, which they, along with the United States, made null and void by their interventions in Yugoslavia in 1999, Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011, and Syria in 2014.
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❓ Question: What is your comment on the Athens Declaration adopted by the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, as well as the “premier” of Kosovo, following their meeting in Athens on August 21?
💬 The Athens Declaration provides new graphic evidence that the current EU leadership persists with its policy designed to Ukrainise the agenda of all multilateral cooperation formats.
☝️ They select participants for each event of this sort, thus revealing for the umpteenth time the hidden designs behind any EU agenda.
The EU uses political and economic pressure and blackmail to induce Western Balkan countries to join its aggressive political line towards Russia. They want the accession countries to share collective responsibility. <...>
❗️ The EU does not take into consideration the real problems and aspirations of people living in Western Balkan countries.
To continue its confrontation with Russia, the EU is ready to sacrifice the Western Balkan region’s true development and security interests in violation of one of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter: respect for sovereignty and the right to independent development. They hypocritically refer in their final document to Russia’s violation of the European security principles, which they, along with the United States, made null and void by their interventions in Yugoslavia in 1999, Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011, and Syria in 2014.
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🎞 Today, a ceremony for the opening of a historical and documentary exhibition titled “What Matters Most in My Life” celebrating the 175th anniversary of the birth of Empress Maria Feodorovna took place at the Exhibition Hall of the Federal Archives in Moscow.
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, the wife of Alexander III and the mother of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. She was born in Copenhagen in 1847 and lived in Russia for 52 of the 80-plus years of her life.
The exposition includes about 300 historical documents that tell the story of the most important aspects of the Empress's life. Through all the hardships, she carried the joy and pain of her love for her family and her second homeland, Russia, and its people.
💬 From the welcoming address by Chairman of the Russian Historical Society Sergey Naryshkin: “Finding a second homeland in Russia, Danish princess Maria Dagmar lived through a turbulent era of change, dedicating herself entirely to her family and her new subjects. Thanks to Maria Feodorovna's efforts, the domestic social support system that emerged around churches and monasteries became a truly state cause that was supported at the highest level. By personally caring for the wounded and sick, the Empress as a philanthropist set an example of active patriotism for many others of her class, helping to form the ideal of medical service for women.”
📍The exhibition is open from August 30 to October 22, 2023 in Moscow, at the Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, 17.
👉 More info on the exhibition for Russian speakers
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, the wife of Alexander III and the mother of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. She was born in Copenhagen in 1847 and lived in Russia for 52 of the 80-plus years of her life.
The exposition includes about 300 historical documents that tell the story of the most important aspects of the Empress's life. Through all the hardships, she carried the joy and pain of her love for her family and her second homeland, Russia, and its people.
💬 From the welcoming address by Chairman of the Russian Historical Society Sergey Naryshkin: “Finding a second homeland in Russia, Danish princess Maria Dagmar lived through a turbulent era of change, dedicating herself entirely to her family and her new subjects. Thanks to Maria Feodorovna's efforts, the domestic social support system that emerged around churches and monasteries became a truly state cause that was supported at the highest level. By personally caring for the wounded and sick, the Empress as a philanthropist set an example of active patriotism for many others of her class, helping to form the ideal of medical service for women.”
📍The exhibition is open from August 30 to October 22, 2023 in Moscow, at the Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, 17.
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🇷🇺🇰🇬 President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov on the country’s national holiday, Independence Day.
✉️ Relations between our states hinge on the principles of strategic partnership and alliance. Bilateral cooperation continues to develop successfully in various spheres. We collaborate constructively within the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and other multilateral associations.
I am confident that strengthening diverse Russian-Kyrgyzstani ties fully meets the interests of our friendly nations and helps enhance security and stability in the Eurasian region.
#RussiaKyrgyzstan
✉️ Relations between our states hinge on the principles of strategic partnership and alliance. Bilateral cooperation continues to develop successfully in various spheres. We collaborate constructively within the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and other multilateral associations.
I am confident that strengthening diverse Russian-Kyrgyzstani ties fully meets the interests of our friendly nations and helps enhance security and stability in the Eurasian region.
#RussiaKyrgyzstan
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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hold talks with Foreign Minister of Türkiye Hakan Fidan
📍 Moscow, August 31, 2023
#RussiaTürkiye 🤝
📍 Moscow, August 31, 2023
#RussiaTürkiye 🤝
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 President Vladimir Putin conveyed his condolences to President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa on the tragic consequences of the fire in Johannesburg.
