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Ambassador Oleg Stepanov was invited for a meeting with DFM Marta Morgan.
Exchange of positions regarding situation in and around Ukraine and assessments of situation in Bucha demonstrated deep disagreements between 🇷🇺 and🇨🇦.
Russia regrets 🇨🇦 defending fake narrative of Kiev regime.
Forwarded from Russian Mission Geneva
Statement by Ambassador Gennady Gatilov regarding the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council on April 7, 2022

Russia has made a conscious decision to withdraw in advance from the UN Human Rights Council on April 7, 2022.

The resolution initiated by the United States, which was adopted today by the UN General Assembly, is based not on the human rights situation in a specific country, but solely on geopolitical priorities of the collective West, which does not abandon attempts to subjugate various spheres of interaction between states in the international arena.

Those who disagree with their approach, as the Westerners see it, should be "punished". The main goal is to find a pretext.

FULL STATEMENT
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
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❗️ Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on the situation in Ukraine:

💬 I am accusing Western and primarily the US media of not only spreading fake news and disinformation, but of being accomplices in the massacre in Bucha.

Western media can block us on Twitter all they want. They can cut things out, apply labels and threaten users that certain information is supposedly “hazardous to human health.” They are spreading fake stories and presenting them as fact. They can do this as long as they like but they must remember that history always dots its i’s and crosses its t’s.

The truth will always prevail.

(excerpt from weekly briefing of 06.04.22)
Forwarded from MoD Russia
⚡️Russian Defence Ministry denies statements made by Kiev regime about an alleged missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region

▫️All statements by representatives of the Kiev nationalist regime about an alleged missile attack by Russia on the railway station in Kramatorsk city on April 8 are a provocation and are absolutely untrue.

▫️The Russian Armed Forces did not have or plan to carry out any firing missions in Kramatorsk city on April 8.

▫️We emphasize in particular that Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near the Kramatorsk railway station and published by eyewitnesses, are used by Ukrainian Armed Forces only.

▫️On March 14, 2022, a similar Tochka-U missile of Division of 19th Separate Missile Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the centre of Donetsk, killing 17 people on the spot and injuring another 36 civilians.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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Forwarded from MoD Russia
⚡️Statement by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️In order to accuse Russia of an alleged missile strike on Kramatorsk railway station, Kiev regime has posted on social media pictures of Tochka-U missile launchers that took part in "Union Courage 2022" Russian-Belarusian exercise in February.

▫️Please note, all photos published by Kiev from "Union Courage 2022" exercise show non-Russian missile systems.

▫️Tochka-U tactical missiles whose wreckage was found near Kramatorsk railway station are used only by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️According to clarified information, the strike on Kramatorsk railway station was carried out by missile division of the Ukrainian armed forces from area of Dobropol’e, 45 kilometres south-west of the city.

▫️The aim of Kiev regime's strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk was to disrupt the mass exit of residents from the city in order to use them as a "human shield" to defend Ukrainian armed forces positions, as in many other Ukrainian population centres.

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Kramatorsk is a new heinous crime of 🇺🇦neo-nazis. Criminal orders are given by Kiev junta. And Zelenskiy is totally controlled by the Western intelligence services to destroy the people of Ukraine.☝️BTW: Russia has no Tochka-U - it’s used only by Ukrainian army.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
⚡️⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on Ukraine’s strike at Kramatorsk.

On April 8, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) committed yet another war crime by striking a railway station in Kiev-controlled Kramatorsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile.

Dozens were killed and over a hundred injured.

🕯 We convey our deep condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.

🚫 The choice of the target was not random – the Kiev regime is striving to maximise the number of civilian victims.

Their murders in Donbass have become standard practice for Ukrainian armed units in the past eight years. By cynically killing civilians in cold blood, Kiev is trying to blame Russia for its own crimes in order to discredit Moscow’s special military operation to defend the DPR and the LPR.

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❗️ We urge the international community to objectively evaluate the crimes committed by Ukrainian units, to stop supplying them with arms and prompt Kiev to renounce its unacceptable methods of hostility.
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⚡️ In Russia’s view, the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in New York on April 7 on suspending the membership of the Russian Federation in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is an unlawful and politically motivated act of punishment designed to make an example of a sovereign UN member pursuing independent domestic and foreign policies.

