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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.

🇷🇺🇺🇦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.

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​​🇷🇺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.

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❗️New false staged provocations to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly abusing the population of Ukraine are being prepared by the Kiev regime under the guidance of the British intelligence services in Sumy region.

❗️Representatives of the Ukrainian and Western media have been invited to Seredina Buda town in Sumy Region, which was formerly under the control of Russian troops, to conduct staged video footage. In order to conceal the provocation and prevent it from being exposed by real witnesses, a curfew has been imposed in the city and the local population has been forcibly evicted from the places where the filming took place.

▫️In Nizhnyaya Syrovatka near Sumy, bodies are being dragged into one of the basements of residential buildings to be presented as allegedly another victim of the Russian Army. As conceived by the "British filmmakers", units of Russian troops allegedly massacred and humiliated civilians as they withdrew. Another fake will be promoted by the Western media in the very near future. Its aim is to further increase Russophobia against the backdrop of Europe's rapidly developing economic crisis.

❗️Please note that Russian troops withdrew from this location three weeks ago - on March 20. Such events, if they really happened, could not have failed to become public in such a long period. Moreover, the Kiev regime is looking for any reasons to accuse Russia of genocide of the Ukrainians. A whole network of foreign information-psychological influences on the population is currently operating in Ukraine, producing "dirty tricks" on a professional basis. We will see the results of their anti-Russian activities more than once.

▫️The Ukrainian authorities also make extensive use of interested countries and non-profit organisations.

▫️For example, the French leadership has sent a group of French servicemen and the Gendarmerie to Ukraine to collect information on alleged crimes committed by Russian servicemen, together with representatives of the "International Commission on Missing Persons" (created at the initiative of the USA).

▫️On April 11, French special operations forces personnel, together with technical experts from the French Gendarmerie and the Interior Ministry, arrived in Ukraine via Germany and Poland through the so-called "diplomatic corridor".

Given the partisanship of these "experts", there is no hope of an impartial investigation. Apparently, their main areas of activity will be to cover up numerous war crimes against the population of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics committed by the Ukrainian authorities over the last eight years, as well as fabricating accusations against the Russian Armed Forces.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

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

💥On April 11, buried, well-protected command post of a group of Ukrainian troops in Donbass was destroyed by Kinzhal air missile system near Chasov Yar, Donetsk Region.

💥High-precision air-based missiles near Selidovo, Donetsk Region, destroyed 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical missile launcher,
2 multiple rocket launchers in 1 underground shelter, 2 camouflaged concentration of weapons and military equipment and up to 40 Ukrainian nationalists.

💥A base camp of the Right Sector terrorist organization has been destroyed near Novogrodovka, Donetsk Region.

💥During the day, high-precision ground-based missiles in Popasnaya, Novozvanovka and Zolotoe, Donetsk Region, destroyed 1 battalion command and observation post, 3 company strong points, 2 company tactical groups of the Ukrainian 24th Mechanized Brigade and Territorial Defence Brigade, as well as 2 areas of military equipment concentration.

📊In total, up to 300 Ukrainian fighters, over 50 armoured fighting vehicles and up to 25 vehicles of various purposes were destroyed as a result of the strikes in these areas.

💥Russian air defence means shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the air near Sinelnikovo, Dnepropetrovsk region.

✈️💥Operational-tactical aviation hit 42 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 3 command posts, 2 radars for illumination and guidance, 1 fuel depot, as well as 35 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

📊In total, 130 aircfaft and 99 helicopters, 243 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 441 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,132 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 241 multiple launch rocket systems, 913 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,028 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

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🎙 Из интервью С.В.Лаврова телеканалу «Россия» (11 апреля 2022 года):

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💬 Наша специальная военная операция призвана положить конец безоглядному расширению и курсу на полное доминирование США и остальных стран НАТО на международной арене.

Россия со своей историей и традициями – это одна из тех стран, которая никогда не будет занимать подчинённое положение.

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💬 Никакой самостоятельной роли ЕС не отведено, в том числе и в тех усилиях, которые внутри ЕС предпринимаются. Они прекрасно контролируются прибалтами, датчанами, поляками, которые не позволят ЕС каким-то образом отделиться от НАТО. Наоборот будут его заталкивать в натовские сети.

