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🇷🇺 Russia's EMERCOM delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip
✅ Food products;
✅ Baby food;
✅ Clothing;
✅ Footwear;
✅ Hygiene items.
The humanitarian assistance is organised on the instructions of Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
The EMERCOM's IL-76 aircraft has arrived in Egypt's El-Arish airport.
🤝 The humanitarian cargo will be distributed by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📹 EMERCOM of Russia
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✅ Food products;
✅ Baby food;
✅ Clothing;
✅ Footwear;
✅ Hygiene items.
The humanitarian assistance is organised on the instructions of Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
The EMERCOM's IL-76 aircraft has arrived in Egypt's El-Arish airport.
🤝 The humanitarian cargo will be distributed by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📹 EMERCOM of Russia
#RussiaHelps
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1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ days to go!
World Youth Festival to be held on the Sirius Federal Territory (Sochi Olympic Park, Russia) starts in 100 days on March 1, 2024.
The unique event will bring together 20,000 young leaders from different parts of the world from 14 to 35 years old.
🎆 Rich program
🎆 Speakers of the highest level
🎆 Popular artists
🎆 Unforgettable atmosphere
Registration is open until December 1.
#WYF2024 #Just100DaysToTheKickOff
World Youth Festival to be held on the Sirius Federal Territory (Sochi Olympic Park, Russia) starts in 100 days on March 1, 2024.
The unique event will bring together 20,000 young leaders from different parts of the world from 14 to 35 years old.
Registration is open until December 1.
#WYF2024 #Just100DaysToTheKickOff
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📄 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova regarding Joe Biden's article “Joe Biden: The U.S. won’t back down from the challenge of Putin and Hamas” (November 21, 2023)
One’s own terrorism is not that bad?
✍️ Joe Biden’s article published on Saturday in The Washington Post addresses the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, presenting three conclusions. Read in full.
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Washington's stance on the conflict is framed through the lens of American exceptionalism: “Joe Biden” asserts that “the US is the essential nation.” In the context of the Middle Eastern developments, this self-perception is not uncommon.
“Joe Biden” repeatedly refers to Hamas' “terrorist strategy” forgetting that Hamas came to power democratically in 2006, with the US playing a significant role in bringing the movement to prominence. At that time, Washington insisted on free elections in the enclave, but later boycotted the legitimately elected political force.
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“Joe Biden” repeatedly emphasised the importance of international efforts, yet the last effective and working mechanism for the Middle East settlement, the so-called Middle East Quartet, which in addition to the US, includes the EU, the UN and the Russian Federation, was blocked largely due to the actions of Western countries, primarily the US.
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One cannot help but question why, while accusing one side of the conflict of resorting to terrorist methods, the author overlooks the terrorist actions in the policies of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.
“Joe Biden” talks about shelling hospitals, which is precisely what the Ukrainian armed forces are doing, using Western weapons to shell hospitals in the DPR and the LPR.
“Joe Biden” talks about atrocities against civilians, but these are precisely the actions of neo-Nazi thugs - Kiev's militants.
<...>
This is why we refer to the Kiev administration as a criminal regime resorting to terrorist methods. Why doesn't “Joe Biden” see or acknowledge this? Or one’s own terrorism is not that bad?
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One’s own terrorism is not that bad?
✍️ Joe Biden’s article published on Saturday in The Washington Post addresses the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, presenting three conclusions. Read in full.
<...>
Washington's stance on the conflict is framed through the lens of American exceptionalism: “Joe Biden” asserts that “the US is the essential nation.” In the context of the Middle Eastern developments, this self-perception is not uncommon.
“Joe Biden” repeatedly refers to Hamas' “terrorist strategy” forgetting that Hamas came to power democratically in 2006, with the US playing a significant role in bringing the movement to prominence. At that time, Washington insisted on free elections in the enclave, but later boycotted the legitimately elected political force.