❗️ Effective April 7, 2022, the Russian Federation has decided to end its membership in the UNHRC.

Our decision to end our membership in the UNHRC effective immediately does not mean Russia is retreating from its international human rights commitments.

☝️The Russian Federation intends to continue helping to facilitate a constructive dialogue on human rights and engaging all stakeholders in collective decision-making in the interests of all groups of states.
⚡️⚡️ Заявление МИД России в связи с обстрелом Краматорска украинской стороной.

8 апреля украинскими вооруженными формированиями было совершено очередное военное преступление - нанесён удар тактической ракетой «Точка-У» по железнодорожному вокзалу.

Сообщается о десятках погибших и более сотни раненых.

🕯 Выражаем глубокие соболезнования родным и близким погибших.

🚫 Объект обстрела был выбран неслучайно - киевский режим стремится к максимальным жертвам среди мирных жителей.

Их убийство в Донбассе за прошедшие восемь лет стало привычной практикой для украинских вооруженных формирований. Хладнокровно уничтожая гражданское население, Киев пытается переложить ответственность на российскую сторону, чтобы дискредитировать специальную военную операцию по защите ДНР и ЛНР.

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❗️ Призываем международное сообщество дать объективную оценку преступлениям украинских формирований, прекратить поставки им вооружений и побудить Киев к отказу от недопустимых методов ведения боевых действий.
Forwarded from Россия в ОБСЕ
🚨Read extracts from the statement of the Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich «Gross violations of the rights of the Russian and Russian-speaking population in some OSCE participating States as open disregard for international law and international legal instruments» (OSCE Permanent Council meeting, 7 April 2022):

🔺Canada, USA, «collective» Brussels and EU member states foment unprecedented Russophobic sentiments, condone Russophobic actions, ignore hate speech in all public and social strata.

🔺In their anti-Russian fervor, they consciously disregard the fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their international legal obligations, including those under the relevant international covenants.

🔺In violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, in some OSCE pS Russian-speaking minors are bullied, humiliated, insulted, and beaten in schools. Not to mention psychological pressure and creation of conditions that hinder educational process.

🔺Campaign has been launched to eliminate Russian presence in the global information space, Russian journalists are banned from expressing their opinions, Russian-speaking residents of some OSCE pS are denied the right to access to information in their native language.

🔺A number of U.S. social media platforms have willingly joined the campaign of rabid Russophobia. Meta stated that in the context of situation in Ukraine, it will not prohibit its users from calling for violence against Russians and the Russian military.

🔺We are concerned about the safety of Russian-speaking journalists and civic activists, incl. in light of the appearance in Latvia of an equivalent of the notorious Ukrainian website «Myrotvorets», which publishes data of those who support Russia's actions in Ukraine.

🔺Unfortunately, some OSCE executive structures - ODIHR and RfoM - turn a blind eye to the mass Russophobia. Apparently they are too busy spreading fakes on their social media about Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

🔺We call on OSCE pS to stop neglecting their international obligations and to finally start practically countering Russophobic hysteria.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova regarding High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell's remarks that "This war will be won on the battlefield":

Here you have it, an "economic-focused" organization [EU].

👉 This is EU no longer. Now it's simply a NATO department on trade and economic relations.
🔺The Russian Federation is opening daily from 08:00 to 19:00 (Moscow time) 🌊 a humanitarian corridor, which is a safe lane south-west of Ukraine's territorial sea, 80 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide. 

🔺Information on the operation of the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor is announced in navigational warnings through the World Navigation Alert Service (Area 3, Cadiz, 🇪🇸 Spain). Every 15 minutes every day on international VHF radio channels 14 and 16, the Russian Navy transmits messages in English and Russian containing detailed information on the operation of the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor.

🔺At the same time, the 🇺🇦Kiev authorities continue to fail to acknowledge and shy away from engaging on the issue of ensuring the safe passage of foreign vessels to the assembly area. 

🇷🇺The Russian Federation is taking a full range of exhaustive measures to ensure civilian navigation in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean.

📍Once again, we call on the International Maritime Organization and the management of ship-owning companies to influence official Kiev to take measures aimed at unblocking and securing the departure of foreign vessels from Ukrainian ports.
❗️The Russian Defence Ministry emphasises that Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near the Kramatorsk railway station and published by eyewitnesses, are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces only.