Германия, Франция, Польша и весь Евросоюз показали свою полную беспомощность и отсутствие самоуважения. На их подписи [под Минскими соглашениями] «наплевали», их растоптали. Они молча стали это даже поощрять, как только поняли, что бандиты, пришедшие к власти, будут всячески помогать Западу и им манипулировать. Промолчали, когда эти люди в Одессе в Доме профсоюзов жгли десятки ни в чем не повинных граждан; когда 2 июня 2014 г. самолеты украинских ВВС бомбили центр Луганска. Просто молчали.

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💬 Больше всего нас волнует положение соотечественников, граждан, просто русских, живущих за границей. На них происходят регулярные физические нападения.

Скорость, мгновенность, с которой была запущена русофобская «волна», говорит о том (как написал один из американских исследователей), что «латентный расизм» из Европы никуда не девался.

☝️ Будем применять все имеющиеся правовые способы защиты наших граждан. Работает Фонд поддержки и защиты прав соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом. В основном он связан с возможностью нанять адвокатов для людей, оказавшихся за границей. Резко увеличиваем его финансирование.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

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

💥During the night, high-precision air- and sea-based missiles destroyed 1 ammunition depot and 1 secure hangar with Ukrainian aircraft at Starokonstantinov military airfield, Khmelnitskiy region, as well as 1 ammunition depot near Gavrilovka in Kiev region.

✈️💥Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 32 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near Novomikhailovka, 1 radar for illumination and guidance of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near Zolotarevka, as well as 1 command post and 18 areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

💥Russian Air Defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air near Berdyansk and Melitopol.

📊In total, 130 aircfaft and 99 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 443 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,139 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 241 multiple launch rocket systems, 917 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,046 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

❗️On April 11, in Mariupol, the remnants of Ukrainian troops surrounded on the territory of the "Illicha" plant made an unsuccessful attempt to break out of the city at night.

▫️A group of up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers on armoured vehicles tried to fight their way out of the plant and leave the city in a northern direction.

▫️Air and artillery strikes foiled this breakthrough attempt.

▫️3 Ukrainian tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 7 vehicles and up to 50 military personnel were destroyed. Another 42 Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya television network (April 11, 2022)

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💬 This is a major shift in the policy of the EU and the entire West under the leadership of the US (there is no doubt about that) that occurred after the start of our special military operation. Their current policy is rooted in bitterness and derangement (excuse the non-diplomatic word choice), though it’s not all about Ukraine but rather turning that country into a bridgehead from which Russia can finally be subjugated and subordinated to the global system built by the West even though the Cold War ended and the USSR and Warsaw Treaty disappeared.

The West was moving closer to our borders all the time despite its promises not to expand NATO, statements to the effect that we were no longer adversaries and many other things. Our special military operation is designed to put an end to NATO’s unlimited expansion and to keep the US and other NATO countries from achieving total world domination.

🎙 Russia's Deputy Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Mrs. Tatiana Dovgalenko comments on the rejection of the proposal to hold Day of the #RussianLanguage by the UNESCO.

💬 This move not to adopt the decision on a language is unprecedented for the UNESCO. It undermines the very basis of the organisation. Multilingualism is recognised as a fundamental value of the United Nations.

A clip on how human 😞 emotions are being exploited to cripple critical thinking and clear judgment. “His face says it all” = look, don’t think.

The video also features a German reporter Thomas Röper’s story from Volnovakha, on how his own photos were used to suit the “narrative”.

❗EMBASSY STATEMENT

12 April 2022

The April 8 tragedy in Kramatorsk is the sole responsibility of the Ukrainian armed forces. Dozens of innocent civilians trying to get out of the city were killed at the train station by the Ukrainian tactical missile “Tochka-U” fitted with prohibited cluster warhead. The Ukrainian military had previously used such munitions on multiple occasions. For example, against the residential areas of Melitopol on the night of March 18, as well as on March 14 against the central streets of Donetsk leaving more than 20 civilians dead and dozens injured.