<...>
“Joe Biden” repeatedly emphasised the importance of international efforts, yet the last effective and working mechanism for the Middle East settlement, the so-called Middle East Quartet, which in addition to the US, includes the EU, the UN and the Russian Federation, was blocked largely due to the actions of Western countries, primarily the US.
<...>
One cannot help but question why, while accusing one side of the conflict of resorting to terrorist methods, the author overlooks the terrorist actions in the policies of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.
“Joe Biden” talks about shelling hospitals, which is precisely what the Ukrainian armed forces are doing, using Western weapons to shell hospitals in the DPR and the LPR.
“Joe Biden” talks about atrocities against civilians, but these are precisely the actions of neo-Nazi thugs - Kiev's militants.
<...>
This is why we refer to the Kiev administration as a criminal regime resorting to terrorist methods. Why doesn't “Joe Biden” see or acknowledge this? Or one’s own terrorism is not that bad?
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🕯 #Today marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the so-called "Euromaidan" in Ukraine, which became the starting point of the catastrophe that we are witnessing in Ukraine today. To remind: facts and the real sequence of events 👉 in our video.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Honestly, I meant to feel sorry for Borrell. But then I decided to hold on to my sympathy and keep it for later.
I love these spectacularly stupid columns and articles written by a group or collective and signed by those... who have long lost the ability to write let alone read.
All the works by Borrells and Bidens are not even edited by them. And they should have.
In addition to an article attributed to the US president, another imperishable work by Borrell has come to light.
And again, it is about Ukraine. I have already commented on the garish passages published on behalf of Joe Biden. I left the review of the EU speechwriters’ fantasies for dessert. This time, instead of the cherry there is a juicy strawberry on the top of this cake. 🍓
If there is anything in the article written by Borrell himself, it is the title: In the Eye of the Hurricane.
No, it is not about a desert storm or something like that.
The thing is that In the Eye of the Hurricane is the English title of an 1970s erotic film El ojo del huracán filmed in Borrell’s home country, Spain (joint Spanish-Italian production).
When the film was released, Spanish-born Josep was 24. I understand that he saw it, but I do not understand why he was so impressed.
What is the film about?
The story is about young and rich woman Ruth who decides to divorce her caring husband Michel because she is infatuated with sex addict Paul. After this someone is trying to kill Ruth, who repeatedly becomes subject to sexual assault. One could wonder, what does it have to do with Ukraine?...
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💬 Honestly, I meant to feel sorry for Borrell. But then I decided to hold on to my sympathy and keep it for later.
I love these spectacularly stupid columns and articles written by a group or collective and signed by those... who have long lost the ability to write let alone read.
All the works by Borrells and Bidens are not even edited by them. And they should have.
In addition to an article attributed to the US president, another imperishable work by Borrell has come to light.
And again, it is about Ukraine. I have already commented on the garish passages published on behalf of Joe Biden. I left the review of the EU speechwriters’ fantasies for dessert. This time, instead of the cherry there is a juicy strawberry on the top of this cake. 🍓
If there is anything in the article written by Borrell himself, it is the title: In the Eye of the Hurricane.
No, it is not about a desert storm or something like that.
The thing is that In the Eye of the Hurricane is the English title of an 1970s erotic film El ojo del huracán filmed in Borrell’s home country, Spain (joint Spanish-Italian production).
When the film was released, Spanish-born Josep was 24. I understand that he saw it, but I do not understand why he was so impressed.
What is the film about?
The story is about young and rich woman Ruth who decides to divorce her caring husband Michel because she is infatuated with sex addict Paul. After this someone is trying to kill Ruth, who repeatedly becomes subject to sexual assault. One could wonder, what does it have to do with Ukraine?...
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🇷🇺🇧🇾📞 On November 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleinik.
The Ministers discussed current issues of bilateral foreign policy cooperation and the integration building of the Union State, exchanged views on current global and regional issues, and also considered the schedule for upcoming meetings at the highest and high levels.
The Ministers discussed current issues of bilateral foreign policy cooperation and the integration building of the Union State, exchanged views on current global and regional issues, and also considered the schedule for upcoming meetings at the highest and high levels.
