Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted Orthodox Christians and all Russians celebrating Easter Sunday ☦️

💬 President Vladimir #Putin: This Feast of feasts, Easter brings Orthodox Christians and all Russians celebrating Easter Sunday together around high moral ideals and values, inspiring the best in people, as well as belief in the triumph of life, goodness and justice.

It is important that we note the creative, positive and fruitful efforts by the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian denominations to preserve our rich historical, cultural and spiritual traditions, as well as to promote family values and educate the younger generation. Of course, Christian organisations deserve special credit for their community service and charity undertakings, and their commitment to helping those in need of care and support in these challenging times.

#EasterSunday

Президент России В.В.Путин поздравил православных христиан и всех граждан России, отмечающих Пасху – Светлое Христово Воскресение ☦️

💬 В.В.#Путин: Этот великий праздник объединяет православных христиан, всех граждан России, отмечающих Воскресение Христово, вокруг высоких нравственных идеалов и ценностей, пробуждает в людях самые светлые чувства, веру в торжество жизни, добра и справедливости.

Важно отметить созидательную, плодотворную работу Русской православной церкви, других христианских конфессий, направленную на сбережение наших богатейших исторических, культурных, духовных традиций, укрепление института семьи, воспитание подрастающего поколения. И конечно, самого искреннего признания заслуживает социальная, благотворительная деятельность христианских религиозных организаций, их стремление оказывать действенную помощь тем, кто в наше сложное время нуждается в заботе и поддержке.

#Пасха #РПЦ

The Embassy of Russia in Canada wishes Happy Easter to all Orthodox Christians!
Христос Воскресе! Christ is Risen! ☀️☦️❤️

▪️Since the coup d'état in 2014, Ukraine has plunged into the abyss of political chaos.

👉 Learn more about military and other crimes of the Kiev regime - from 2014 to 2022 - in our video. Hard facts & testimonies that the "collective West" & the Kiev regime prefer to hush up...

📆 The United Nations Conference on International Organisation opened 77 years ago in San Francisco.

🇺🇳 Held between April 25 and June 26, 1945, the San Francisco Conference resulted in the establishment of a universal international organisation for the maintenance of international peace and security to be known as the United Nations.

ℹ️ The most active participation in the work of the conference, along with the delegation of the USSR, was taken by the Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSR. This became possible thanks to the efforts of Soviet diplomacy, which achieved the inclusion of the USSR and the BSSR among the founding countries of the UN.

❗️ At the time, the San Francisco Conference was the largest international gathering in the then history of diplomacy, demonstrating the unity of the international community in the wake of the hardships it suffered during World War II.

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⚡️ Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response

▫️The leadership of the Russian Federation once again confirms the previously opened and permanently operating for the 36th day (from March 21, 2022) round-the-clock humanitarian corridor from Azovstal metallurgical plant for the evacuation of civilians (workers, women and children), whose alleged presence in the underground structures of the plant is publicly announced by the Kiev authorities.

▫️At the same time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic from 14:00 (Moscow time) on April 25, 2022 unilaterally cease any hostilities, units are withdrawn to a safe distance and ensure the withdrawal of the specified category of citizens in any directions they choose.

▫️The actual readiness of the Ukrainian side to launch a humanitarian operation is indicated by raising white flags around the perimeter or in certain directions of Azovstal.

▫️The Russian Federation publicly and officially declares that there are no obstacles to the exit of civilians from Azovstal, except for the principled decision of the Kiev authorities themselves and the commanders of nationalist formations to continue to hold civilians as a "human shield".

▫️If civilians are still at the metallurgical plant, then we demand that the Kiev authorities immediately give the appropriate order to the commanders of nationalist formations for their release.

▫️This statement will be continuously brought to the Ukrainian formations at Azovstal via radio channels at intervals of every 30 minutes.

▫️Through operational communication channels, this statement is immediately brought to the Ukrainian side through the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.

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

7️⃣7️⃣ years ago, on April 25, 1945, Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, marking an important step toward the end of World War II in Europe.

❗️ There was a lot of symbolism attached to the meeting on the Elbe. It served as a harbinger of Hitler’s approaching defeat, as well as the apotheoses of Allied friendship in their struggle against Nazi Germany. Referred to later as the Spirit of the Elbe, the spirit of unity in fighting a common enemy carried the promise that radically new principles would guide post-war cooperation. With so many differences separating them, the representatives of the two countries solemnly promised to do everything to prevent a new war.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 On April 25, 2020, the Russian and US Presidents issued a joint statement commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe. “The #SpiritOfTheElbe is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust, and cooperate in pursuit of a greater cause.”

📌 Remarks to the Press by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy on risks of WMD provocations in Ukraine.

🔹 The situation is very alarming. Our Ministry of Defence keeps collecting information that the Kiev regime backed by the US is preparing staged provocations in order to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons.

