Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinyan are having talks in Novo-Ogaryovo

The President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Armenia exchanged greetings on the 30th anniversary of Russia-Armenia diplomatic relations.

🔹Armenia is Russia's important economic partner, with mutual trade having grown 12.8% in 2021.
🔹The talks will focus on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.

Nikol Pashinyan noted Russia's contribution to ensuring stability and security in Nagorno-Karabakh.

🇷🇺Today at 15:12 Moscow time, Sarmat, land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, was successfully launched from a silo at the Plesetsk state testing cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Region.

🚀The launch objectives have been met in full.

▫️The design characteristics during all phases of its flight are confirmed. The training combat sections arrived in the target area at Kura training ground on Kamchatka Peninsula.

▫️Flight tests of the prospective heavy-lift missile with a dividing warhead made it possible to assess the correctness of the design and technical solutions used during the development of Sarmat missile system.

▫️This launch is the first in the state test programme. After the completion of the testing programme, Sarmat missile system will enter service with Strategic Missile Forces.

▫️At the Uzhurskiy missile formation in Krasnoyarsk Territory, preparations are underway to rearm the main missile regiment with the new missile system. Promising Sarmat missile system will replace Voyevoda.

🔹Sarmat system is a product solely of Russian industry cooperation. The missile's mass and energy characteristics have expanded its range of weaponry, both in the number of warheads and in types, including gliding hypersonic section.

🔹The new missile is capable of hitting targets at long ranges using a variety of flight trajectories.

🔹Sarmat missile has unique characteristics that allow it to be guaranteed to overcome any existing and promising anti-missile defence systems.

🔹Sarmat is the most powerful missile with the world's longest distance to hit targets, which will significantly enhance the combat power of our country's strategic nuclear forces.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 20, 2022)

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💬⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Boris Johnson has urged the Russian government to treat the Briton detained in Mariupol while fighting on the side of the Ukrainian government forces “humanely and compassionately.”

Here is what we have to say in this respect.

Boris, we know that you personally and your Government have disavowed the British subjects who have fallen victim to British propaganda and went to Ukraine as mercenaries to kill people there.

Don’t pretend to be worried. You are utterly unconcerned about the fate of Britons in trouble. They didn’t drink champagne with you at Downing Street, and so they can wait for your protection till kingdom come.

I would like to tell the following to those Britons who are concerned about their compatriots: Don’t worry, Russia is taking care of them. They are given food and drink, as well as any other assistance they may need, just as the other foreigners who have surrendered or have been detained.

Unlike the Ukrainian fighters who brutally kill prisoners and torture civilians, the Russian Armed Forces are committed to humanitarian law. If there were no media censorship in Britain, everyone there would know this.

At the same time, we urge the British authorities to treat the citizens of Ukraine “humanely and compassionately,” as Boris Johnson said, by stopping the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. The more weapons London is sending to Ukraine, the more citizens of Ukraine die as a result. But the BBC will never tell Britons about that.

⚡️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.

💬 You must offer all those who have not laid down their weapons to do so. Russia guarantees them their lives and dignity as per the relevant international legal instruments. All the wounded will get medical assistance.

You successfully completed the combat effort to liberate Mariupol. Let me congratulate you on this occasion, and please convey my congratulations to the troops.

We have to <...> consider ways of perpetuating the memory of those of our comrades who displayed heroism and sacrificed their lives so that our people in Donbass live in peace and to enable Russia, our country, to live in peace.

📹Интервью Посла России в Канаде О.В.Степанова телеканалу «Россия 24».

⚡️ Заявление @MID_Russia о введении персональных санкций
в отношении ряда канадских граждан

🇷🇺🇨🇦 В ответ на постоянно вводимые официальной Оттавой антироссийские санкции, включая запрет на въезд в Канаду и иные дискриминационные меры против российских официальных лиц, военных, экспертов и журналистов, очередная группа канадских граждан вносится в «стоп-лист» на постоянной основе.

Указанным лицам (61 чел.), в числе которых – высшие государственные чиновники, действующие и отставные военнослужащие, представители экспертного сообщества и ведущих СМИ, непосредственно причастные к выработке, обоснованию и реализации русофобского курса правящего в Канаде режима, бессрочно запрещается въезд в Российскую Федерацию.