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🗓 On November 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting in Moscow with foreign ministers of Arab and Muslim countries -- Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud from Saudi Arabia, Sameh Shoukri from Egypt, Retno Marsudi from Indonesia, Ayman Safadi from Jordan and Riyad al-Maliki from Palestine and Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha. They are members of the committee that was established in Riyadh on November 11 at the emergency joint summit of the Arab League and the #OIC on the Gaza situation.
The meeting consisted of a detailed exchange of views and a comprehensive analysis of the situation in the zone of the Palestine-Israel conflict. This unprecedented escalation of violence has already claimed over 12,000 Palestinian and 1,400 Israeli lives.
☝️ Having resolutely denounced all forms of terrorism, the participants emphasised that it is unacceptable to fight this evil by means of collective punishment or the indiscriminate use of force against civilian facilities in violation of the Geneva conventions.
The participants confirmed the similarities of the approaches of Russia and countries of the Arab-Muslim community to overcoming this crisis, and expressed their shared support for achieving a durable ceasefire as soon as possible, protecting civilians, respecting international humanitarian law, opening humanitarian corridors, continuing evacuations from the Gaza Strip and freeing hostages.
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❗️ They underlined the need to step up international efforts to create the conditions for progress in negotiations between the sides. These negotiations should result in the formation of an independent Palestinian state in the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem, co-existing in peace and security with Israel.
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The meeting consisted of a detailed exchange of views and a comprehensive analysis of the situation in the zone of the Palestine-Israel conflict. This unprecedented escalation of violence has already claimed over 12,000 Palestinian and 1,400 Israeli lives.
☝️ Having resolutely denounced all forms of terrorism, the participants emphasised that it is unacceptable to fight this evil by means of collective punishment or the indiscriminate use of force against civilian facilities in violation of the Geneva conventions.
The participants confirmed the similarities of the approaches of Russia and countries of the Arab-Muslim community to overcoming this crisis, and expressed their shared support for achieving a durable ceasefire as soon as possible, protecting civilians, respecting international humanitarian law, opening humanitarian corridors, continuing evacuations from the Gaza Strip and freeing hostages.
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❗️ They underlined the need to step up international efforts to create the conditions for progress in negotiations between the sides. These negotiations should result in the formation of an independent Palestinian state in the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem, co-existing in peace and security with Israel.
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🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part in an extraordinary #BRICS summit on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, being held via videoconference.
💬 Vladimir Putin: The thousands of deaths and mass expulsion of civilians, the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the area are causing deep concern.
And all of that is, in fact, happening as a consequence of the US’ aspiration to monopolise the mediation role in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement process and block the activities of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators.
☝️ Because of the sabotage of UN decisions, which clearly called for the establishment and peaceful coexistence of two independent and sovereign states – Israel and Palestine – more than one generation of Palestinians has grown up in an atmosphere of injustice, and Israelis cannot fully guarantee the security of their state either.
It is worth noting that all BRICS countries have similar positions on the need to collectively reach long-term and durable settlement of the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli problem.
👉 The most urgent goal is to reach a truly long-term and sustainable truce. It is important that other states not get drawn into a war in the Middle East and that the conflict not spread in any way, as is preserving the fragile peace between religions.
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💬 Vladimir Putin: The thousands of deaths and mass expulsion of civilians, the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the area are causing deep concern.
And all of that is, in fact, happening as a consequence of the US’ aspiration to monopolise the mediation role in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement process and block the activities of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators.
☝️ Because of the sabotage of UN decisions, which clearly called for the establishment and peaceful coexistence of two independent and sovereign states – Israel and Palestine – more than one generation of Palestinians has grown up in an atmosphere of injustice, and Israelis cannot fully guarantee the security of their state either.
It is worth noting that all BRICS countries have similar positions on the need to collectively reach long-term and durable settlement of the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli problem.
👉 The most urgent goal is to reach a truly long-term and sustainable truce. It is important that other states not get drawn into a war in the Middle East and that the conflict not spread in any way, as is preserving the fragile peace between religions.