✉️ The President of Russia requested that his sympathy and support be conveyed to the families and friends of the victims, as well as wishes for a speedy recovery to all the injured.
#RussiaSouthAfrica
✉️ The President of Russia requested that his sympathy and support be conveyed to the families and friends of the victims, as well as wishes for a speedy recovery to all the injured.
#RussiaSouthAfrica
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⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:
Ukraine
📃 The unending eight-year-long war waged by the Kiev regime against the people of Donbass and the intentional sabotage of the Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements by Ukraine forced Russia to take measures to protect the region's civilians.
☝️ The Special Military Operation that began in 2022 is conducted in strict compliance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and will continue till the threats to Russia's security are eliminated.
• Ukraine's Western allies contribute to the escalation and perpetuation of the conflict by providing Kiev with heavy weapons, financial and technical assistance, and recruiting and supplying mercenaries. NATO countries' weapons are used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to mount strikes against civilian infrastructure and peaceful citizens of Donbass. Thus, the West has virtually become a party in the hostilities responsible for the crimes of the Kiev regime.
• Violations of international humanitarian law and terrorist attacks carried out by Ukraine are carefully recorded, and all the perpetrators will face their punishment.
🗳 The Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblasts became part of Russia after their population freely expressed its will in September 2022 in accordance with the UN Charter and the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among states.
❗️ The recognition of the referendums held in the Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblasts, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the accession of Crimea to Russia after the expression of the free will by its citizens in 2014, is a key precondition for reaching an agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the situation in Ukraine.
#UNGA78
Ukraine
📃 The unending eight-year-long war waged by the Kiev regime against the people of Donbass and the intentional sabotage of the Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements by Ukraine forced Russia to take measures to protect the region's civilians.
☝️ The Special Military Operation that began in 2022 is conducted in strict compliance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and will continue till the threats to Russia's security are eliminated.
• Ukraine's Western allies contribute to the escalation and perpetuation of the conflict by providing Kiev with heavy weapons, financial and technical assistance, and recruiting and supplying mercenaries. NATO countries' weapons are used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to mount strikes against civilian infrastructure and peaceful citizens of Donbass. Thus, the West has virtually become a party in the hostilities responsible for the crimes of the Kiev regime.
• Violations of international humanitarian law and terrorist attacks carried out by Ukraine are carefully recorded, and all the perpetrators will face their punishment.
🗳 The Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblasts became part of Russia after their population freely expressed its will in September 2022 in accordance with the UN Charter and the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among states.
❗️ The recognition of the referendums held in the Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblasts, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the accession of Crimea to Russia after the expression of the free will by its citizens in 2014, is a key precondition for reaching an agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the situation in Ukraine.
#UNGA78
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has resigned after four years in office after sending a letter of resignation to the prime minister.
Let's say goodbye to the person responsible for contaminating Ukrainian soil with radiation by supplying the Kiev regime with depleted uranium shells. Agent 006 has ignominiously fled the battlefield.
💬 UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has resigned after four years in office after sending a letter of resignation to the prime minister.
Let's say goodbye to the person responsible for contaminating Ukrainian soil with radiation by supplying the Kiev regime with depleted uranium shells. Agent 006 has ignominiously fled the battlefield.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of Türkiye Hakan Fidan
📍 Moscow, August 31, 2023
💬 We are happy to welcome you in Moscow and believe that this meeting is quite well-timed. This is our first full-fledged contact since the appointment of Mr Hakan Fidan as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Türkiye. On that note, we extend our congratulations to him again.
Considering your record of service, we believe that our relations will maintain continuity as regards foreign ministries. The more so since it proceeds from the fundamental agreements made by our Presidents. Given that President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan are preparing for a regular meeting, I believe that today we should take a close look at all the issues included for their discussion.
Naturally, in addition to the bilateral agenda, we have a wide-ranging dialogue and practical cooperation in regional and international affairs. All of this requires regular coordination. I am sure that today’s meeting will be useful and will make it possible to submit constructive recommendations to our leaders.
#RussiaTürkiye
📍 Moscow, August 31, 2023
💬 We are happy to welcome you in Moscow and believe that this meeting is quite well-timed. This is our first full-fledged contact since the appointment of Mr Hakan Fidan as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Türkiye. On that note, we extend our congratulations to him again.
Considering your record of service, we believe that our relations will maintain continuity as regards foreign ministries. The more so since it proceeds from the fundamental agreements made by our Presidents. Given that President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan are preparing for a regular meeting, I believe that today we should take a close look at all the issues included for their discussion.