🔹 Even if we set aside a proven fact that Russia does not possess any chemical or biological weapons, what is the rationale for using them in Ukraine, in the close proximity to the Russian border?

❗️ The only beneficiary here is the Kiev regime & radical groups, which use terror and intimidation of civilians as a method of warfare.

📹Watch: Neo-Nazis who planned the murder of prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov on the instructions of Kiev, were detained by the Russian Federal Security Service.

Source: @sputniknewsus

🇺🇦claims there’re civilians at Azovstal but rejects 🇷🇺 humanitarian initiatives. Despite 🇷🇺 proposal to civ-evac, 🇺🇦 again disrupted humanitarian operation. As of 20:00 today (MSK) no one used safe corridor. If civs are really there, Zelensky’s henchmen use them as human shields.

⭐️ On April 26, 1945, the #RedArmy liberated #Brno, the industrial centre of Czechoslovakia, turned into a stronghold of the military power of the Third Reich.

About 17 thousand Soviet soldiers gave their lives during the Bratislava-Brno operation. #WeRemember

📹Video records of 🇺🇦 military's inhuman treatment of 🇷🇺 POWs were shared with Global Affairs Canada and 🇨🇦media.
We urge international community to condemn and investigate war crimes carried out by 🇺🇦 nationalists.

💬 #Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

Just a few days ago, the former US defence, intelligence and security officials (once served, always serving, as the saying goes) called on the US legislators not to hamper the omnipotent IT corporations. In an open letter, they called on Congress to refrain from passing legislation that would limit Google, Meta and the like in their digital dictate.

Their rationale is quite straightforward: “A battle brewing between authoritarianism and democracy.” Authoritarianism, meaning, among others, Russia, uses cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns to bring about a change in the global order. At the same time, democracy, meaning the US, together with the champions of free speech embodied by US technology platforms “have given the world the chance to see the real story of the Russian military’s horrific human rights abuses in Ukraine.” They recommend a traditional set of methods: censorship and digital reprisals. It turns out that the intelligence community believes that you can build democracy and achieve free speech by silencing all those who disagree and by deleting from the information space everything at odds with what is being imposed from above, including by the intelligence community they represent.

There is no need to search for any further evidence on who was behind Facebook’s decision not to delete extremist materials targeting Russians.

It has to be noted that the ranks of the national security champions include prominent members of the US establishment, including high-profile figures like former Secretary of Defence and former CIA Director, as well as member of the Oracle board Leon E. Panetta, former Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Frances F. Townsend, former Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson, and several other equally notorious figures.

You may ask what do the representatives of the US security and intelligence community have to do with all this? Why have they decided to take a stand on such a hot topic?

Let me explain.

Just like all other representatives of the American “deep state,” they have been successful not only in their public offices, but also in the private sector. Many of them own stock in major corporations or sit on their boards, including in the IT industry. This is how the US government, the defence, intelligence and security apparatus, corporations and major media holdings came to form a single whole. This makes it virtually impossible to understand where free speech begins and where it ends. Most importantly, this is what they refer to as democracy.

By the way, Frances F. Townsend and James R. Clapper used to work for CNN and CBS. This explains a lot.

Apart from their similar career patterns, what the intelligence community members share in common is a keen focus on our country. They all went to great lengths to spread fakes on what they misrepresented as Russia’s meddling in the US election. Panetta and Clapper went as far as become the central figures on the Advisory Board of the Committee to Investigate Russia, a nonprofit resource.

Some members of the US security establishment just cannot get over their fixation on taking Russia out. This is merely a pretext, a veil for ensuring that technology monopolies retain their unchallenged sway over the public opinion in the United States and around the world. The vociferous and at times appealing slogans about democracy conceal pragmatic and cynical calculations.

It is at this particular point in history that Elon Musk went shopping online…

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🇷🇺🇿🇦 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa on Freedom Day.

✉️ The message reads, in part:

“Relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa are growing in the spirit of strategic partnership.

The two countries have established a substantive political dialogue, as well as productive cooperation in the trade, economic, research, technology, and humanitarian fields. The coordination of Moscow and Pretoria’s efforts at the UN, BRICS, the G20 and other multilateral platforms yields a good return.

I am confident that with joint efforts, we will further advance the entire scope of mutually beneficial Russian-South African ties. This fully meets the interests of our friendly peoples and goes in line with strengthening international security and stability.”

#RussiaRSA

🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry

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

💥High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missile strikes destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant.

✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 59 military facilities of Ukraine overnight.

▫️Among them: 50 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, 4 weapons and ammunition depots near Chervonoe, Dolgenkoe, Pashkoe and Veseloe, and 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near Slavyansk.

▫️As a result of the strikes, over 120 nationalists and 35 armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.