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🗓 On November 22, 1941, the first supply lorries drove across the ice of Ladoga Lake into besieged Leningrad. The 30 km-long route became known as the Road of Life — the only transport route linking the northern capital with the mainland during the Siege.
Over 2.5 million people, including 400,000 children, still remained in Leningrad on September 8, 1941, when the Nazis besieged it and thousands of people were dying of hunger daily before the Road of Life became operational.
🌾 During the first relief trip 60 of the legendary GAZ-AA “polutorka” lorries delivered 70 tonnes of flour to the people of Leningrad. Despite extremely bad weather conditions and constant Nazi shelling and bombing, the participants in the operation ensured the uninterrupted functioning of the transport route, making up to 3 trips per day to deliver the food to the residents of Leningrad.
🕯 To give you the scale of the operation: 300,000+ people were involved in the servicing and using the ice route. Nobody knows the exact number of people who gave their lives on the ice of Lake Ladoga. They were drivers, antiaircraft gunners, repairmen & traffic regulators.
💬 Driver of the 804th auto base on the Road of Life, Leonid Barkovich:
Overall, more than 1.6 million tonnes of cargo were delivered to the besieged city and 1.376 million people were evacuated by the end of the Road of Life’s operation in the spring of 1943. Combat hardware produced by Leningrad plants were carried in the opposite direction. This included KV tanks that were critical for the front and were manufactured only in Leningrad at that time.
Owing to the incredible efforts of drivers, freight handlers, engineers and auto mechanics, tens of thousands of people in Leningrad were saved from starvation. The delivered relief allowed them to survive the most horrible days of winter in the besieged city.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
Over 2.5 million people, including 400,000 children, still remained in Leningrad on September 8, 1941, when the Nazis besieged it and thousands of people were dying of hunger daily before the Road of Life became operational.
🌾 During the first relief trip 60 of the legendary GAZ-AA “polutorka” lorries delivered 70 tonnes of flour to the people of Leningrad. Despite extremely bad weather conditions and constant Nazi shelling and bombing, the participants in the operation ensured the uninterrupted functioning of the transport route, making up to 3 trips per day to deliver the food to the residents of Leningrad.
🕯 To give you the scale of the operation: 300,000+ people were involved in the servicing and using the ice route. Nobody knows the exact number of people who gave their lives on the ice of Lake Ladoga. They were drivers, antiaircraft gunners, repairmen & traffic regulators.
💬 Driver of the 804th auto base on the Road of Life, Leonid Barkovich:
Each of us wanted to avoid an enemy shell but everyone knew that death alone would prevent us from doing our duty and carrying out orders.
Overall, more than 1.6 million tonnes of cargo were delivered to the besieged city and 1.376 million people were evacuated by the end of the Road of Life’s operation in the spring of 1943. Combat hardware produced by Leningrad plants were carried in the opposite direction. This included KV tanks that were critical for the front and were manufactured only in Leningrad at that time.
Owing to the incredible efforts of drivers, freight handlers, engineers and auto mechanics, tens of thousands of people in Leningrad were saved from starvation. The delivered relief allowed them to survive the most horrible days of winter in the besieged city.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
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🎙 Briefing by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik on the crimes committed by the Kiev regime.
📍 Moscow, November 21, 2023
Key talking points:
• The Maidan became a trigger that led the country to decades of bloodshed and degradation. The acting president was illegitimate and he ordered gangs of radicals to kill the residents of Donbass that did not agree with the coup d'etat.
❗️ We are convinced: were the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic not recognized by Russia on February 21, 2022, and the agreements on mutual assistance were not signed, the residents of Donbass could've faced the plight of the victims we are now witnessing in the Middle East.
• We can state the facts of the Ukrainian army hitting ambulances, medical staff, and the purpose is to deprive people of getting emergency medical assistance.
• The use of terrorist methods by the Ukrainian armed forces has become a common practice.
• The Kiev regime is striking technogenically hazardous and radiation-hazardous sites. They try to use the technogenical danger in order to aggravate the situation.