Naturally, in addition to the bilateral agenda, we have a wide-ranging dialogue and practical cooperation in regional and international affairs. All of this requires regular coordination. I am sure that today’s meeting will be useful and will make it possible to submit constructive recommendations to our leaders.
#RussiaTürkiye
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Last Friday, Pope Francis addressed Catholic youth in St Petersburg via videoconference. He blessed young Russian Catholics before the new academic year, offered some words of guidance and concluded his address with the words: “Do not forget your heritage. You are heirs of a great Russia. The great Russia of saints, of kings. The great Russia of Peter the Great, Catherine II, that great and enlightened Russian Empire of great culture and much humanity. Never deny this heritage, you are the heirs of the great Mother Russia, carry on with it. And thank you. Thank you for your way of being, for your way of being Russians.”
Kiev neo-Nazis reacted the Pontiff's speech in their own way. “Official Foreign Ministry spokesman” of the Kiev regime Oleg Nikolenko described the Pontiff’s words as “imperialist propaganda” and “unfortunate Russian great-power ideas.” And, for good measure, he went on to lecture the head of the Roman Catholic Church, which includes more than a billion believers around the world, on what he should say to his flock.
But there was more to come. That is, a new low to be reached. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, called Pope Francis a “Russian propaganda tool” in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, where he also referred to what the Pope said about Russia as “a destructive discourse for modern humanism.”
First off… humanism? Do Podolyak and the rest of the microbes in the Kiev regime even know what the word means?
Humanism is about wanting to do greater good for humanity. It is about cultural evolution and the highest level of moral capabilities based on humane thinking. The Encyclopaedists – French thinkers in the 18th century – saw humanism as philanthropy, or love for humanity, “a gentle, patient and selfless virtue, which endures evil without approving it.” It would seem that Bandera-style torch processions are a far cry from gentle and patient humanism. The irrational hatred of everything Russian is a far cry from the tolerance of humanism. Rampant corruption is a far cry from the selflessness of humanism. The Kiev regime is an anti-human and anti-humanistic neoplasm by definition.
And secondly, whose heirs are now in power in Kiev? The heirs of the Great Ukrs? In better times, those who claimed that the Ukrs were descended from ancient Aryans were locked up in Pavlovka – the main psychiatric asylum in Ukraine – next door to Napoleons and agents of distant galaxies.
These days, the Kiev regime is trying hard to emphasise that the unfortunate population of Ukraine are the heirs of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, who were nurtured by Hitler and visited immeasurable evil on Ukraine and other nations. There is no doubt that this bubble will burst in time, too.
Doesn’t this suggest that those ancient Ukrs and Nazi collaborators are the best the Kiev regime can muster as its heritage? Because Gogol, Khmelnitsky, and anyone else they still allow people to be proud of were directly linked to Russia. But the Kiev regime has erased Russia from its ancestors.
And if anyone in Kiev wants to see whose heritage is being squandered by the criminal and his gangs that seized power on Bankovaya Street, they should visit Ukraine’s National Art Museum in Kiev to look at Forever with Moscow, Forever with the Russian People by Ukrainian painter Mikhail Khmelko.
Or has it been sold already?
💬 Last Friday, Pope Francis addressed Catholic youth in St Petersburg via videoconference. He blessed young Russian Catholics before the new academic year, offered some words of guidance and concluded his address with the words: “Do not forget your heritage. You are heirs of a great Russia. The great Russia of saints, of kings. The great Russia of Peter the Great, Catherine II, that great and enlightened Russian Empire of great culture and much humanity. Never deny this heritage, you are the heirs of the great Mother Russia, carry on with it. And thank you. Thank you for your way of being, for your way of being Russians.”
Kiev neo-Nazis reacted the Pontiff's speech in their own way. “Official Foreign Ministry spokesman” of the Kiev regime Oleg Nikolenko described the Pontiff’s words as “imperialist propaganda” and “unfortunate Russian great-power ideas.” And, for good measure, he went on to lecture the head of the Roman Catholic Church, which includes more than a billion believers around the world, on what he should say to his flock.
But there was more to come. That is, a new low to be reached. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, called Pope Francis a “Russian propaganda tool” in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, where he also referred to what the Pope said about Russia as “a destructive discourse for modern humanism.”
First off… humanism? Do Podolyak and the rest of the microbes in the Kiev regime even know what the word means?