👉 Поименный перечень

В ближайшее время планируется новое объявление об очередном расширении российского «стоп-листа» в порядке ответной реакции на враждебные действия поддерживающего пробандеровский режим в Киеве Правительства Канады.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 21, 2022)

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🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Defence launches a new multimedia historical project "Mariupol. Liberation", dedicated to one of the most important episodes of the Donbass operation in 1943

📑The projects contains operational documents of the Soviet command, revealing the plan of offensive operations, including:

▫️the famous Mariupol landing;

▫️journals of combat units and formations that liberated the city;

▫️awarding materials on the Red Army and Red Fleet soldiers who took part in the battle for Mariupol;

▫️as well as information on atrocities committed by Nazi invaders against civilians and Red Army prisoners, showing the bloody continuity between the Nazis of those times and today's Ukrainian radicals.

🗂 Documents

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #archives
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Минобороны России запускает новый мультимедийный исторический раздел «Мариуполь. Освобождение», посвященный одному из важнейших эпизодов Донбасской операции 1943 года.

В нем представлены 🔽

🔹 оперативные документы советского командования, раскрывающие замысел наступательных операций, в том числе знаменитого Мариупольского десанта;

🔹 журналы боевых частей и соединений, освобождавших город;

🔹 наградные материалы на красноармейцев и краснофлотцев, принявших участие в сражении за Мариуполь;

🔹 сведения о зверствах немецко-фашистских оккупантов в отношении горожан и пленных военнослужащих Красной Армии, свидетельствующие о кровавой преемственности между тогдашними нацистами и сегодняшними украинскими радикалами.

Документы 🗂

#Минобороны #ПомнимВсе #ДенаZификация #ПредковДостойны @mod_russia

🇷🇺🇪🇺📞 President Vladimir Putin had a lengthy telephone conversation with President of the European Council Charles Michel.

The leaders discussed in detail the developments in Ukraine. Charles Michel told Vladimir Putin about his contacts with the Ukrainian leadership during his recent visit to Kiev.

Attention was drawn to the irresponsible statements by EU officials about the need to resolve the situation in Ukraine by force of arms and their neglect of numerous war crimes of Ukrainian security agencies. It was noted that Brussels could influence the Kiev authorities, compelling them to stop the massive shelling of residential areas in Donbass and refrain from other crude violations of international humanitarian law.

❗️ In addition, the leaders of the majority of EU countries are taking actions that provoke overt Russophobia, which is manifest in the cultural, humanitarian and sports areas.

International concern forced the Ukrainian Security Service to show that 🇨🇱/🇺🇸 reporter Gonzalo Lira, whom the nationalists detained on April 15, is alive!

However, he doesn’t have access to his cellphone and social media accounts, gagged on what he can say publicly, and not allowed to leave Kharkov.

In a way, he got “lucky”. A number of his fellow journalists, who received “the Ukrainian treatment of the free press”, will never be seen again.

FULL VIDEO (courtesy of “The Duran”).

The founder of the infamous Azov battalion Andrei Biletsky thinks that killing civilians during an “Immortal Regiment” parade (i.a. with a “Tochka-U” missile) would make for a “funny video”.

The following clip is meant for those, who dismiss the idea that 🇺🇦 nationalists can and do kill their own citizens.

💬Ambassador Stepanov to Sputnik news agency: We understand that on a philosophical level the denigration of Russia emanates not simply from the strategic need of propaganda and information warfare. It is deeply rooted in the farthest corner of the Western soul.

https://sputniknews.com/20220422/denigration-of-russia-not-just-strategic-need-springs-from-depths-of-western-soul-envoy-says-1094980004.html

📰Read Ambassador Stepanov's article "We know the truth and not afraid of it. Do and are you?".

https://telegra.ph/WE-KNOW-THE-TRUTH-AND-NOT-AFRAID-OF-IT-DO-AND-ARE-YOU-04-22

‼️ Read extracts from the statement of the Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich “On the continuing crimes of Ukraine against civilians
with the support of the Western Alliance of OSCE participating States”, (meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, 22 April 2022):



🔺Ukrainian armed formations continue mass crimes against the civilian population on the direct orders of the Kiev leadership and its Western sponsors

🔺Once again, we emphasize that all responsibility for the difficult humanitarian situation in the combat zones lies with the Ukrainian right-wing radical nationalist battalions, which use the civilian population as a "human shield"

🔺The leadership of 🇺🇦 Ukraine continues to sabotage the regime of open humanitarian corridors, regularly provided by the Russian military. Refugee columns are literally daily subjected to intense fire from units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist battalions.

🔺Evidence of the atrocities of the 🇺🇦 Ukrainian armed groups against civilians is multiplying. Bodies of 26 dead civilian victims of shelling by the Ukrainian national battalion "Azov" were found in hospital No. 4 in Mariupol.

🔺Russian servicemen discovered the headquarters of the "territorial defense" unit in the Kherson school. The children's educational institution was used as a stronghold with ammunition and weapons