☢️ The issue of attempts to create a radiation catastrophe for the Kiev regime is a separate item, as the Ukrainian armed forces and other special services of Ukraine have made repeated attempts to strike three nuclear facilities at once run by Russia. The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant was the most frequently hit by Ukrainian armed formations.
• Latest data confirms that time for the purposeful strikes by Ukrainian military on social institutions on Russian territory is chosen deliberately to target more civilians, given that high-precision weapons are used.
☝️ We investigate all of these cases in order to follow the prosecutors for these crimes. <...> We will finally move to organizing a specialized criminal investigations against the political leadership of Ukraine for their terrorist activities and violating humanitarian law, as well as those crimes mentioned before.
📍 Moscow, November 21, 2023
Key talking points:
• The Maidan became a trigger that led the country to decades of bloodshed and degradation. The acting president was illegitimate and he ordered gangs of radicals to kill the residents of Donbass that did not agree with the coup d'etat.
❗️ We are convinced: were the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic not recognized by Russia on February 21, 2022, and the agreements on mutual assistance were not signed, the residents of Donbass could've faced the plight of the victims we are now witnessing in the Middle East.
• We can state the facts of the Ukrainian army hitting ambulances, medical staff, and the purpose is to deprive people of getting emergency medical assistance.
• The use of terrorist methods by the Ukrainian armed forces has become a common practice.
• The Kiev regime is striking technogenically hazardous and radiation-hazardous sites. They try to use the technogenical danger in order to aggravate the situation.
☢️ The issue of attempts to create a radiation catastrophe for the Kiev regime is a separate item, as the Ukrainian armed forces and other special services of Ukraine have made repeated attempts to strike three nuclear facilities at once run by Russia. The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant was the most frequently hit by Ukrainian armed formations.
• Latest data confirms that time for the purposeful strikes by Ukrainian military on social institutions on Russian territory is chosen deliberately to target more civilians, given that high-precision weapons are used.
☝️ We investigate all of these cases in order to follow the prosecutors for these crimes. <...> We will finally move to organizing a specialized criminal investigations against the political leadership of Ukraine for their terrorist activities and violating humanitarian law, as well as those crimes mentioned before.
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🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin took part in the extraordinary G20 summit, held via videoconference.
💬 Vladimir Putin: The state of affairs in the global economy and the world at large require collective, consensus-based decisions that reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the international community, including both developed and developing countries. <...>
The enormous stress on the global economy is a direct consequence of the ill-considered macroeconomic policies of some countries. <...>
Unlawful trade restrictions and the climate agenda pursued by some countries in order to improve their own competitiveness, continue to have a negative impact. <...>
🇷🇺 Russia advocates restoring the spirit of open and mutually beneficial international economic cooperation based on the UN Charter and the principles of collegial and mutually respectful joint work.
It is important to achieve an effective optimisation of the global economic governance system, in particular, to restart the WTO in its entirety, including its arbitration function.
We need to enhance the role of developing economies in international financial institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank, and to use those bodies’ resources to promote the development of countries and regions that really need it, and not for opportunistic political purposes.
🤝 We are ready to work together to address these urgent issues at the G20 and other international institutions, including BRICS, an association that is gaining weight and influence – this much is obvious, especially considering its ongoing expansion.
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💬 Vladimir Putin: The state of affairs in the global economy and the world at large require collective, consensus-based decisions that reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the international community, including both developed and developing countries. <...>
The enormous stress on the global economy is a direct consequence of the ill-considered macroeconomic policies of some countries. <...>
Unlawful trade restrictions and the climate agenda pursued by some countries in order to improve their own competitiveness, continue to have a negative impact. <...>
🇷🇺 Russia advocates restoring the spirit of open and mutually beneficial international economic cooperation based on the UN Charter and the principles of collegial and mutually respectful joint work.
It is important to achieve an effective optimisation of the global economic governance system, in particular, to restart the WTO in its entirety, including its arbitration function.