The Kiev regime in cold blood shelled civilian population of Kramatorsk to instigate hate against Russia to prevent people from evacuating, with the ultimate goal to use them – as in Mariupol before – as human shield.

While demilitarizing Ukraine, Russian forces have destroyed significant inventory of “Tochka-U” missiles. However, some still remain in the hands of the Ukrainian military. The serial number of the debris in Kramatorsk is yet another proof of that. The killer weapon belongs to the same batch of “Tochka-U” missiles the Ukrainian armed forces used to hit other non-military targets and cities with predominantly Russian population. Besides the above-mentioned, these Ukrainian missiles attacked an airfield (March 1) and a seaport (March 24) in Berdyansk and residential communities of Makeyevka (March 21), Lugansk (March 30) and Novoaydar (April 10).

Such horrendous acts against civilians are war crimes and crimes against humanity. Russia has launched investigation of these and other Ukrainian atrocities. All the perpetrators of these brutal attacks will be brought to justice.

(Note to the Canadian media outlets that retransmit fake news generated in Kiev: check the facts first. By the way, Russia does not possess “Tochka-U” missile systems. Every military expert in Canada knows that.)

🚀 April 12, 1961, marked the dawn of a new space era - a major milestone in the history of humanity which cannot be understated.

Of course, it is also a golden page in the biography of a legend, a remarkable man who had a direct bearing on the march of world history and later came to symbolise space exploration.

Every year at 9:07 am Moscow time on #CosmonauticsDay, we start counting minutes until Gagarin’s return home - all 108 minutes (that's how long the flight took).

🌏 Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, his spacecraft, Vostok 1, completed a full orbit around the Earth, landing in the Saratov Region. Two days later, the capital and the entire country welcomed the space hero back. The world applauded the space pioneer!

🎙 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

💬 We have been saying for the past eight years that the West is training Ukrainian nationalists. The “exceptional” and “civilised” countries refused to listen, but we continued to make our point with facts in hand. That was easy: you only had to go to Ukraine to see the regular events involving SS Waffen veterans, torchlight marches and the huge portraits of Nazi accomplices on buildings in Ivano-Frankovsk, Lvov and Ternopol.

This week, Canadian correspondent Simon Coutu published the results of a simple investigation on his page at Radio Canada. He studied the pictures posted to social media by the National Guard of Ukraine and compared them to the training programmes conducted for the Ukrainian military by the Canadian Department of National Defence. What did he see?

He writes that many photographs made at the Canada-sponsored training centre in Zolochyov show men in fatigues with the symbols of SS divisions Das Reich and Galizien on their sleeve patches. The experts Coutu contacted have confirmed that these men are neo-Nazis, most probably from the Azov regiment. Moreover, Coutu writes that the Azov Regiment has been incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard as “a special detachment of Military Unit 3057.” He also found out that Canada has spent nearly a $1 billion on training the Ukrainian military since 2014. How much of these funds went to train neo-Nazis? It’s anybody’s guess.

☝️ As I have said, the Canadian journalist has simply looked at the pictures and has seen what we have been talking about for years. He just looked at the photographs. We call for this every day.

Do you understand now why Russian film director Elem Klimov named his film about Nazism “Come and See”? Sometimes that is all that is needed. But it turns out that even this takes a great deal of courage.

Владимир Путин провёл совещание по вопросам развития Арктической зоны Российской Федерации

Будет утверждён сводный план развития Северного морского пути на период до 2035 года. В него войдут обеспечение безопасности перевозки грузов, продолжение строительства арктического флота, в том числе аварийно-спасательных судов, и развитие грузопотока по Севморпути.

Кроме того, Президент поручил:

🔹разработать специальный федеральный закон о северном завозе,
🔹рассмотреть возможность распространения льгот резидентов Арктической зоны России на проекты уже действующих в регионе компаний,
🔹обеспечить комплексную модернизацию инфраструктуры, энергетических, жилых и социальных объектов в ЗАТО арктических регионов.

Подробнее о совещании – на сайте Кремля.

Vladimir Putin had a meeting on the issues of development of the Arctic zone of Russian Federation

The Northern Sea Route Summary Development Plan, covering the period till 2035, will be approved. The Plan will comprise such points as providing freight transportation security, Arctic fleet building continuation, including emergency response and rescue vessels, and the Northern Sea Route traffic development.

