❗️According to reliable information, the Kiev regime is preparing another monstrous provocation, similar to the one in Kramatorsk, to accuse Russian servicemen of so-called war crimes with massacres of civilians.

▫️To this end, battalion of the 19th Separate Missile Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will soon launch a Tochka-U attack on an area of refugees concentration at the railway station in Lozovaya.

▫️The missiles will be launched from Staromikhailovka direction to simulate a strike from the territory allegedly controlled by the Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People's Republic formations.

▫️Such actions by Ukrainian authorities once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude towards the fate of its own citizens and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

❗️We stress in particular that Tochka-U tactical missiles are only used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️Taking the above into account, we warn the countries of the so-called "civilised West" led by the US in advance that the Russian Federation has an evidence base of another terrible crime being prepared by the Kiev regime.

Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s interview with RT

❗️Russia has made public the facts that have come to light to date at the UN and other international organisations and called on the US authorities to provide detailed explanations, but, predictably, Washington does not appear to be ready to share with the public any meaningful information on its military biological programme in Ukraine.

📃 According to confirmed reports, Germany closely coordinated its work on biological security with its US allies, who established a network of at least 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine.

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☝️ We urge German officials to immediately stop spreading false allegations about our country’s intentions to use weapons banned by international law. We believe that such statements can only serve to push neo-Nazi battalions to commit horrible provocations, and moral responsibility for their tragic consequences will be shared by Berlin.

The Red Army’s Berlin offensive operation began 7️⃣7️⃣ years ago, on April 16, 1945. It resulted in the Soviet forces completely rooting out the Nazis, which led to the long-awaited Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

🕯 The Berlin offensive operation lasted from April 16 through May 8, 1945, with Soviet forces capturing about 480,000 enemy officers and soldiers, as well as 1,550 tanks, 8,600 artillery systems and 4,150 aircraft. The Red Army lost 274,184 officers and soldiers, including 78,292 killed and missing in action.

🎖 187 military units and elements received the honorary names Berlin for their soldiers’ bravery, heroism and impressive military professionalism displayed during the operation. On June 9, 1945, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree instituting the Medal for the Capture of Berlin. About 1,082,000 Soviet soldiers received this decoration.

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

Medvedchuk’s spouse Oksana Marchenko appealed to the British government and people: “I appeal to the relatives and friends of Aiden Eslin and Sean Pinner: Angela Eslin, Nathan and Shannon Wood, Derby and Evan Pinner. It's in your power to ask the Prime Minister of your country, Boris Johnson, to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician detained by the Kiev authorities, my husband Viktor Medvedchuk.”

💬 Maria Zakharova: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently went to Kiev, must be aware of the developments with Her Majesty’s subjects. He is sure to reply, isn’t he?

Meanwhile, Liz Truss might take the opportunity to reveal what exactly the British nationals were doing there [in Mariupol, with Neo-Nazis] anyway.

🇷🇺🇸🇦📞 On April 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, at the initiative of the Saudi side.

The Leaders discussed current issues of bilateral cooperation, including in trade and the economy, and expressed their commitment to further developing mutually beneficial ties between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

🤝 They spoke highly of the joint work in the OPEC Plus format aimed at ensuring the stability of the global oil market.

The Leaders also exchanged opinions on some topics on the international agenda, including the situation around Ukraine and Yemen settlement.

☪️ Vladimir Putin congratulated the leaders and people of Saudi Arabia on the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. It was agreed to maintain contact at different levels.

This is Snezhana.

She was born on 14.04.2014 - the very day that the Kiev regime started its "anti-terrorist operation" against the people of Donbass.

Snezhana lives in the town Makeevka near Donetsk, which has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian military for 8 years.

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💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the anniversary of the Ukrainian assault on the Donbass.

▪️ On April 13, 2014 the Kiev regime began a civil war under the name Anti-Terrorist Operation against Donbass civilians who refused to accept the anti-constitutional coup by neo-Nazis.

❗️For eight years we have been witnessing Kiev’s war crimes and the West’s indifference to the tragedy in Donbass.

Our attempts to make Kiev abide by the #MinskAgreements failed, including due to the position of the Western countries who were playing their own game with their military buildup in Ukraine, turning it into a bridgehead against Russia while hiding behind talk of “engagement” in the political process of peace negotiations.

🛡 Having exhausted diplomatic means of protecting Donbass and ensuring its own security, Russia was forced to launch a special military operation.

(excerpt from weekly briefing of 14.04.22)

🇷🇺🇺🇦Emergency Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

📑 Full Text

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Evidence in Mariupol suggests 🇺🇦 military was stockpiling banned land mines. Kiev violates the Ottawa convention as a signatory.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (Part 1)

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

💥During the night, high-precision air-based missiles destroyed an ammunition factory near Brovary in Kiev region.

✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 68 military assets of Ukraine. Among them:

▫️2 radar stations for target illumination and targeting of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near Krivaya Luka and Krasnoarmeisk as well as 1 Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile system near Severodonetsk;

▫️6 missile-artillery weapons and fuel depots, as well as 40 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment and manpower in Kremennaya, Krasnyi Liman, Kolodesi, Torskoe, Yampolovka and Novoselovka.

💥Army aviation hit 4 concentrations of manpower and equipment as well as a convoy of vehicles on the march during the night. More than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, 7 IFVs and APCs and 14 armoured vehicles were destroyed.

💥Missile troops and artillery struck 814 assets, including 17 command posts, 111 artillery firing positions and 684 enemy strong points and areas manpower concentration.

💥Russian air defence means shot down 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Avdeevka, Bairak, Lozovaya, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Novoprokofievka, Pologi, Chernobayevka, Shirkoe and Yasinovataya.

📊In total, 134 aircraft, 470 unmanned aerial vehicles, 249 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,290 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 992 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,166 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

📌 Part 2

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (Part 2)

▫️During the offensive to liberate Mariupol city, a special operation to free hostages held by Ukrainian Nazis in Turkish mosque was carried out in Primorskiy district on April 16 at the request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

▫️As a result of the courageous actions of the Russian special operations group, the mosque was released and 29 militants, including foreign mercenaries, were killed.
Hostages, citizens of a CIS country, released and taken to a safe location.

▫️A Ukrainian group encircled and completely blockaded in Mariupol on the territory of the Azovstal plant has been asked to voluntarily lay down arms and surrender in order to save their lives.

▫️However, the Kiev nationalist regime, according to the radio intercept, forbade negotiations on surrender, ordering Azov Nazis to shoot on sight any willing to lay down arms among Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries.

▫️In total, according to the Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered, up to 400 foreign mercenaries are now encircled on the territory of Azovstal plant as part of the Ukrainian grouping.

▫️Most of them are citizens of European countries as well as Canada. We previously reported that radio conversations between militants in Mariupol were conducted in six foreign languages. In the case of further resistance, they will all be eliminated.

▫️Since the start of the special military operation, the Kiev nationalist regime has brought 6,824 foreign mercenaries from 63 countries to Ukraine.

▫️The largest group came from Poland - 1,717 people. About 1,500 mercenaries came from the US, Canada and also Romania. From the UK and Georgia, each up to 300 people.

▫️193 people arrived from Turkish-controlled areas of the Syrian Arab Republic.

▫️The majority of the mercenaries are now deployed in Ukrainian groups in Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Nikolaev and Mariupol. Their deployment in the groups is handled by the "regional coordination headquarters" of the so-called "International Legion of Defence of Ukraine" in Belaya Tserkov city.

▫️As a result of the hostilities, the number of mercenaries has steadily declined and currently stands at 4,877.

▫️Russian Armed Forces have eliminated 1,035 foreign mercenaries in combat operations. Another 912 mercenaries refused to take part in the hostilities and escaped from the country.

❗️Let me remind you that foreign mercenaries do not have the status of "combatants" under International Humanitarian Law. They came to Ukraine to make money by killing Slavs. So the best that can happen to them is criminal liability and long terms of imprisonment.

📌 Part 1

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⚔️ On April 17, 1944, the Red Army liberated right-bank Ukraine from the Nazi invaders, having completed the Dnieper-Carpathian offensive.

The Red Army victory in western Ukraine invigorated the national liberation movement in central and southeastern Europe considerably. The frontline was pushed back closer to food, oil and other raw material sources that were vital for Germany.

☝️ The success of Soviet troops had huge international political repercussions. Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria started looking for ways to withdraw from the war, while the Soviet Union’s allies expedited preparations for landing their troops in France.

Here's how the Western mainstream media and politicians whitewash the neo-Nazi #Azov Battalion, that has committed countless atrocities and crimes, targeting & killing civilians outright and using them as "human shield" (watch Mariupol residents give first-hand accounts). From terrorists to "patriots" in the eye of Western media.

📹 Donald Courter / @rtnews

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While awaiting a response from Boris Johnson on his future, 🇬🇧 UK national Aiden Aslin (aka Cossack Gundi) also speaks about his neo-Nazi “comrades” from Azov and the tactics they’ve been using in Mariupol.

It’s no surprise that they were abducting and torturing civilians, not to mention using them as “human shield”.

🗓 The Convention on Diplomatic Relations was adopted on this day 6️⃣1️⃣ years ago, in Vienna. It is one of the main international treaties offering a legal framework for diplomatic relations.

🌐 All UN member states, except Palau and South Sudan, signed and ratified the Convention.