We need to enhance the role of developing economies in international financial institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank, and to use those bodies’ resources to promote the development of countries and regions that really need it, and not for opportunistic political purposes.
🤝 We are ready to work together to address these urgent issues at the G20 and other international institutions, including BRICS, an association that is gaining weight and influence – this much is obvious, especially considering its ongoing expansion.
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🕯 We mourn the untimely death of Boris Maksudov, correspondent of the Rossiya-24 television channel.
This is an irreparable loss for the entire journalistic community in Russia. The memory of him as a talented professional and a bright creative personality will forever remain in our hearts.
It was thanks to his selfless work that the world could see the truth about what was happening on the line of contact and about the terrorist methods used by the criminal Kiev regime against civilians, including journalists.
We express our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
This is an irreparable loss for the entire journalistic community in Russia. The memory of him as a talented professional and a bright creative personality will forever remain in our hearts.
It was thanks to his selfless work that the world could see the truth about what was happening on the line of contact and about the terrorist methods used by the criminal Kiev regime against civilians, including journalists.
We express our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in a Plenary Session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Minsk.
💬 President Putin: The Belorusian chairmanship and the team of all states taking part in this session have conducted active work throughout the year. This work facilitated the consolidation of our allied ties in the CSTO on the principles of respect, consideration of each other’s interests and support.
In this way, the CSTO member-countries in effect promoted the CSTO’s key role as a regional defensive structure responsible for the maintenance of peace and stability in the vast Eurasian space.
☝️ Importantly, this year the CSTO has also developed its contacts with our natural partners, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) and the #CIS.
I would like to make a special mention of our joint efforts to improve the collective rapid deployment forces, aviation and the CSTO peacekeeping forces. A number of measures have been taken to maintain combat readiness, enhance the command and control system and provide more training for military personnel.
✅ We have consistently promoted cooperation between our security services and law enforcement bodies. Notably, the CSTO is continuing its Operation Mercenary aimed at preventing the recruitment of citizens of our countries and blocking the channels of their exit for participation in international terrorist groups.
✅ We implemented together a package of measures on countering extremism, cross-border crime, illegal migration and drug trafficking.
✅ The CSTO Coordination Council on Biological Security has launched its work. It has focused on preventing threats linked with the development and use of biological weapons and ensuring radiation, chemical and medical protection.
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💬 President Putin: The Belorusian chairmanship and the team of all states taking part in this session have conducted active work throughout the year. This work facilitated the consolidation of our allied ties in the CSTO on the principles of respect, consideration of each other’s interests and support.
In this way, the CSTO member-countries in effect promoted the CSTO’s key role as a regional defensive structure responsible for the maintenance of peace and stability in the vast Eurasian space.
☝️ Importantly, this year the CSTO has also developed its contacts with our natural partners, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) and the #CIS.
I would like to make a special mention of our joint efforts to improve the collective rapid deployment forces, aviation and the CSTO peacekeeping forces. A number of measures have been taken to maintain combat readiness, enhance the command and control system and provide more training for military personnel.
✅ We have consistently promoted cooperation between our security services and law enforcement bodies. Notably, the CSTO is continuing its Operation Mercenary aimed at preventing the recruitment of citizens of our countries and blocking the channels of their exit for participation in international terrorist groups.
✅ We implemented together a package of measures on countering extremism, cross-border crime, illegal migration and drug trafficking.
✅ The CSTO Coordination Council on Biological Security has launched its work. It has focused on preventing threats linked with the development and use of biological weapons and ensuring radiation, chemical and medical protection.
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⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the killing of Russian journalist Boris Maksudov
💬 On November 22, the Kiev regime gunmen deliberately attacked a group of Russian journalists with a drone carrying a fragmentation shell. The journalists were working on a report about Ukrainian shelling of civilian targets in the Zaporozhye Region. The next day, military correspondent Boris Maksudov succumbed to his wounds.