Presidential instructions following the meeting are:

🔹work out a special federal law on the northern delivery,
🔹consider the possibility of expanding the benefits of Russia’s Arctic zone residents onto the projects of the companies, already present in the region,
🔹provide complex modernization of the infrastructure, as well as energy, residential and social facilities located in the closed administrative-territorial entities of the Arctic regions.

“The Arctic must be fully provided with all the necessary goods and services,” Vladimir Putin underlined.

❗️ Maxim Grigoryev, the chairman of the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine, shares first-hand accounts of citizens of Ukraine regarding war crimes committed by the Ukrainian military and Neo-Nazis in his telegram channel.

💬 Natalya Kudinova from Mariupol on crimes of Azov battalions:

- There was a grandmother with two little girls. One was 22 months old, the second one was probably 4 years old. They had been sitting in the basement all this time. They tried to get out, at least to get some water. She said: "Azov battalion was standing there. They were shooting at our feet" ...

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💬 Irina Bykova from Mariupol on crimes of soldiers of Ukraine:

- When we were crossing the street, Ukraine began to shoot at us. They deliberately did it...

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💬 Elena Buntseva from Mariupol on Ukrainian tanks’ fire at the houses of civilians.

- We were hiding in the basement at my brother's place. And there were tanks driving and other machines like that. They were shooting all the time and hit his house too...

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💬 Vita from Mariupol on crimes of Ukrainian soldiers:

- <...> They occupied appartements, occupied basements, were throwing people out into the streets and then shoot, from these appartements, from these basements.

👉 More testimonies

🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

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

💥During the night, high-precision sea- and air-based missiles destroyed 2 large missile and artillery weapons depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Sadovoe and Chudnov. 4 Ukrainian helicopters - 2 Mi-24 and 2 Mi-8 - were also destroyed at Mirgorod military airfield.

✈️💥Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 46 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 2 command posts and 1 radar station near Borovoe, 2 multiple rocket launchers, and 4 areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration near Borovoe and Peski-Radkovskoe.

💥Russian Air Defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air over Afanasevka.

💥Missile troops and artillery hit 693 enemy assets: 676 areas of Ukrainian personnel and military equipment concentration, 11 command posts and 5 logistics depots.

📊In total, 130 aircraft and 103 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 447 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,169 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 243 multiple launch rocket systems, 931 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,076 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

❗️In Mariupol city, near the "Illich" Steelworks, 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade have voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered as a result of a successful offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People's Republic militia units.

▫️Among them, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have surrendered 162 officers, as well as 47 servicewomen.

🏥151 wounded Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade received primary medical care immediately on the spot, after that they were all taken to the Mariupol city hospital for further treatment.

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 The USSR and India established diplomatic relations on April 13, 1947.

The friendship between Russia and India has deep roots in history. Russian trader and seafarer Afanasy Nikitin was one of the first Europeans to visit India.

❗️ Today, Russia and India are linked by a specially privileged strategic partnership. Russia-India ties are distinguished by: mutual trust, respect for core national interests, similar positions on various issues, intensive political cooperation.

💬 President Vladimir Putin: Russia views India as a major power, whose people have been very friendly to us. Our relations proceed from a very positive foundation. They are developing and forward-looking (New Delhi, December 6, 2021).

🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 The BRICS association established in 2006 has significant influence among other countries with developing economies

📈 In the first 11 months of 2021, Russia-India trade reached a record of nearly $12 billion.

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🇷🇺The Russian Defence Ministry sees attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian forces against facilities on Russian Federation territory.

❗️If such cases continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centres, including in Kiev, from which the Russian army has so far refrained.

📑 Full text of the Russian Defence Ministry Briefing

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❗️A commercial seaport in Mariupol city has been completely liberated from Nazi Azov fighters.

▫️All hostages held by the Nazis on the ships in the port, including foreigners, have been released.

▫️The remnants of the Ukrainian and Azov Nazi units in the city have been blockaded and deprived of the opportunity to break out of their encirclement.

📑 Full text of the Russian Defence Ministry Briefing

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