Humanism is about wanting to do greater good for humanity. It is about cultural evolution and the highest level of moral capabilities based on humane thinking. The Encyclopaedists – French thinkers in the 18th century – saw humanism as philanthropy, or love for humanity, “a gentle, patient and selfless virtue, which endures evil without approving it.” It would seem that Bandera-style torch processions are a far cry from gentle and patient humanism. The irrational hatred of everything Russian is a far cry from the tolerance of humanism. Rampant corruption is a far cry from the selflessness of humanism. The Kiev regime is an anti-human and anti-humanistic neoplasm by definition.
And secondly, whose heirs are now in power in Kiev? The heirs of the Great Ukrs? In better times, those who claimed that the Ukrs were descended from ancient Aryans were locked up in Pavlovka – the main psychiatric asylum in Ukraine – next door to Napoleons and agents of distant galaxies.
These days, the Kiev regime is trying hard to emphasise that the unfortunate population of Ukraine are the heirs of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, who were nurtured by Hitler and visited immeasurable evil on Ukraine and other nations. There is no doubt that this bubble will burst in time, too.
Doesn’t this suggest that those ancient Ukrs and Nazi collaborators are the best the Kiev regime can muster as its heritage? Because Gogol, Khmelnitsky, and anyone else they still allow people to be proud of were directly linked to Russia. But the Kiev regime has erased Russia from its ancestors.
And if anyone in Kiev wants to see whose heritage is being squandered by the criminal and his gangs that seized power on Bankovaya Street, they should visit Ukraine’s National Art Museum in Kiev to look at Forever with Moscow, Forever with the Russian People by Ukrainian painter Mikhail Khmelko.
Or has it been sold already?
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s interview with ANSA Italian news agency
Read in full
(Telegraph)
Key talking points:
🔹 For Western officials, diplomatically resolving the Ukrainian crisis is not a priority. They plan to drag out the conflict so that the Kiev regime engages in a war of attrition against Russia. Losses among Ukrainians hold no sway for NATO; they are mere expendable assets in achieving NATO’s geopolitical goals.
🔹 Our requirements for resolving the European security crisis provoked by Washington and Brussels are well-known. First, the parameters of security guarantees provided by both Russia and the West must be agreed upon in line with the proposals that we made to the United States and NATO in December 2021.
🔹 The special military operation’s goal is not to seize Ukraine's territory, but to denazify and demilitarise it and ensure its non-bloc status. Only then can we talk about eliminating threats to Russia and its citizens’ security.
🇻🇦 Russia has repeatedly emphasised that it highly values the Vatican's balanced stance on the Ukrainian conflict and the efforts of the Holy See and Pope Francis in seeking a peaceful settlement, which unfortunately have been openly turned down by the Kiev regime.
🇮🇹 Following the lead of the United States, Italy has chosen a course aimed at the deliberate dismantling of the decades-old complex of Russian-Italian cooperation in various fields. Italy is supplying increasingly heavy and lethal weaponry and military equipment to Ukraine
🔹 At the same time, many good things connect us with Italy and its wonderful people, who - we are well aware of it - despite the Russophobic exercises by the paid-up mainstream media, maintain a deep sympathy for and interest in Russia, its culture and people.
Read in full
(Telegraph)
Key talking points:
🔹 For Western officials, diplomatically resolving the Ukrainian crisis is not a priority. They plan to drag out the conflict so that the Kiev regime engages in a war of attrition against Russia. Losses among Ukrainians hold no sway for NATO; they are mere expendable assets in achieving NATO’s geopolitical goals.
🔹 Our requirements for resolving the European security crisis provoked by Washington and Brussels are well-known. First, the parameters of security guarantees provided by both Russia and the West must be agreed upon in line with the proposals that we made to the United States and NATO in December 2021.
🔹 The special military operation’s goal is not to seize Ukraine's territory, but to denazify and demilitarise it and ensure its non-bloc status. Only then can we talk about eliminating threats to Russia and its citizens’ security.
🇻🇦 Russia has repeatedly emphasised that it highly values the Vatican's balanced stance on the Ukrainian conflict and the efforts of the Holy See and Pope Francis in seeking a peaceful settlement, which unfortunately have been openly turned down by the Kiev regime.
🇮🇹 Following the lead of the United States, Italy has chosen a course aimed at the deliberate dismantling of the decades-old complex of Russian-Italian cooperation in various fields. Italy is supplying increasingly heavy and lethal weaponry and military equipment to Ukraine
🔹 At the same time, many good things connect us with Italy and its wonderful people, who - we are well aware of it - despite the Russophobic exercises by the paid-up mainstream media, maintain a deep sympathy for and interest in Russia, its culture and people.