🕯 First and foremost, we express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Boris Maksudov and those of all media professionals who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The criminal Kiev regime continues to consider Russian journalists and war correspondents as priority targets, and is hunting them down. Despicably, it targets unarmed correspondents, photographers, and cameramen. The regime employs blatantly terrorist methods to eliminate them, without fearing any criticism from its Western curators or biased human rights organisations. They flaunt their actions.
❗️ The brutal killing of Boris Maksudov is yet another heinous crime committed by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, which bears responsibility for the deaths of many thousands of innocent civilians. We are confident that this crime will not go unpunished, and the culprits will not escape fair and lawful retribution.
💬 On November 22, the Kiev regime gunmen deliberately attacked a group of Russian journalists with a drone carrying a fragmentation shell. The journalists were working on a report about Ukrainian shelling of civilian targets in the Zaporozhye Region. The next day, military correspondent Boris Maksudov succumbed to his wounds.
🕯 First and foremost, we express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Boris Maksudov and those of all media professionals who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The criminal Kiev regime continues to consider Russian journalists and war correspondents as priority targets, and is hunting them down. Despicably, it targets unarmed correspondents, photographers, and cameramen. The regime employs blatantly terrorist methods to eliminate them, without fearing any criticism from its Western curators or biased human rights organisations. They flaunt their actions.
❗️ The brutal killing of Boris Maksudov is yet another heinous crime committed by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, which bears responsibility for the deaths of many thousands of innocent civilians. We are confident that this crime will not go unpunished, and the culprits will not escape fair and lawful retribution.
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🗓 On November 24, 1944, the Baltic Strategic Offensive concluded. It resulted in the rout of Germans in the Baltic countries and the liberation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from the Nazis.
Through their grip on the Baltics, the Nazis controlled shipments in the Baltic Sea, protected East Prussia and used the territories of the Baltic states as one of their main supply depots.
🕯 The Nazis destroyed over 500,000 civilians and 600,000 POWs in punitive operations and executions during the occupation of the Baltic republics. Baltic collaborationists took direct part in the Nazi policy of exterminating the Jews. In Latvia alone, 95 percent of Jews – about 70,000 Latvian Jews and approximately 20,000 Jews brought to Latvia from other countries, were killed in 1941-1944.
🌟 Despite the German command’s plan to contain Soviet troops for more than six months, the Soviet soldiers completed its large-scale offensive in 71 days. The success of the Red Army allowed it not only to free considerable territories of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but also to create prerequisites for ousting Nazi invaders from East Prussia.
Apart from Soviet troops, the 16th Lithuanian rifle division, the 8th Estonian rifle corps and the 130th Latvian rifle corps played an active role in liberating their homelands.
💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (from the weekly briefing on November 17, 2021):
🎖 During the Baltic Offensive, 112 Soviet officers and soldiers were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and three servicemen received second Gold Star medals. Orders and medals were conferred on over 332,000 military.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
Through their grip on the Baltics, the Nazis controlled shipments in the Baltic Sea, protected East Prussia and used the territories of the Baltic states as one of their main supply depots.
🕯 The Nazis destroyed over 500,000 civilians and 600,000 POWs in punitive operations and executions during the occupation of the Baltic republics. Baltic collaborationists took direct part in the Nazi policy of exterminating the Jews. In Latvia alone, 95 percent of Jews – about 70,000 Latvian Jews and approximately 20,000 Jews brought to Latvia from other countries, were killed in 1941-1944.
Apart from Soviet troops, the 16th Lithuanian rifle division, the 8th Estonian rifle corps and the 130th Latvian rifle corps played an active role in liberating their homelands.
💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (from the weekly briefing on November 17, 2021):
It is regrettable that attempts are being made to obliterate the memory of heroism of the Soviet Army, which fought side by side with Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians to liberate the Baltic states from Nazism, and that monuments to the liberators are being dismantled and demolished because they allegedly constitute elements of communist propaganda.
🎖 During the Baltic Offensive, 112 Soviet officers and soldiers were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and three servicemen received second Gold Star medals. Orders and medals were conferred on over 332,000 military.
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