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❗️Минобороны России подчёркивает, что тактические ракеты «Точка-У», обломки которой были обнаружены возле вокзала г.Краматорска и опубликованы очевидцами, используются только ВСУ.

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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
7️⃣8️⃣ years ago – on April 10, 1944 – the Red Army liberated Odessa from the Nazis

⚔️ The Odessa Operation took place from March 26 to April 14, 1944. In the early hours of April 10, the 8th Guards Army and the 6th and the 5th Attack Armies, along with guerilla forces attacked hostile forces in Odessa after a short shelling attack. By 10 a.m. Soviet troops had fully liberated Odessa.

🕯 During the Nazis’ Siege of Odessa, which lasted 907 days, 82,000 citizens perished, and an additional 78,000 people were sent to Germany to work as slave labourers.

🎖 Twenty seven units and troops, which distinguished themselves during the liberation of the city, were designated “Odessa” units. For heroism and bravery displayed during battle 14 people were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1965 Odessa was awarded the title of #HeroCity.

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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
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🕯 April 11 is the International Day of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps.

The date was established to commemorate the uprising of the inmates of Buchenwald, one of the largest death camps in the Third Reich.

On April 11, 1945, the inmates started a rebellion after learning that the Allied forces were close. They disarmed and captured 200 guards and kept control of the camp until the US troops arrived.

DYK that Majdanek, Poland, was the first Nazi camp to be liberated. The Red Army set its inmates free in July, 1944. After that, the soviet forces liberated Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbruck and many other extermination camps.

☝️ Before and during WWII, the Nazis established a network of 14,000 death camps. Overall, 18 million people were sent to Nazi camps, 11 million of them were killed.

The system of concentration camps was destroyed after the routing of Nazism, condemned by the Nuremberg Trials as a crime against humanity.
Forwarded from MoD Russia
🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥On Sunday April 10, high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles on the southern outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk destroyed equipment of S-300 anti-aircraft missile division supplied to the Kiev regime by a European country, which was hidden in a hangar. 4 S-300 launchers and up to 25 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were hit, too.

💥During the night, high-precision air-based missiles near Velikaya Novoselovka destroyed weapons and military equipment repair base of the Ukrainian air defence forces, including Buk-M1 and OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile systems. 2 ammunition depots near Nikolaev and Zhovtnevoe have also been destroyed, as well as a radar of S-300 anti-aitcraft missile system in Uspenovki area.

💥As a result of high-precision strikes, 9 tanks, 5 Akatsiya 2S3 self-propelled artillery systems, 5 BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers and over 60 nationalists were destroyed in Vozdvizhenka-2 and Ivanovka, Donetsk Region.

💥Russian air defence means shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the air near Izyum. In addition, 3 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed near Balakleya in Kharkov Region, Gulyai Polye and Volnovakha, as well as 1 Valkyrie UAV near Kaliniskoe in Nikolaev Region.

💥Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter has been shot down near Posad-Pokrovskoe, Kherson Region, by concentrated small arms fire.

✈️💥Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 78 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 3 command posts, 1 radar for illumination and guidance, 3 positions of short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, 4 ammunition depots, as well as 58 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

📊In total, 129 aircfaft and 99 helicopters, 243 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 441 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,079 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 239 multiple launch rocket systems, 909 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,003 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
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Forwarded from MoD Russia
​​🇷🇺Russian special operations unit has liquidated one of the odious leaders of the so-called Right Sector Ukrainian volunteer corps, Taras Bobanich, during reconnaissance and search operation five kilometres south of Izyum city.

▫️As a leader of the Lvov neo-Nazi group, Bobanich joined the Right Sector in November 2013.

▫️In 2014, he took part in the Kiev regime's punitive operation in Donbass. He personally gave orders for artillery shelling of residential areas in Donetsk and Lugansk with heavy weapons.

▫️He was responsible for hundreds of deaths of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk people' republics, including children.

▫️Since 2019, he has served as Right Sector's deputy commander for reserve units.

▫️He was one of the ideologues of the so-called "superiority of the Ukrainian race" theory and was personally involved in attacks and killings of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.

❗️The Russian Armed Forces will continue to search for and eliminate the leaders of Ukrainian neo-Nazi organizations.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Izyum
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