📜 The Convention contains rules related to the appointment and seniority of heads of missions and members of diplomatic staff, declaring a member of a diplomatic mission persona non grata, ensuring the security of embassies and consulates, etc. A considerable part of the Convention is devoted to diplomatic privileges and immunities.

▪️ Unfortunately, the provisions of the Convention today are often violated by the Western nations' authorities.

💬 #Zakharova: Our diplomatic property was confiscated in the United States - five large diplomatic facilities. They were seized from us in violation of the Vienna Convention and common sense, and most importantly, in violation of US law.

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🇷🇺🇩🇿 Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with the President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune

The leaders of the two states have exchanged congratulations on the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations’ establishment, celebrated this year, noting stable onward development of friendship ties between Russia and Algeria.

🔸Intent to continue the bilateral coordination in the OPEC+ format and within the framework of Gas Exporting Countries Forum has been confirmed.

🔸Concern has been expressed in connection with the escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, the importance of stepping up international efforts in the Middle Eastern settlement has been underlined.

🔸Situation in Ukraine has also been touched upon.

The Russian Defence Ministry has reliable data on the true losses of the Ukrainian army, the national guard and joined foreign mercenaries.

❗️As of today, the real documented irreplacable losses of the Ukrainian side amount to 23,367 people.

📑The documents available to the Russian Defence Ministry also indicate a large number of deserted servicemen, wounded and missing.

We publish separate data on the losses of the national guard of Ukraine, obtained from real Ukrainian documents. They disclose information about significant losses among the military personnel of military unit 3057 and the punishers of the Azov special purpose detachment that is part of it (as of March 29, 2022).

Data on combat and non-combat losses in military unit 3057 and circumstances of soldiers' deaths:
📌 Part 1
📌 Part 2
📌 Part 3

Data on the losses of military personnel of military unit 3057 due to injury or trauma:
📌 Part 1
📌 Part 2
📌 Part 3
📌 Part 4

The criminal Kiev regime does not recognize its losses, with this publication we prove once again that we are showing the truth!

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🕯 Руководство и коллектив Министерства иностранных дел России с глубоким прискорбием узнали о кончине видного государственного деятеля современности, бывшего директора Службы внешней разведки, первого Заместителя Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации, Чрезвычайного и Полномочного Посла Вячеслава Ивановича Трубникова.

Вячеслав Иванович был действительно масштабной личностью. Его жизненный путь – пример честного, доблестного служения Отечеству. Где бы ни трудился В.И.#Трубников – будь то во внешней разведке или на Смоленской площади – он неизменно способствовал продвижению и защите национальных интересов, в целом укреплению безопасности Родины. Его заслуги получили самое широкое признание и по праву отмечены многочисленными наградами.

🕯 Отечественная дипломатическая служба понесла тяжелую утрату. Мы сохраним светлую память о Вячеславе Ивановиче. Выражаем искренние соболезнования его родным и близким.

#ПамятиДипломатов

⚡️Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation:

▫️Taking into account the catastrophic situation at the Azovstal metallurgical plant in the city of Mariupol, from 14:00 (Moscow time) on April 19, 2022 the Russian Armed Forces have opened a humanitarian corridor for the withdrawal of Ukrainian servicemen and militants of nationalist formations who voluntarily laid down their arms.

▫️For this purpose, a ceasefire has been introduced, any hostilities have been stopped, units of the Russian Armed Forces and formations of the Donetsk People's Republic have been withdrawn to a safe distance along the entire perimeter of Azovstal.

▫️In the immediate vicinity of the metallurgical plant, three humanitarian convoys are deployed in three directions:
🔹the first one is from the western direction on Shevchenko street;
🔹the second is from the eastern direction on Pobeda avenue;
🔹the third is from the north direction on Taganrogskaya street.

▫️Each humanitarian convoy consists of 30 buses and cars for transporting people, 10 ambulances with medical and nursing teams. In addition, meeting points and temporary accommodation have been deployed in all three directions, food and primary medical care facilities have been organized.

▫️On all routes of movement of humanitarian convoys, the Russian Armed Forces, together with the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic, strictly observe the ceasefire.

▫️Once again, we call on the official authorities of Kiev to show prudence, to give appropriate instructions to the militants about ending senseless resistance and leaving the hotbed of resistance. But realizing that the commanders of Ukrainian units may not receive such orders and commands from the Kiev authorities, we urge them to make such a decision on their own and lay down their arms.

❗️I would like to emphasize that the leadership of the Russian Federation guarantees the preservation of life, complete safety and the provision of qualified medical care to all those who have laid down their weapons. Russia has repeatedly, including through the surrender of Ukrainian marines who have laid down their arms and surrendered in practice, confirmed its humane attitude towards prisoners of war and its full compliance with the norms of international humanitarian law. And this time the Russian side guarantees compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.

▫️This statement was brought to the Ukrainian side through the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine Vereshchuk Irina.

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