💥Missile troops and artillery performed 573 firing tasks during the night.

▫️Destroyed: 432 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment, 67 artillery positions, 2 batteries of multiple rocket launchers, as well as 7 ammunition depots.

💥Russian air defence means shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Alexandrovka, Balakleya, Bryanka, Zaporozhskoe, Izium, Kapitolovka, Peremoga, Petrovka, Popasnoe, Proletarskoe, Trudolyubovka, including 2 Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs near Kalesnikovka and Krasny Liman.

▫️In addition, 1 Ukrainian tactical missile Tochka-U was shot down over Ilyichevka.

📊In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 607 unmanned aerial vehicles, 273 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,596 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 296 multiple rocket launchers, 1,134 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 2,413 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
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💬 #Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

Information bomb 💣

During the recent G7 and G20 finance ministers’ meetings, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland pushed for the exclusion of Russia from global financial institutions and international organisations.

At the same time, Ottawa stepped up its arms deliveries to Ukraine, including the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifles, used by the Canadian armed forces.

All this is presented as a response to alleged new evidence of atrocities perpetrated by the Russian military. Speaking ahead of the G20 meeting, Chrystia Freeland said: “War crimes have been committed in Ukraine. The evidence that we've seen … is absolutely horrifying.”

This would have looked like a piece of clumsy fake news, if it were not a bloody re-enactment of what happened during World War II.

Eighty years before Bucha, Krakivs'ki Visti – a major Ukrainian-language newspaper in Poland, censored and managed as it was by the Third Reich, published an article on NKVD killers torturing people to death and leaving them lying on Lvov’s streets after the Red Army withdrew from the city (Krakivs'ki Visti, July 6, 1941). The article placed special emphasis on the ethnicity of the victims. On July 8, 1941, it reported that the Bolsheviks executed 1,500 ethnic Ukrainians in Lutsk by firing at them with machine guns. The Nazi Reich accused the internationalist Soviet Union of genocide.

The Krakivs'ki Visti newspaper was well aware of its role in history. In the Ukrainian context, it spread Nazi Germany’s propaganda around the world. This is what we read in black and white on the front page of its July 6, 1941 edition, in an article titled “Winning instead of crying” (B. Khalit): “Regarding this awful disaster [the pogroms], on the plus side there is the fact that the entire world has learned about these horrible pogroms. Losing tens of thousands of responsible, proactive citizen is very painful. They cannot be replaced. The impact that these pogroms had on propaganda pales in comparison with the losses. However, since these people died simply for being responsible Ukrainians and loving Ukraine more than anything else, we must make sure that did not spill their blood in vain; we must use it to do good… We must use is as moral capital for our people… We now have this opportunity, and a sad one at that, but still an opportunity which we must not miss. The Jewish mafia in all its incarnations, from communist to Masonic, has long removed the word ‘Ukraine’ from the press or done everything possible to denigrate it. This is why, when the name of our nation once again makes headlines in major titles, we cannot miss this opportunity no matter how tragic its context.”

What a flashback! We are witnessing the very same situation right now.

Once again, Ukraine makes headlines, while we face groundless accusations of seeking to “cancel” Ukraine just as they cancel everything Russian. Once again, the Nazis use propaganda and a tragedy to denigrate Russia. Once again, they use this as an “opportunity, no matter how tragic.” They have not produced any evidence, hoping that eliciting an emotional response will suffice. Once again, people’s lives become the collateral damage in the propaganda games to win over public opinion. This is what Nazis always do.

Now for the most important part.

As a major Ukrainian-language Nazi propaganda tool, the Krakivs'ki Visti newspaper had Mikhailo Khomyak, a collaborationist journalist from Ukraine, as its editor.

Apart from his criminal record, there is only one notable fact in his biography. Mikhailo Khomyak was the grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister.

You can now return to the top of the page and read this post one more time with fresh insight.

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Kiev-controlled militants in Ukraine torture, rape and murder ethnic Russians, Russian speakers and anyone who doesn’t support the regime.
Ukrainian forces employ human shield tactic, indiscriminately shell residential areas, hospitals, schools, kindergartens. Evidence is online for all who eager to learn the truth.
Kiev regime cynically uses victims’ bodies to stage scenery for photo and media ops and then to blame Russia. Always inquire: Who benefits?
The answer is self-evident: only the criminal anti-national regime in Kiev. Using all disgusting and dirty means to gain compassion, money and weapons from the West.
Western governments and security services are keen in false-flag methods. Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam, Grenada invasion, bombardments of Yugoslavia, “WMD” in Iraq to name a few.
And now, they are concealing from the public and distorting reality about Ukraine’s government atrocities. Narrative is blunt and primitive: blame Russia, whitewash Kiev regime. But truth always surfaces.